Dr Michele Zappavigna: 2 books
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Hashtags and Social Media Metadiscourse
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication. Despite its important role in practices such as curating, tagging, and searching content, there has been little research into how meanings are made with social metadata. This book considers how hashtags have expanded...
Discourse of Twitter and Social Media
How We Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Social media such as microblogging services and social networking sites are changing the way people interact online and search for information and opinions. This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse,looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambient affiliation...