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Taylor & Francis Discourse and Digital Practices Doing discourse analysis in the digital age 2015 Edition by Rodney H Jones, Alice Chik, Christoph A Hafner
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 chapterdemonstrates how digital practices and the associated new technologies challenge discourse analysts to adapt traditional analytic tools and formulate new theories and methodologiesexamines 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. Table of contents :- Chapter 1 Introduction: Discourse Analysis and Digital PracticesRodney H. Jones, Alice Chik, Christoph A. HafnerChapter 2 Discourse Analysis of GamesJames Paul GeeChapter 3 Discourse, Cybernetics, and the Entextualization of the SelfRodney H. JonesChapter 4 Tagging on Flickr as a Social PracticeDavid BartonChapter 5 Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Online Consumer ReviewsCamilla VasquezChapter 6 YouTube as Text: Spoken Interaction Analysis and Digital DiscoursePhil BensonChapter 7 Co-constructing Identity in Virtual Worlds for ChildrenChristoph A. HafnerChapter 8 Recreational Language Learning and Digital Practices: Positioning and RepositioningAlice ChikChapter 9 Investigating Digital Sex-Talk Practices: A Reflection on Corpus-Assisted Discourse AnalysisBrian KingChapter 10 Apps, Adults and Young Children: Researching Digital Literacy Practices in Context Guy Merchant Chapter 11 'It's Changed My Life': iPhone as Technological ArtefactVictoria CarringtonChapter 12 Digital Discourse@Public Space: Flows of Language Online and OfflineCarmen LeeChapter 13 The Discourse of Celebrity in the Fanvid Ecology of Club Penguin MachinimaJackie MarshChapter 14 Discourse of 'Curation' in Digital TimesIlana SynderChapter 15 The Discursive Construction of Education in the Digital AgeNeil Selwyn