Beyond design and use: How scholars should study intelligent technologies

@article{Bailey2020BeyondDA,  title={Beyond design and use: How scholars should study intelligent technologies},  author={Diane E. Bailey and Stephen R. Barley},  journal={Inf. Organ.},  year={2020},  volume={30},  pages={100286},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:214187921}}

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