My iPod, my iCon: How and why do images become icons?

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 466-489

  Jenkins, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cult value; Icons; Ipod; Symbolic realism; Visual rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949140068     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295030802468057     Document Type: Review

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