1st Edition
Social Media, Social Genres Making Sense of the Ordinary
By Stine Lomborg
Copyright 2014
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Internet-based applications such as blogs, social network sites, online chat forums, text messages, microblogs, and location-based communication services used from computers and smart phones represent central resources for organizing daily life and making sense of ourselves and the social worlds we inhabit. This interdisciplinary book explores the meanings of social media as a communicative... Read more
1. Social media in everyday life 2. Social media as communicative genres 3. Genre as a cognitive category for making sense of the ordinary 4. Negotiating the personal blog 5: Twitter – a genre in the making? 6. Facebook: Genre mixing and portability 7. ‘Personal, not private’: The sociability of social media 8: Social media – social genres
Biography
Stine Lomborg is Assistant Professor in the Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
