Tweet, Tweet!: Using Live Twitter Chats in Social Work Education

Social Work Education

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 457-468

  Hitchcock, Laurel Iverson ^a   Young, Jimmy A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

new media literacies; social media; Social Work Education; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958539675     PISSN: 02615479     EISSN: 14701227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02615479.2015.1136273     Document Type: Article

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