A sign of the times: Looking critically at popular digital writing

Popular Literacies, Childhood and Schooling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 93-108

  Merchant, Guy ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84916991169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203015551     Document Type: Chapter

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