Desperately seeking sameness

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-153

  Karlsson, Lena ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diary blog reading; Identification; Online self representation; Reception studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249335602     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680770701287019     Document Type: Article

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