Too close to see: Men, women, and webcams

New Media and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-28

  White, Michele ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cam; Feminism; Film theory; Gaze; Gender; Internet; Spectatorship; Web; Webcam

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037282142     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444803005001901     Document Type: Article

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