The mobile phone = bike shed? children, sex and mobile phones

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 587-604

  Bond, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUFFOLK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

children; mobile phones; risk; self identity; sexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958030986     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810377919     Document Type: Article

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