How material are cyberbodies? Broadband internet and embodied subjectivity

Crime, Media, Culture

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-330

  Gies, Lieve ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body; Communication; Identity; Internet; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249690816     PISSN: 17416590     EISSN: 17416604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741659008096369     Document Type: Article

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