'What's on your mind?' Writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation

New Media and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 823-839

  Sauter, Theresa ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Facebook; governance; psychologisation; public; self formation; social networking sites; technique of self; techno social; writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904409952     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444813495160     Document Type: Article

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