Toward an affinity space methodology: Considerations for literacy research

English Teaching

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 44-58

  Lammers, Jayne C ^a   Curwood, Jen Scott ^b   Magnifico, Alecia Marie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Affinity spaces; Literacy; Methodology; Multimodality; New literacies; New media; Online participation; Research design; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864039114     PISSN: 11758708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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