Constructing glocal identities through multilingual writing practices on flickr.com®

International Multilingual Research Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-59

  Lee, Carmen K M ^a   Barton, David ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flickr ; Glocal identities; Language choice; Multilingual literacy practices; Photo sharing; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951839825     PISSN: 19313152     EISSN: 19313160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2011.541331     Document Type: Article

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