Analysing Representations of Social Media in European News Media Discourse (Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication)

Synopsis

This book explores representations of social media in European media discourses across different socio-historical contexts, demonstrating how such analysis can illuminate the tension between global and local in media discourses in today’s globalised world. The volume draws on data from a trilingual corpus from different editions of the free daily Metro from Finland, France, and Greece spanning a five-year period, with a focus on Facebook and Twitter. Adopting a French discourse analysis approach, which takes as its point of departure the notion of “discourse as the social practice of representing”, the book integrates qualitative and quantitative analyses to investigate the social and political role depictions of social media play in specific socio-historical contexts. This approach brings to the fore both commonalities and differences in the popularity of specific platforms and coverage of specific news topics and hot-button issues. In so doing, the volume elucidates the ways in which global practices become integrated and immersed into local contexts, offering avenues for future research on social media in news discourses. This book will be of interest to scholars in applied linguistics, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, media studies, and cultural studies.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

296 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000442410

Related ISBNs:

9781003183013, 9781032023519, 9781032023533

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

11/02/21

Copyrighted By:

Christine Develotte, Anthippi Potolia and Eija Suomela-Salmi

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Language Arts

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