Feminist HCI meets facebook: Performativity and social networking sites

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 422-429

  Van House, Nancy A ^a  

^a UC Berkeley School of Information   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical HCI; Facebook; Feminist HCI; Feminist theory; Performance; Social networking sites

Indexed keywords

PRODUCT DESIGN; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FACEBOOK; FEMINIST THEORY; INTERACTION DESIGN; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMATIVITY; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (SNSS);

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 79958755088     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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