Taking Offence on Social Media

Conviviality and Communication on Facebook

Caroline Tagg, Philip Seargeant, Amy Aisha Brown (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 139 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
9783319567167 (ISBN)

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This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors focus on inadvertent acts of offence on Facebook; that is, when users of the site unwittingly offend or are offended by the airing of political or religious views, or of opinions deemed racist or sexist. Drawing on a survey of Facebook users, they explain why instances of offence occur and what users report doing in response. They argue that Facebook users contribute to the construction of a particular social space, one that is characterised by online conviviality and a belief that Facebook is not the place for serious debate. These views in turn shape the kind of political debate that can take place on the site. This thought-provoking book will appeal to scholars and students of applied linguistics, and anyone interested in the role of social media in contemporary political and social life.

Dr Caroline Tagg is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK. Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Open University, UK. Amy Aisha Brown is a Teaching Fellow in the School of English at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.

Chapter 1. Creating Facebook: A Study of Online Conflict and Conviviality.- Chapter 2. Online Communication as Context Design.- Chapter 3. Giving and Taking Offence: Theoretical and Empirical Approaches.- Chapter 4. Social Media and Intradiverse Networks.- Chapter 5. The Impact of Intradiversity on Online Offence.- Chapter 6. Constructing Conviviality in Online Interaction.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2017
Zusatzinfo	IX, 139 p. 9 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	329 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Applied Linguistics • Audience design • awareness • Computer Mediated Communication • context design • Discourse analysis • (dis)identification • intradiversity • Language: history & general works • Language: history & general works • Language: reference & general • Language: reference & general • media and communication • media ideologies • Media Studies • online convivality • online interactional dynamics • Online Survey • Politics • recontextualisation • Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics • Social Media • Social media and intradiverse communities • Social Sciences • Sociolinguistics
ISBN-13	9783319567167 / 9783319567167
Zustand	Neuware