Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: Teenagers' use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression

New Media and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 393-411

  Livingstone, Sonia ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Affordances; Identity; Online communication; Online risk; Privacy; Social networking sites; Teenagers; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449104752     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444808089415     Document Type: Article

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