Social Media in an Intercultural Writing Context: Creating Spaces for Student Negotiations

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Author(s): Ma Pilar Milagros García (Koç University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 18
Source title: Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Gustav Verhulsdonck (University of Texas at El Paso, USA)and Marohang Limbu (Michigan State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4916-3.ch010

Keywords: Communications Theory / Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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The current research study is part of a larger project that aims to analyze ways in which first year intercultural writing students interpret/understand the impact of social media on their composition practices, critical thinking processes and knowledge negotiations processes. In particular, the current chapter attempts to understand how first year intercultural writing students reflect on and assess the ways social media has helped them practice and or/acquire more critical thinking skills.

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