Negotiating identities/queering desires: Coming out online and the remediation of the coming-out story

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1162-1189

  Gray, Mary L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE;

COMPLEX NEGOTIATION; CRITICAL MASS; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; MEDIUM EFFECT; NARRATIVE EVENTS; SOURCE MATERIAL; URBAN SCENES; YOUNG PEOPLES;

VISIBILITY;

EID: 68849084544     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2009.01485.x     Document Type: Article

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