Discourse and digital practices : doing discourse analysis in the digital age / edited by Rodney H Jones, Alice Chik, Christoph A Hafner

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : discourse analysis and digital practices / Rodney H. Jones, Alice Chik and Christoph A. Hafner -- Discourse analysis of games / James Paul Gee -- Discourse, cybernetics, and the entextualisation of the self / Rodney H. Jones -- Tagging on Flickr as a social practice / David Barton -- Intertextuality and interdiscursivity in online consumer reviews / Camilla Vásquez -- YouTube as text : spoken interaction analysis and digital discourse / Phil Benson -- Co-constructing identity in virtual worlds for children / Christoph A. Hafner -- Recreational language learning and digital practices : positioning and repositioning / Alice Chik -- Investigating digital sex talk practices : a reflection on corpus-assisted discourse analysis / Brian W. King -- Apps, adults and young children : researching digital literacy practices in context / Guy Merchant -- 'It's changed my life' : iPhone as technological artefact / Victoria Carrington -- Digital discourse@public space : flows of language online and offline / Carmen Lee -- The discourses of celebrity in the fanvid ecology of Club Penguin machinima / Jackie Marsh -- Discourses of 'curation' in digital times / Ilana Synder -- The discursive construction of edication in the digital age / Neil Selwyn

"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 Jonesaddresses the central question: "How does discourse analysis enable us to understand digital practices?"demonstrates how digital practices and the associated new technologies challenge discourse analysts to adapt traditional analytic tools and formulate new theories and methodologiesanalyses a different type of digital media in each chapterexamines 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"-- Provided by publisher

"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. Fourteen eminent scholars including James Paul Gee and Camilla Vasquez address the challenges of working with digital texts and interactions, and illustrate how different approaches to discourse analysis can be adapted in the face of these new digital practices. This cutting-edge book will be of interest to advanced students studying courses on digital literacies or language and digital practices"-- Provided by publisher