Work of the ‘Unemployed’: A Design Fiction

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Work of the ‘Unemployed’ : A Design Fiction. / Nielsen, Trine Rask; Møller, Naja L. Holten.

Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. EUSSET, 2020. (Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies; No. 2, Vol. 4).

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Harvard

Nielsen, TR & Møller, NLH 2020, Work of the ‘Unemployed’: A Design Fiction. in Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. EUSSET, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies, no. 2, vol. 4, 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - ECSCW 2020, Siegen, Germany, 13/06/2020. https://doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2020_p03

APA

Nielsen, T. R., & Møller, N. L. H. (2020). Work of the ‘Unemployed’: A Design Fiction. In Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work EUSSET. Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies Vol. 4 No. 2 https://doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2020_p03

Vancouver

Nielsen TR, Møller NLH. Work of the ‘Unemployed’: A Design Fiction. In Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. EUSSET. 2020. (Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies; No. 2, Vol. 4). https://doi.org/10.18420/ecscw2020_p03

Author

Nielsen, Trine Rask ; Møller, Naja L. Holten. / Work of the ‘Unemployed’ : A Design Fiction. Proceedings of 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. EUSSET, 2020. (Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies; No. 2, Vol. 4).

Bibtex

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