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    Cultural Studies Review

    volume 20 number 1 March 2014

    http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/index

    pp. 12149

    !Mark Cot 2014

    ISSN 1837-8692

    Data Motility

    The Materiality of Big Social Data

    MARK COT

    VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

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