Facebook and Conversation Analysis: The Structure and Organization of Comment Threads

Author:   Dr Matteo Farina (University of South Australia, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350038288


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   17 May 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Facebook and Conversation Analysis investigates the structure and organization of comments on a major social media platform, Facebook, using applied conversation analysis methods. Providing previously undocumented insights into the structure of comment threads, this book demonstrates that they have a meaningful organization, rather than casually following one another. Although normally used to explore the structure of spoken conversations, in recent years conversation analysis approaches have been successfully applied to examine online interactions on Twitter, discussion forums and email exchanges. By turning this approach towards Facebook comments, Matteo Farina provides clear and important insights into the organization of this type of social interaction. Supported by a large sample of data, with findings based on a corpus of 213 comment threads, with over 1,200 comments exchanged by 266 contributors, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the way people communicate on Facebook.

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Author:   Dr Matteo Farina (University of South Australia, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.503kg
ISBN:  

9781350038288


ISBN 10:   1350038288
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   17 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Sequence Organization of Facebook Comment Threads 2. The Organization of Facebook Comment Threads 3. First Comments in Facebook Comment Threads: Tellings 4. The Interactionally Problematic Nature of First Post Tellings 5. Non-initial Tellings 6. Responses in Comment Threads Opened by a First Post Telling 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Facebook and Conversation Analysis is a welcome addition to research on CMC, as it provides an original and much-needed systematic analysis of the structure of FB comment threads ... Readers will not only appreciate the analysis, but also the clarity and accessibility of the whole book, since the structure of each chapter is clear, the main findings are repeated several times, excerpts from the corpus are carefully translated and thoroughly analyzed, and the writing style is clear. Though the scope of the book is confined to Italian, its general conclusions can be safely extended to other Western languages ... A valuable addition to the literature on CMC in general and digital CA in particular. * LINGUIST List *


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Matteo Farina is Lecturer in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia, Australia.

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