Digital spaces, material traces: How matter comes to matter in online performances of gender, sexuality and embodiment

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 531-547

  van Doorn, Niels ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

digital spaces; embodiment; gender; materiality; sexuality; user generated content; virtuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955915449     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443711398692     Document Type: Article

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