Flashing Your Phone: Sexting and the Remediation of Teen Sexuality

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 353-369

  Curnutt, Hugh ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Celebrity; Convergence; Remediation; Sexting; Social Media; Texting; Twitter; User Generated Content

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863546951     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463373.2012.688728     Document Type: Article

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