“The Question Exists, but You Don’t Exist With It”: Strategic Anonymity in the Social Lives of Adolescents

Social Media and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Ellison, Nicole B ^a   Blackwell, Lindsay ^a   Lampe, Cliff ^a   Trieu, Penny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; adolescent development; anonymity; anonymous interaction; question asking; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031907257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20563051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2056305116670673     Document Type: Article

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