Discourse and Social Media

Informationen zum Autor Gwen Bouvier is Assistant Professor in Social Media at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Her main areas of research interest are social media, the Middle East region, and news representation. Her recent publications have focused on 9/11 and representation, discourse analysis, social media, and the visual (mis)representation of crises in news. Klappentext This collection 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. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses. Zusammenfassung This collection 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. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Multicultural Discourses. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Gwen (Zayed University Bouvier
• Assisted by: Gwen Bouvier (Editor), Gwen (Zayed University Bouvier (Editor), Bouvier Gwen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138502543
• ISBN: 978-1-138-50254-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Media Studies, Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics