Architecture of the personal interactive homepage: Constructing the self through MySpace

New Media and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1103-1119

  Davis, Jenny ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

MySpace; Personal interactive homepage; Self construction; Symbolic interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349303124     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444809354212     Document Type: Article

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