Performing and undoing identity online: Social networking, identity theories and the incompatibility of online profiles and friendship regimes

Convergence

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-193

  Cover, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Friending; identity; media theory; network; profile; social networking; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860373576     PISSN: 13548565     EISSN: 17487382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354856511433684     Document Type: Article

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