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Autistic adults’ experiences with social media: Creativity, Connectedness, and Control
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Adapting digital networks and resources for autistic users. A toolkit for the third and public sector
(Queen Mary University of London, 2023)This toolkit offers practical support to any third and public sector professional who wants to adapt their use of digital platforms. -
Understanding Autistic Adults’ Use of Social Media
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Autistic sociality on Twitter: Enacted affordances and affiliation strategies
(SAGE Publications, 2022-08-01)While there is an increasing focus on the use of online networks among autistic users, how autistic adults communicate in social networking sites remains underexplored. The article puts forward an argument for combining ... -
How can we design social media to be inclusive?
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China Pushed the Pink Tide and the Pink Tide Pulled China: Intertwining Economic Interests and Ideology in Ecuador and Bolivia (2005–2014)
(2020-12-01)This article examines the rise of leftist ideology in Ecuador and Bolivia in light of their deepening economic relations with China from 2005 to 2014. First, it reveals that market trends account for trade fluctuations but ... -
Top-down or bottom-up? Employing a middle-ground approach in designing a uk academic writing course for advanced chinese graduates
(2020-01-01)This article documents the academic writing course design process for advanced Chinese learners aiming to pursue postgraduate degrees in business-related fields at their respective target universities in the UK. Four holders ... -
Actions Speak Louder than Words: China’s Consultative Peacekeeping in Africa
(2019-09-03)Existing concepts (e.g. ‘non-interference’ and ‘pragmatism’) remain too vague to provide explanations for China’s increasingly assertive security policy. To avoid this pitfall, this article adopts a narrower focus on Chinese ... -
‘The página is still blanca’: reading the blanks in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
This article reads Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao via its trope of ‘páginas en blanco’ in order to argue that its creolised language, stylistic devices, and structural organisation mimic the experience ... -
(l) as a sociolinguistic variable in Francoprovençal
This article argues for (l) as a sociolinguistic variable in Francoprovençal: (l) refers to variable palatalisation of /l/ in obstruent+lateral onset clusters (/kl, ɡl, pl, bl, fl/), a feature that has long been the subject ... -
Conflicted selves: Language, sexuality and religion in Israel
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Reading/Writing Multilingualism: language, literature and creativity in the multilingual classroom
(Wiley, 2017-10-30)This article examines the relationship between the discipline of ‘English Literature’, and the contemporary multilingual classroom. It argues that our field has often been cast as a kind of corrective to the ‘problem’ of ...
