‘Looking like my favourite Barbie’ – Online Gender Construction of Tween Girls in Estonia and in Sweden

The aim of this article is to analyse how tween girls in Estonia and in Sweden describe and discover their gender identities when selecting profile images for social networking sites (SNSs). To this end, interviews with tweens in Estonia (N=21) and in Sweden (N=31) were carried out. As SNSs largely...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andra Siibak, Patrik Hernwall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tallinn University 2011-10-01
Series:Studies of Transition States and Societies
Subjects:
SNS
Online Access:http://www.tlu.ee/stss/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/erinumber_Siibak.pdf