'Why do white people have thin lips?' Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes via auto-complete search forms

Critical Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 187-204

  Baker, Paul ^a   Potts, Amanda ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ethnicity; gender; Google; identity; religion; representation; sexuality; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875954200     PISSN: 17405904     EISSN: 17405912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2012.744320     Document Type: Article

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