1st Edition

Social Media Critical Discourse Studies

Edited By Majid KhosraviNik Copyright 2023
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) aims to enhance our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change. This book is in response to specific changes in mediation technologies of discourse, brought about by the significant concentration of discursive practices within the paradigm of social media communication. This book addresses this participatory... Read more

1. Digital meaning-making across content and practice in social media critical discourse studies

Majid KhosraviNik

2. Social media and terrorism discourse: the Islamic State’s (IS) social media discursive content and practices

Majid KhosraviNik and Mohammedwesam Amer

3. Proximization, prosumption and salience in digital discourse: on the interface of social media communicative dynamics and the spread of populist ideologies

Monika Kopytowska

4. Discourses of celebrities on Instagram: digital femininity, self-representation and hate speech

Soudeh Ghaffari

5. From ‘echo chambers’ to ‘chaos chambers’: discursive coherence and contradiction in the #MeToo Twitter feed

Gwen Bouvier

6. Participation and deliberative discourse on social media – Wikipedia talk pages as transnational public spheres?

Susanne Kopf

7. The spatial, networked and embodied agency of social media: a critical discourse perspective on Banksy’s political expression

Bolette B. Blaagaard and Mette Marie Roslyng

Biography

Majid KhosraviNik is a senior lecturer in Digital Media & Discourse Studies at Newcastle University (UK). He is a founder and convenor of the Newcastle Critical Discourse Group and sits on the board of the Journal of Language & Politics and Critical Discourse Studies, as well as serving as an expert reviewer for ERC actions, including Marie Curie IF, Combating Digital Misogyny, Islamophobia and Racism, British ESRC and several other international research funding organisations. Majid is interested in the intersection of social media technologies, discourse, and politics. His most recent work pertains to the integration of analysis of technology and discourse under the notion of Techno-Discursive Analysis as a model for the critical analysis of digital discourse formation and perception.