Between whales and boats of paper: imagery and socio-identity

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Manuela Delfino
Stefania Manca

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An analysis of textual evidence of social presence in an environment of networked learning. The study 'was conducted in the online version of the course "Educational Technology" Institute for Educational Technology for SSIS Liguria.

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