Bringing sexy back: Reclaiming the body aesthetic via self-shooting

Cyberpsychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tiidenberg, Katrin ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Body; Self identity; Selfies; Sexuality; Visual narrative analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897105080     PISSN: 18027962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5817/CP2014-1-3     Document Type: Article

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