Picturesque wounds: A multimodal analysis of self-injury photographs on Flickr

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Seko, Yukari ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Flickr; Selfinjury; Social media; Visual content analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881588244     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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