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Comstock, Michelle and Joanne Addison. "Virtual Complexities: Exploring Literacy at the Intersections of Computer-Mediated Social Formations." Computers and Composition 14, 245-255 (1997).

Chiseri-Strater, Elizabeth and Bonnie Stone Sustein. Fieldworking: Reading and Writing Research. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997. 

Duncombe, Stephen. "Let's All Be Alienated Together: Zines and the Making of Underground Community" from Generations of Youth, ed. Joe Austin and Michael Nevin Willard. 

Duncombe, Stephen. Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture. New York: Verso, 1997.

Faigley, Lester and Jack Selzer. Good Reasons. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Garrett-Petts, W.F. "Developing Vernacular Literacies and Multidisciplinary Pedagogies," Miss Grundy Doesn’t Teach Here Anymore: Popular Culture and the Composition Classroom. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook, 1997.

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Goshgarian, Gary. The Contemporary Reader, 6th edition. New York: Longman, 1999.

Gunderloy, Mike and Cari Goldberg Janice. The World of Zines: A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution. New York: Penguin, 1992. 

Hawisher, Gail and Cynthia Selfe, eds. Literacy, technology, and society: confronting the issues. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997. 

Leonard, Marion. "Paper Planes: Travelling the New Grrrl Geographies." Cool Places:Geographies of Youth. New York: Routledge, 1998. 

McLaughlin, Thomas. Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. 

McQuade, Donald and Christine McQuade. Seeing and Writing. Boston: Bedford/St. Martins, 2000.

Nguyen, Mimi. "Tales of an Asiatic Geek Girl: Slant from Paper to Pixels," from Technicolor: Race, Technology, and Everyday Life. New York: NYU Press, 2001.

Sorapure, Madeleine, Inglesby, Pamela and George Yatchisin. "Web Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities for Research in a New Medium." Computers and Composition 15, pp. 409-424 (1998).

Vale, V. ed. Zines! Volume 1. San Francisco, CA: V/Search Press, 1996. 

Van Maanan, John. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1988.

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