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ONLINE NETWORKS AND EMOTIONAL ENERGY

How pro-anorexic websites use interaction ritual chains to (re)form identity

Patricia Maloney Department of Sociology, Yale University, PO Box 208265, New Haven, CT, 06520, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 105-124 | Received 07 Aug 2011, Accepted 06 Jan 2012, Published online: 24 Feb 2012

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