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"Discourse and Digital Practices shows how tools from discourse analysis can be used to help us understand new communication practices associated with digital media, from video gaming and social networking to apps and photo sharing. This cutting-edge book: draws together fourteen eminent scholars in the field including James Paul Gee, David Barton, Ilana Snyder, Phil Benson, Victoria Carrington, Guy Merchant, Camilla Vasquez, Neil Selwyn and Rodney Jones answers the central question: ""How does discourse analysis enable us to understand digital practices?"" addresses a different type of digital media in each chapter demonstrates how digital practices and the associated new technologies challenge discourse analysts to adapt traditional analytic tools and formulate new theories and methodologies examines digital practices from a wide variety of approaches including textual analysis, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, multimodal discourse analysis, object ethnography, geosemiotics, and critical discourse analysis. Discourse and Digital Practices will be of interest to advanced students studying courses on digital literacies or language and digital practices."

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Author:   Rodney H Jones ,  Alice Chik ,  Christoph Hafner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.385kg
ISBN:  

9781138022331

ISBN 10:   1138022330
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   09 February 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Discourse Analysis and Digital Practices Rodney H. Jones, Alice Chik, Christoph A. Hafner Chapter 2 Discourse Analysis of Games James Paul Gee Chapter 3 Discourse, Cybernetics, and the Entextualization of the Self Rodney H. Jones Chapter 4 Tagging on Flickr as a Social Practice David Barton Chapter 5 Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Online Consumer Reviews Camilla Vásquez Chapter 6 YouTube as Text: Spoken Interaction Analysis and Digital Discourse Phil Benson Chapter 7 Co-constructing Identity in Virtual Worlds for Children Christoph A. Hafner Chapter 8 Recreational Language Learning and Digital Practices: Positioning and Repositioning Alice Chik Chapter 9 Investigating Digital Sex-Talk Practices: A Reflection on Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis Brian King Chapter 10 Apps, Adults and Young Children: Researching Digital Literacy Practices in Context Guy Merchant Chapter 11 ‘It’s Changed My Life’: iPhone as Technological Artefact Victoria Carrington Chapter 12 Digital Discourse@Public Space: Flows of Language Online and Offline Carmen Lee Chapter 13 The Discourse of Celebrity in the Fanvid Ecology of Club Penguin Machinima Jackie Marsh Chapter 14 Discourse of ‘Curation’ in Digital Times Ilana Synder Chapter 15 The Discursive Construction of Education in the Digital Age Neil Selwyn

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Rodney H. Jones is Professor of English at City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests include discourse analysis, health communication and language and sexuality. His books include Discourse in Action: introducing mediated discourse analysis (edited with Sigrid Norris, Routledge, 2005), Understanding Digital Literacies: a practical introduction (with Christoph Hafner, Routledge, 2012), and Health and Risk Communication: an applied linguistic perspective (Routledge, 2013). Alice Chik is Senior Lecturer in The School of Education at Macquarie University. Her main research areas include narrative inquiry, literacy, and popular culture in language education. She is the co-editor of Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education: international perspectives (Routledge, 2014). Christoph A. Hafner is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include specialized discourse, digital literacies and language learning and technology. He is co-author of Understanding Digital Literacies: a practical introduction (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of Transparency, Power and Control: perspectives on legal communication (Ashgate, 2012).

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