Discourse Communities: From Origins to Social Media

Discourse and Education ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-02243-7_33 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 267-281

Author(s):

Deoksoon Kim ◽

Oksana Vorobel

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Discourse Communities

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Organizational Sensemaking in Tough Times: The Ecology of NGOs’ COVID-19 Issue Discourse Communities on Social Media

Computers in Human Behavior ◽

10.1016/j.chb.2021.106838 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 106838

Author(s):

Yiqi Li ◽

Aimei Yang ◽

Jieun Shin ◽

Jingyi Sun ◽

Hye Min Kim ◽

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Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Discourse Communities ◽

Organizational Sensemaking

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MELODRAMATIC PLATFORMS: THE AFFECTIVE THEATRE OF POLARIZED POLITICAL STORYTELLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA

AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research ◽

10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12218 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Míchílín Ní Threasaigh ◽

Megan Boler

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Mass Communication ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Emotional Engagement ◽

The Internet ◽

Discourse Communities ◽

National Belonging ◽

Social Media Platforms ◽

Media Discourses ◽

A Site

Once a site of promise for democratizing mass communication, the internet has also become a site of problematic information and polarized affect. Contrary to claims that polarization is not necessarily encouraged by social media platforms; our two-year, mixed-methods study of affect and narratives of race and national belonging in social media discourses of the 2019 Canadian and 2020 U.S. federal elections reveals clearly polarized collective political storytelling constructing conflicting meta-narratives marked by a highly affective moralizing tone and clear binaries of us versus them and good versus evil. Surprisingly, there is very little research that has drawn on either narrative emotions analysis or melodrama to understand the kinds of polarization that take place within social media platforms. This talk shares our finding; achieved through our innovative approach to affective discourse analysis developed through iterative, grounded theoretical qualitative study; that discourse communities formed according to social as well as political identities construct these polarized meta-narratives in the genre of melodrama, readily ensuring the emotional engagement of social media users through “sensationalism and predictable plot lines of good battling evil, plots and characters that do not encourage reflection, and refusal of nuance” (Loseke, 2018, p. 517).

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Zur sprachlichen und visuellen Konstruktion rechter Diskursgemeinschaften in Social Media. Von PEGIDA zur Identitären Bewegung

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature ◽

10.17951/lsmll.2021.45.2.119-131 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 119

Author(s):

Derya Gür-Şeker

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Right Wing ◽

Discourse Communities ◽

Visual Patterns ◽

Data Basis ◽

User Comments ◽

Naming Practices

The article examines how right-wing discourse communities are linguistically and visually constituted in social media in the context of flight, migration and Islam. The PEGIDA Facebook Corpus covering user comments (2014–2015), the PolRrA Corpus containing right-wing populist speeches (2016–2017) and the Instagram Corpus of the hashtag #identitäre (2019–2020) with postings and user comments are the data basis. Thus the corpus consists of different language-based and multimodal entities. The aim is to show how right-wing discourse communities in Germany are constituted by us-you relations, naming practices and visual patterns across time, platform and organization.

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Where Social Media Meets AAC

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.gs.20072015.np ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (7) ◽

Author(s):

Vicki Clarke

Keyword(s):

Social Media

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Social Media: A Powerful Tool for AAC Learning and Networking

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.gs.22022017.np ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Lauren Enders

Keyword(s):

Social Media

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Making Twitter Work For You

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.stw.18052013.np ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Public Relations ◽

Speech Language Pathologists

As professionals who recognize and value the power and important of communications, audiologists and speech-language pathologists are perfectly positioned to leverage social media for public relations.

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