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Publication details [#56570]

Barton, David and Carmen K. M. Lee. 2012. Redefining Vernacular Literacies in the Age of Web 2.0. Applied Linguistics 33 (3) : 282–298.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

globalization | internet | literacy | vernacular | writing

Language as a subject

Chinese | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

Drawing on the writing activities of multilingual Spanish- and Chinese-speaking users of the photo-sharing site Flickr.com., this paper redefines the notion of vernacular literacies, demonstrating how they are now more valued in a global context.