Getting Your Porridge Right is Difficult: Social Media as the Key to Understand the English
Journal Title: New Horizons in English Studies - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The Review of Social Media in an English Village (Or How to Keep Peopleat Just the Right Distance) by Daniel Miller (London: UCL Press, 2016)
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Klaudia Gąsior
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- DOI 10.17951/nh.2017.2.136
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