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Making sense of wearables: new-emerging markets and mediascapes

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Making sense of wearables: new-emerging markets and mediascapes. / Gunnarsdottir, Kristrun; Dijk, Niels van; Fotopoulou, Aristea et al.
Lancaster University, 2014. 32 p.

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Harvard

Gunnarsdottir, K, Dijk, NV, Fotopoulou, A, Guimarães Pereira, Â, O'Riordan, K, Rommetveit, K & Vesnic-Alujevic, L 2014, Making sense of wearables: new-emerging markets and mediascapes. vol. A report on the EPINET Embedding Workshop, Brussels 5 Nov 2013 (EPINET Deliverable D3.2, April 2014), Lancaster University.

APA

Gunnarsdottir, K., Dijk, N. V., Fotopoulou, A., Guimarães Pereira, Â., O'Riordan, K., Rommetveit, K., & Vesnic-Alujevic, L. (2014). Making sense of wearables: new-emerging markets and mediascapes. Lancaster University.

Vancouver

Gunnarsdottir K, Dijk NV, Fotopoulou A, Guimarães Pereira Â, O'Riordan K, Rommetveit K et al. Making sense of wearables: new-emerging markets and mediascapes. Lancaster University, 2014. 32 p.

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