'Like immigrants': Negotiating power in the face of the home computer

New Media and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 220-238

  Ribak, Rivka ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boyhood; Computer mediated communication (CMC); Dependence; Domestication; Expertise; Families; Fatherhood; Male identity construction; Masculinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035636023     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14614440122226065     Document Type: Article

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