Facebook and Conversation Analysis - The Structure and Organization of Comment Threads

Zusatztext It will be particularly helpful for scholars concerned with online interaction, specifically sequence organisation, turn adjacency, as well as the application of CA methods in digital contexts. More broadly, this book will be an interesting read for those thinking about, and researching, the relationship between technological architectures and communication. Informationen zum Autor Matteo Farina is Lecturer in the School of Communication! International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia! Australia. This book investigates the organisation and structure of Facebook comment threads using a Conversation Analysis approach. Zusammenfassung Facebook and Conversation Analysis investigates the structure and organization of comments on a major social media platform! Facebook! using applied conversation analysis methods. Providing previously undocumented insights into the structure of comment threads! this book demonstrates that they have a meaningful organization! rather than casually following one another. Although normally used to explore the structure of spoken conversations! in recent years conversation analysis approaches have been successfully applied to examine online interactions on Twitter! discussion forums and email exchanges. By turning this approach towards Facebook comments! Matteo Farina provides clear and important insights into the organization of this type of social interaction. Supported by a large sample of data! with findings based on a corpus of 213 comment threads! with over 1!200 comments exchanged by 266 contributors! this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the way people communicate on Facebook. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Sequence Organization of Facebook Comment Threads2. The Organization of Facebook Comment Threads3. First Comments in Facebook Comment Threads: Tellings4. The Interactionally Problematic Nature of First Post Tellings5. Non-initial Tellings6. Responses in Comment Threads Opened by a First Post Telling7. Conclusion BibliographyIndex ...

Product details

• Authors: Matteo Farina, Matteo (University of South Australia Farina
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781350141612
• ISBN: 978-1-350-14161-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Sociolinguistics, Social networking, Social media / social networking, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media, Internet and digital media: arts and performance