Scholars in an increasingly open and digital world: imagined audiences and their impact on scholars’ online participation

Learning, Media and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 17-30

  Veletsianos, George ^a   Shaw, Ashley ^a,b  

^a ROYAL ROADS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Imagined audiences; networked scholarship; online networks; qualitative research; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016010055     PISSN: 17439884     EISSN: 17439892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2017.1305966     Document Type: Article

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