On mobile communication and youth “deviance”: Beyond moral, media and mobile panics

Mobile Media and Communication

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-101

  Lim, Sun Sun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Crime; Juvenile delinquency; Mobile phone; Moral panic; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011715928     PISSN: 20501579     EISSN: 20501587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2050157912459503     Document Type: Article

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