Russell Francis is a researcher at The Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg. His work is informed by ethnographic studies of digital subcultures, media theory and sociocultural ways of thinking about learning, development and social change.
Specialties: Sociocultural and dialogical studies, activity theory, cognitive anthropology; qualitative data analysis, social media, new media literacies, ethnographic studies of digital subcultures; virtual ethnography; discourse analysis; design experiments; bid writing.
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