“It's me. I'm it.”: Defining adolescent sexual identity through relational dialectics in Dawson's creek

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 262-276

  Meyer, Michaela D E ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Dawson's Creek; Gay; Identity; Narrative; Popular culture; Representation; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349095650     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463370309370156     Document Type: Article

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