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The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, a thesis entitled: Learning digital citizenship in publics of practice: How adults learn to use activist hashtags on Twitter submitted by Megan Ryland in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Educational Studies

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