Taking Offence on Social Media
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.
| Autor: | Brown, Amy Aisha Seargeant, Philip Tagg, Caroline |
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| ISBN: | 9783319859828 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 139 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 03.08.2018 |
| Untertitel: | Conviviality and Communication on Facebook |
| Schlagworte: | Social media and intradiverse communities audience design computer mediated communication context design intradiversity media ideologies online convivality online interactional dynamics online survey recontextualisation |
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.