Discourse and social media

Discourse and Social Media is a unique and timely collection that breaks ground on how discourse scholars, coming from a range of disciplinary perspectives, can critically analyse different social media, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and News. The book fills a gap in the market for a multi-d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bouvier, Gwen (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge , c2016
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. 1. What is a discourse approach to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media: connecting with other academic fields?
  • 2. The pursuit of power in Iraqi political discourse: unpacking the construction of sociopolitical communities on Facebook
  • 3. YouTube as a site of debate through populist politics: the case of a Turkish protest pop video
  • 4. `Should each of us take over the role as watcher?' Attitudes on Twitter towards the 2014 Norwegian terror alert
  • 5. Radicalist discourse: a study of the stances of Nigeria's Boko Haram and Somalia's Al Shabaab on Twitter
  • 6. Visual forms of address in social media discourse: the case of a science communication website
  • 7. Food fight: conflicting language ideologies in English and French news and social media