Everyday Borders of Transnational Students: Composing Place and Space with Mobile Technology, Social Media, and Multimodality

摘要: Abstract Students living and attending institutions of higher education near the border Mexico United States use mobile devices, multimodality, social media to challenge institutional spaces in a number ways. The study presents results mixed-method research designed examine how students this context employ devices negotiate idea space when doing writing work. article also examines uses technologies affect practices including student awareness popular modes writing, academic genres, rhetorical concepts affecting practices. Through examining such issues, author argues for development multimodal pedagogies that can supplement validate lived experiences who regularly move between different national, cultural, educational contexts.