The Critique of YouTube-based Vernacular Discourse: A Case Study of YouTube's Asian Community

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 391-406

  Guo, Lei ^a   Lee, Lorin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian Asian American; hybridity; rhetoric criticism; vernacular discourse; YouTube

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887995581     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295036.2012.755048     Document Type: Article

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