Literacy and capital in immigrant youths' online networks across countries

Learning, Media and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 488-506

  Lam, Wan Shun Eva ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent literacy; digital literacy; migration; social capital; transnationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908608384     PISSN: 17439884     EISSN: 17439892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2014.942665     Document Type: Article

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