Projecting, exposing, revealing self in the digital world: Usernames as a social practice in a Moroccan chatroom

Names

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 201-209

  Hassa, Samira ^a  

^a MANHATTAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chatroom; Identity; Internet; Morocco; Username

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; INTERNET; ISLAMISM; RELIGION;

MOROCCO;

EID: 84867118760     PISSN: 00277738     EISSN: 17562279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0027773812Z.00000000031     Document Type: Article

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