Adolescents' identity experiments on the internet

New Media and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 383-402

  Valkenburg, Patti M ^a   Schouten, Alexander P ^a   Peter, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chat; Extraversion; Identity; Identity experiments; Instant Messaging; Internet; Introversion; Self presentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444455503     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444805052282     Document Type: Article

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