Outing PlanetOut: Surveillance, gay marketing and internet affinity portals

New Media and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 663-683

  Campbell, John Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberspace; Gay marketing; Internet affinity portals; Surveillance; Target marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644536985     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444805056011     Document Type: Article

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