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.
Understanding Digital Literacies Second Edition provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies. This book equips students with the theoretical and analytical tools with which ...to explore the linguistic dimensions and social impact of a range of digital literacy practices. Each chapter in the volume covers a different topic, presenting an overview of the major concepts, issues, problems, and debates surrounding it, while also encouraging students to reflect on and critically evaluate their own language and communication practices.
Features of the second edition include:
Expanded coverage of a diverse range of digital media practices that now includes Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Tinder, and WhatsApp;
Two entirely new chapters on mobility and materiality, and surveillance and privacy;
Updated activities in each chapter which engage students in reflecting on and analysing their own media use;
E-resources featuring a glossary of key terms and supplementary material for each chapter, including additional activities and links to useful websites, articles, and videos.
This book is an essential textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying courses in new media and digital literacies.
•Algorithms affect practices of reading and writing as well as broader patterns of language use, communication and consumption.•This paper describes a participatory project, in which university ...students explored their ‘folk beliefs’ about algorithms.•The participants articulated six metaphors through which they and their classmates understand how algorithms work•Engaging learners in ‘folk beliefs’ about algorithms can contribute to critical online reading practices.
Most accounts of the way digital technologies have changed practices of reading and writing have focused on surface aspects of digital texts (such as hypertextuality, multimodality and the development of new registers). There are, however, less visible aspects of digital communication environments that have had an equally profound effect on reading and writing – namely the algorithms that lie behind texts that monitor the actions of readers and writers and alter the form and content of the texts they are exposed to. Algorithms have the potential to affect not just local communication practices, but also broader social practices, as they work to encourage and reinforce patterns of language use, communication and consumption. This paper describes the results of a two-year long participatory project, in which university students in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom explored the communication and inference forming practices they engage in when interacting with algorithms. The participants articulated six primary metaphors through which they and their classmates understand how algorithms work: (1) Algorithm as agent; (2) Algorithm as authority; (3) Algorithm as adversary; (4) Algorithm as communicative resource; (5) Algorithm as audience; and (6) Algorithm as oracle. Engaging learners in articulating the ‘folk beliefs’ that govern people’s interaction with algorithms, it is argued, can contribute to the development of the kinds of digital literacies they will need to better understand the ways algorithms affect the kinds of information they are exposed to, the kinds of inferences they form about this information, and the ways their own acts of reading and writing can be used by algorithms to manipulate them.
The authors of this series of brief reports offer a more nuanced and holistic view of critical digital literacies, one which, recognizes that literacy is not just about how you think, but about what ...you do, that reading and writing online (and ‘critiquing’ what we read) is never just an individual cognitive exercise, but always a social act with implications for our social identities and our place in the communities we belong to, and that criticality is always situated—what it means to exercise criticality is different for different kinds of people in different contexts.
From emails relating to adoption over the Internet to discussions in the airline cockpit, the spoken or written texts we produce can have significant social consequences. The area of Mediated ...Discourse Analysis considers texts in their social and cultural contexts to explore the actions individuals take with texts - and the consequences of those actions.
Discourse in Action:
brings together leading scholars from around the world in the area of Mediated Discourse Analysis
reveals ways in which its theory and methodology can be used in research into contemporary social situations
explores real situations and draws on real data in each chapter
shows how analysis of texts in their social contexts broadens our understanding of the real world.Taken together, the chapters provide a comprehensive overview to the field and present a range of current studies that address some of the most important questions facing students and researchers in linguistics, education, communication studies and other fields.
This introduction explores the four main themes of the papers in this special issue: 1) ‘language, languaging and translanguaging’ 2) ‘mobility and space’ 3) ‘transcultural identities’ and 4) ...‘institutional and individual constraints on creativity’, and discusses how engagement with these themes helps the authors to move beyond traditional notions of linguistic creativity and creative pedagogy to formulate new ways of imagining creativity in language learning based on encouraging learners to make use of the full range of their semiotic resources and social experiences when communicating.
The It Gets Better project has been held up as a model of successful social media activism. This article explores how narrators of It Gets Better videos make use of generic intertextuality, ...strategically combining the canonical narrative genres of the exemplum, the testimony, and the confession in a way that allows them to claim ‘textual authority’ and to make available multiple moral positions for themselves and their listeners. This strategy is further facilitated by the ambiguous participation frameworks associated with digital media, which make it possible for storytellers to tell different kinds of stories to different kinds of listeners at the same time, to simultaneously comfort the victims of anti-gay violence, confront its perpetrators, and elicit sympathy from ‘onlookers’. This analysis highlights the potential of new practices of online storytelling for social activism, and challenges notions that new media are contributing to the demise of common narrative traditions. (Activism, digital media, genre, LGBT discourse, narrative, positioning)*
Accounting for surveillance Jones, Rodney H.
Journal of sociolinguistics,
February 2020, 2020-02-00, 20200201, Letnik:
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Journal Article
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This contribution discusses the ways people hold themselves and others accountable for everyday practices of surveillance. It analyses three examples: (1) the “breeching experiments” of the video ...artist “Surveillance Camera Man,” (2) a “stop and frisk” incident involving a 17‐year‐old boy in Harlem, and (3) the pop‐up windows on websites that ask for users’ consent to use “cookies.” Understanding the relationship between language and securitization, it is argued, requires that we pay attention to the interactional basis of surveillance and the ways rights and responsibilities are negotiated, ratified, challenged, or ignored in the moment‐by‐moment unfolding of communication.
Αυτό το άρθρο εξετάζει τους τρόπους με τους οποίους οι άνθρωποι καθιστούν υπεύθυνους αφενός τους ίδιους και αφετέρου τρίτους για καθημερινές πρακτικές παρακολούθησης. Αναλύει τα τρία εξής παραδείγματα: (1) τα “πειράματα παραβίασης” του δημιουργού βίντεο “Surveillance Camera Man,” (2) το περιστατικό κατά το οποίο ακινητοποίησαν κι έκαναν σωματική έρευνα (“stop and frisk”) σ’ ένα 17χρονο αγόρι στο Χάρλεμ, και (3) τα αναδυόμενα παράθυρα σε ιστοσελίδες, με τα οποία ζητείται συγκατάθεση χρηστών για τη χρήση “cookies.” Υποστηρίζεται ότι η κατανόηση της σχέσης μεταξύ της γλώσσας και της ασφαλειοποίησης (securitization) απαιτεί να επιστήσουμε την προσοχή στην επικοινωνιακή βάση της παρακολούθησης, αλλά και στους τρόπους με τους οποίους τα δικαιώματα και οι ευθύνες διαπραγματεύονται, εγκρίνονται, αμφισβητούνται ή αγνοούνται κατά το συνεχές ξετύλιγμα της επικοινωνίας.
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•Cluster analysis of morphological and pigment data for Australian dermocyboid Cortinarius yielded 17 phenotypic species.•Genealogical concordance across seven loci recovered 35 ...phylogenetic species among these phenotypic species.•All loci except for LSU recovered most phylogenetic species but only rpb1 correctly identified all phylogenetic species.•A standard ITS pairwise distance threshold of 2.0% is proposed to DNA barcode Australian Cortinarius taxa.•Australian dermocyboid fungi belong in separate clades to the boreal clade Dermocybe, mostly in the clade Splendidi.
This study aims to delimit species of Australian dermocyboid fungi (Cortinarius, Agaricales) using genealogical concordance on well-characterised phenotypic species and to assess the utility of seven loci for DNA barcoding Australian Cortinarius taxa. Eighty-six collections of dermocyboid Cortinarius were sampled from across southern Australia. Phenotypic species were first recognised by performing clustering analyses on a comprehensive phenotypic dataset including morphological, colour and pigment data. Then phylogenetic species were delimited from the concordance of seven locus genealogies (ITS, nLSU, gpd, mcm7, rpb1, rpb2 and tef1). Seventeen phenotypic species were recognised while the concordance of gene genealogies recovered 35 phylogenetic species. All loci except for LSU recovered most phylogenetic species, although only rpb1 correctly identified all phylogenetic species. The ITS region is confirmed as an effective barcode for Cortinarius and a standard pairwise distance threshold of 2.0% is proposed to DNA barcode Australian Cortinarius taxa. Australian dermocyboid fungi belong in separate clades to the boreal clade Dermocybe, mostly in the clade Splendidi. This study provides a solid foundation for future ecological, taxonomic and systematic research on one of the most diverse genera of mushrooms worldwide.
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