Mobile Messaging and Resourcefulness - A Post-Digital Ethnography

This book advocates a new blended linguistic ethnography approach to unpacking mobile communication and enabling a more informed understanding of individuals' communicative practices in cities today

List of contents

1. Introduction


2. Post-digital ethnography and the networked individual


3. Mobile resourcefulness


4. Polymedia repertoires


5. Sharing in mobile conversations


6. Conclusion

About the author

Caroline Tagg is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at The Open University, UK. Her research into language and digital technologies rests on the understanding that digital communication practices are deeply embedded into individuals' wider lives. She is author of Taking Offence on Social Media (with Philip Seargeant and Amy Aisha Brown, 2017) and Message and Medium (with Mel Evans, 2020).
Agnieszka Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Her research employs multimodal and mediated discourse analytic as well as ethnographic approaches to explore the discursive construction of embodied identity in polycentric migrant environments. She has published on issues related to migration and mobility in Language in Society, Journal of Pragmatics and Social Semiotics, among others.

Summary

This book advocates a new blended linguistic ethnography approach to unpacking mobile communication and enabling a more informed understanding of individuals’ communicative practices in cities today

Product details

• Authors: Agnieszka Lyons, Caroline Tagg, Caroline Lyons Tagg, Tagg Caroline
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032269412
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226941-2
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Routledge Focus on Language and Social Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General