Discourse, Context and Media Journal

1️⃣1️⃣E. Aslan on how social media mediates language learning.
1️⃣2️⃣ T. K. Lee on language literacy edutainment.

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8️⃣ S. Herring commentary to the #SI Methodological synergies.
9️⃣ S. Carter-Thomas & E. Rowley-Jolivet on recontextualization of science in different genres.
🔟M.J. Luzón & S. Albero-Posac on comprehensibility in The Conversation.

4️⃣ K. Krykoniuket al. on the concept of online "discourse space".
5️⃣ S. Gao & P. Cooper on indexical shifts & fame on Douyin.
6️⃣C. Wide on expressing support to family care partners of people living with dementia.
7️⃣W. Ren & A. Ross editorial of #SI Discourses of sharing.

🥁New issue published!!!
And it includes many studies on #MediatedDiscourse 🤓⏬:
1️⃣M. Wilczek-Watson & K. Brickley on stancetaking when discussing veganism.
2️⃣O. Segersven & I. Arminen on interactions with AI.
3️⃣ L. Holmgreen et al. on identity performed by leaders.

🥁New article in the #SI on #Dementia
🔷C. Wide studies expressions of #support by institutions & peer groups.
🔷2 data sets: organizations' websites & Facebook threads.
🔷With a netographic approach, the potential of online space is stressed.
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🚨New article published!
🟦O. Segersven & I. Arminen explore how LLMs imitate specialized discourse.
🟦Data comes from an experiment of conversations between #AI & rock climbers.
🟦LLM show epistemic & linguistic fluency but lack experiential competence.

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🚨New article published!
🟦C. Gardam et al. analyse how conspiracy theories are spread on denial communities.
🟦They draw on a corpus of Instagram posts & propose a visual-first #methodology
🟦They prove the intertextual intermodal nature of posts.

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🤓Interested in how #affordances mediate discourse?

📚Most of our articles explore that.

🔎In this thread we highlight some of the articles that have analysed the role of #hyperlinks in different kind of outlets.

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W. Xu & X. Shi study hyperlinks as #engagement markers in corporate discourse.
🟦Data consists of 153 Chinese websites.
🔷An analytical framework for multimodal interactional metadiscourse is proposed.
🔵Digital media #mediates business discourse.
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M.J. Luzón & S. Albero-Posac study how hyperlinks enhance #comprehensibility in dissemination articles.
🟦Data is taken from The Conversation
🔷Categories of verbal in-text elaboration are proposed.
🔵#Affordances are recontextualizing tools.
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@katebarber.bsky.social has studied legitimization through hyperlinks in blog posts.
🟦Data is taken from 5 blogs dealing with s€xuAl violence.
🔷Links are classified as different types of anchor text.
🔵Technological affordances are evidential resources
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🤓Interested in how #affordances mediate discourse?

📚Most of our articles explore that.

🔎In this thread we highlight some of the articles that have analysed the role of #hyperlinks in different kind of outlets.

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Xi Chen analyses positioning practices when sharing personal experiences.
🟦Data, collected from Zhihu, was preprocessed by the API of a Chinese #LLM.
🔷Quantitative analysis calculates types of interaction (+ or -)
🔷Qualitative analysis shows affordances influence positioning.

Yaqian Jiang & Camilla Vásquez explore self-branding practices by teachers.
🟦Focus is on the ethnic & hybrid identity of a self-identified Tibetan English language teacher in Douyin.
🔷Analysis is guided by #SocialSemiotics.
🔷Vlogs emerge as mediated & motivating resources.

Yue Zhao, Yansheng Mao & Kaihang Zhao analyse the discourse of sharing in #health communication.
🟦Data comprises posts shared by patients of cancer on Weibo.
🔷Based on #GroundedTheory, a qualitative analysis is done.
🔷Emotional support is a shared concern across cultures.

Na Yang studies the effect of group membership in the discourse of opinion sharing.
🟦Data includes online reviews in Ctrip & Tripadvisor
🔷Drawing on #CorpusLinguistcs, 2 variables are considered: language & evaluative #stance
🔷Differences in sharing styles are found.

@kurtsengul.bsky.social analyses how spaces are used by far-right online communities.
🔷Drawing on #CriticalDiscoursAnalysis & #netography, the analysis the prominent role of spaces in electoral campaigns.
🔷It also shows the need of adapted methods.
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Andrew Ross & Aditi Bhatia analyse how confessoins have been reconfigured in digital media contexts.
🟦Data is collected from the Fesshole account on X.
🔷Following sociocognitive approaches, two levels of analysis are proposed.
🔷Posts negotiate & display affect.

Wei Ren & Yufei Li investigate second story sharing in online support groups.
🟦Data is collected from Douban, a platform functioning as cultural hub.
🔷Guided by #GroundedTheory, replies were coded for alignment & thematic resonance
🔷Different types & patterns of interaction

In their introduction, W. Ren & A. Ross explain why sharing is a discursive social practice:
✔️Its performative nature as a dynamic process is explored.
✔️ A networked model is proposed.
✔️Affordances are reinterpreted through a discursive lens.
✔️Intimacy is reframed.

📢New special issue published!!!
In this #SI, edited by W. Ren & A. Ross, articles explore how sharing is shaped as a situated social discursive practice.
Aticles showcase a variety of methodological approaches.
Contents in 🧵
🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10D9ZR0Q8VB

Disseminating research results in The Conversation: An analysis of comprehensibility strategies Recognizing the key role of knowledge dissemination in socio-economic progress, The Conversationis a news website intended to promote the public under…

🚨New article in the #SI on disseminating knowledge!
🟦 M.J. Luzón & S. Albero-Posac analyze the recontextualization of science in The Conversation.
🔷Drawing on multimodality, comprehensibility is studied.
🔷Text, visuals & links enhance understanding.
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This all looks really interesting and it is great to see journals being so active on Bluesky!
Great stuff!

S. Herring writes a commentery & reflects on the synergies between computational methods & sociodiscourse analysis.
🔹By evaluating the contribution of articles in the collection.
🔹By proposing CMDA as conceptual anchor.

A. Georgakopoulou proposes technography as a synergetic methodology for the analysis of stories.
🟦Context is to be described through discourses, practices & affordances.
🟦 Differences are established between technographic tracking & ethnography.

J. Androutsopoulos takes the sociolinguistics "scale" concept & proposes a three-staged method for the analysis of digital textual data.
🔷It is applied to the study of graphic cues.
🔷It allows for connections to be drawn between punctuation practices & participary political discourse online.

K. König proposes "transmodal interaction" as new concept for studying digital CA. The methodological challenges of studying integrated sequences of speech & writing in WhatsApp are shown.

‪@christianilbury.bsky.social‬ proposes a mixed quantitative-qualitative method for the study of orthographic representations in WhatsApp.
🟦Interactional & variationist methods are combined.
🟦Correspondences are found between orthographic features and those of spoken discourse.

Jenia Yudytska analyses how techonological affordances influence the use of graphic features.
🟦Two device types are compared: phone & computer.
🟦Relying on different types of corpora, scaling down is proposed as method for studying general trends vs individual preferences.

H. Lopez & S. Kübler incorporate a sociopragmatic perspective to the analysis of abusive language.
🟦They compare two sets of annotations of toxic language in a corpus to identify disagreement & bias.
🟦They show that expertise & contextual knowledge influence annotations.