'Freshly generated for you, and Barack Obama': How social media represent your life

European Journal of Communication

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 451-466

  Rettberg, Jill Walker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blogs; Cultural templates; Narrative; Self portrait; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449346425     PISSN: 02673231     EISSN: 14603705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0267323109345715     Document Type: Article

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