Paradox and Promise: MySpace, Facebook, and the Sociopolitics of Social Networking in the Writing Classroom

Computers and Composition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-47

  Maranto, Gina ^a   Barton, Matt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethics; Facebook; Myspace; profiles; social networking; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149161097     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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