The cyberself: The self-ing project goes online, symbolic interaction in the digital age

New Media and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-110

  Robinson, Laura ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Goffman; Internet user population; Mead; Postmodernism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846428859     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444807072216     Document Type: Conference Paper

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