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Introduction to This Special Issue on Transnational HCI

Irina Shklovski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
,
Janet Vertesi Princeton University
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Silvia Lindtner University of California, Irvine and Fudan University, China
Pages 1-21 | Published online: 30 Oct 2013

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ARTICLES IN THIS SPECIAL ISSUE

  • Castro , L. A. and Gonzalez , V. M. 2014 . Transnational imagination and social practices: A transnational website in a migrant community . Human–Computer Interaction , 29 : 22 – 52 .
  • Kraemer , J. 2014 . Friend or Freund: Social media and transnational connections in Berlin . Human–Computer Interaction , 29 : 53 – 77 .
  • Williams , A. , Lindtner , S. , Anderson , K. and Dourish , P. 2014 . Multisited design: An analytical lens for transnational HCI . Human–Computer Interaction , 29 : 78 – 108 .

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