Staging gender online: Gender plays in Swiss internet relay chats

Discourse and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 765-787

  Rellstab, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Cyber communities; Deconstruction of gender; Doing gender; Internet relay chat

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648981151     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926507082195     Document Type: Article

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