Transcultural digital literacies: Cross-border connections and self-representations in an online forum

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 199-219

  Kim, Grace My Hyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; College university students; Digital media literacies; Ethnography; Linguistics; Multilingualism; New literacies; Popular culture; Qualitative; Semiotics; Sociocultural; Specific media hypertext Internet film music etc

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952332973     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rrq.131     Document Type: Article

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