Participation in public and social media interactions /

"This chapter discusses the function of blogs as tools enhancing citizen participation in political communication. Adopting the perspective of corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, a set of blogs from the US presidential election campaign are analysed in order to determine the frequency...

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Other Authors: Dynel, Marta (Editor), Chovanec, Jan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015
Series:Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 256.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Researching interactional forms and participant structures in public and social media / Jan Chovanec and Marta Dynel 1
  • Reconsidering participation frameworks Participation frameworks and participation in televised sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy / Alexander Brock
  • Participation structures in Twitter interaction: Arguing for the broadcaster role / Fawn Draucker
  • Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcasts / Jan Chovanec
  • Participation and interpersonal pragmatics Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boards / Michael Haugh and Wei-Lin Melody Chang
  • Humour in microblogging: Exploiting linguistic humour strategies for identity construction in two Facebook focus groups / Miriam A. Locher and Brook Bolander
  • Impoliteness in the service of verisimilitude in film interaction / Marta Dynel
  • "That's none of your business, Sy": The pragmatics of vocatives in film dialogue / Raffaele Zago
  • Forms of participation A participation perspective on television evening news in the age of immediacy / Linda Lombardo
  • What I can (re)make out of it: Incoherence, non-cohesion, and re-interpretation in YouTube video responses / Elisabetta Adami
  • Enhancing citizen engagement: Political weblogs and participatory democracy / Georgia Riboni.