Discourse and Digital Practices

Name: Discourse and Digital Practices
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138022324
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Doing discourse analysis in the digital age

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Discourse and Digital Practices explores how discourse analysis tools illuminate modern communication methods across digital media such as video gaming, social networking, apps, and photo sharing. Bringing together insights from fourteen leading scholars, the book investigates how traditional analytic methods adapt to new technologies and digital contexts, offering diverse approaches including textual analysis, conversation analysis, and critical discourse analysis.
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Ideal for advanced students and researchers in digital literacies, language studies, and communication, especially those interested in the intersection of discourse analysis and digital media.

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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138022324

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 February 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 12 Tables, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Alice Chik
Edited by Rodney H Jones
Edited by Christoph Hafner

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 262

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About the Author

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).