A tale of two doctoral students: Social media tools and hybridised identities

Research in Learning Technology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bennett, Liz ^a   Folley, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blogging; Doctoral students; Liminality; Twitter; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901614382     PISSN: 21567069     EISSN: 21567077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/rlt.v22.23791     Document Type: Article

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