'Technology, hormones, and stupidity': The affective politics of teenage sexting

Sexualities

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 665-689

  Angelides, Steven ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescent sexuality; agency; performativity of emotion; sex panic; sexting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883379745     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460713487289     Document Type: Article

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