The performance of a ludic self on social network(ing) sites

The Language of Social Media: Identity and Community on the Internet

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 23-45

  Deumert, Ana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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EID: 84920679796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137029317     Document Type: Chapter

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