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The changing social spaces of learning: Mapping new mobilities Leander, Kevin M., Nathan C. Phillips, and Katherine Headrick Taylor. 2010. The changing social spaces of learning: Mapping new mobilities. Review of Research in Education 34:329–394.

Cited in Connected Play: Other studies of immigrant (especially second-generation) youth have docu- mented the ways that their online social networking can help them keep up (or learn) multiple languages important to their hybrid ethnic heritages (e.g., Lam 2000; 2009), build transnational identities and spaces to consider the hybridity of their cultures (Skop and Adams 2009), and discuss topics unique to their personal histo- ries (Lee and Hoadley 2006). Though these studies do not apply specifically to vir- tual worlds, there are similarities between the social networking opportunities in virtual worlds and other online social networking activities such as instant messag- ing (IM), social network sites, and other forums (Grimes and Fields 2012). Leander, Phillips, and Taylor (2010) provide an excellent review of this literature, as well as of other considerations of virtual geographies of kids’ relationships as they build and extend social spaces online.