Computers and Composition Mar 2020

Tracing Ecologies of Code Literacy and Constraint in Emojis as Multimodal Public Pedagogy

Kellie Gray Texas Tech University ; Steve Holmes Texas Tech University
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Computers and Composition
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2020-03-01
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10.1016/j.compcom.2020.102552
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