Naming the Ghost: Self-Naming, Pseudonyms, and Identities of Phantoms on Zimbabwean Twitter
In Zimbabwean online spaces, especially Twitter, use of phantom names is widespread. It is arguable that this is partially a result of the country’s repressive political environment. It is the names that the nameless Twitter characters select and the motivations for using specific names that are the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-08-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051211035694 |