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Discourse and Digital Practices shows how tools from discourse analysis can be used to help us understand new communication practices associated with digital media, from video gaming and social networking to apps and photo sharing.
This cutting-edge book:
- draws together fourteen eminent scholars in the field including James Paul Gee, David Barton, Ilana Snyder, Phil Benson, Victoria Carrington, Guy Merchant, Camilla Vasquez, Neil Selwyn and Rodney Jones
- answers the central question: "How does discourse analysis enable us to understand digital practices?"
- addresses a different type of digital media in each chapter
- demonstrates how digital practices and the associated new technologies challenge discourse analysts to adapt traditional analytic tools and formulate new theories and methodologies
- examines digital practices from a wide variety of approaches including textual analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, object ethnography, geosemiotics, and critical discourse analysis.
Discourse and Digital Practices will be of interest to advanced students studying courses on digital literacies or language and digital practices.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Discourse Analysis and Digital Practices
Rodney H. Jones, Alice Chik, Christoph A. Hafner
Chapter 2 Discourse Analysis of Games
James Paul Gee
Chapter 3 Discourse, Cybernetics, and the Entextualization of the Self
Rodney H. Jones
Chapter 4 Tagging on Flickr as a Social Practice
David Barton
Chapter 5 Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Online Consumer Reviews
Camilla Vásquez
Chapter 6 YouTube as Text: Spoken Interaction Analysis and Digital Discourse
Phil Benson
Chapter 7 Co-constructing Identity in Virtual Worlds for Children
Christoph A. Hafner
Chapter 8 Recreational Language Learning and Digital Practices: Positioning and Repositioning
Alice Chik
Chapter 9 Investigating Digital Sex-Talk Practices: A Reflection on Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis
Brian King
Chapter 10 Apps, Adults and Young Children: Researching Digital Literacy Practices in Context
Guy Merchant
Chapter 11 'It's Changed My Life': iPhone as Technological Artefact
Victoria Carrington
Chapter 12 Digital Discourse@Public Space: Flows of Language Online and Offline
Carmen Lee
Chapter 13 The Discourse of Celebrity in the Fanvid Ecology of Club Penguin Machinima
Jackie Marsh
Chapter 14 Discourse of 'Curation' in Digital Times
Ilana Synder
Chapter 15 The Discursive Construction of Education in the Digital Age
Neil Selwyn
About the author
Rodney H. Jones is Professor of English at City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests include discourse analysis, health communication and language and sexuality. His books include
Discourse in Action: introducing mediated discourse analysis (edited with Sigrid Norris, Routledge, 2005),
Understanding Digital Literacies: a practical introduction (with Christoph Hafner, Routledge, 2012), and
Health and Risk Communication: an applied linguistic perspective (Routledge, 2013).
Alice Chik is Senior Lecturer in The School of Education at Macquarie University. Her main research areas include narrative inquiry, literacy, and popular culture in language education. She is the co-editor of
Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education: international perspectives (Routledge, 2014).
Christoph A. Hafner is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include specialized discourse, digital literacies and language learning and technology. He is co-author of
Understanding Digital Literacies: a practical introduction (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of
Transparency, Power and Control: perspectives on legal communication (Ashgate, 2012)
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