Impressions, improvisations and compositions: Reframing children's text production in social network sites

Literacy

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 91-99

  Dowdall, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital literacy practices; Social networking; Text production

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949114187     PISSN: 17414350     EISSN: 17414369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4369.2009.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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