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Social media and the new canon of use for social protest: The case of cutting hair to show solidarity with the women of Iran 社交媒体和社会抗议的新标准：剪头发以示对伊朗妇女的声援

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2025.100867

Gwen Bouvier, Shangran Jin

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Context in abusive language detection: On the interdependence of context and annotation of user comments 滥用语言检测中的语境：语境与用户评论注释的相互依存关系

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100848

Holly Lopez, Sandra Kübler

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Improbable conversations: Interactional dynamics in TikTok duets 不可能的对话：抖音二重唱中的互动动态

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100821

Susan C. Herring, Ashley R. Dainas

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@Fesshole and the discourse of confession on X: A study of online sharing and community building @Fesshole与X上的告白话语：网络分享与社区建设研究

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100838

Andrew S. Ross , Aditi Bhatia

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Address terms in Chinese popular music fandom: Exploring stancetaking in social media discourses 中国流行乐迷的称呼：探索社交媒体话语中的立场

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100837

Xinyu Li, Mie Hiramoto

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Evoking ‘other countries’ in media discourses: The case of the Covid-19 pandemic in six countries 在媒体话语中唤起“其他国家”：六个国家的Covid-19大流行案例

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100847

Lauri Heimo , Pertti Alasuutari , Laia Pi Ferrer , Olga Ulybina

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Queer(ing) language practices in a Hong Kong lesbian dating app 香港一款女同性恋约会软件中的酷儿语言实践

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2025-02-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100839

Benedict J.L. Rowlett , Kwan Ting Chung

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The interaction of technological affordances and user preferences: A corpus-based study of graphic features across Twitter and Discord 技术能力与用户偏好的相互作用：基于语料库的推特和 Discord 图形特征研究

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-11-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100836

Jenia Yudytska

{"title":"The interaction of technological affordances and user preferences: A corpus-based study of graphic features across Twitter and Discord","authors":"Jenia Yudytska","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100836","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100836","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the influence of communication device on linguistic variation across two levels of scale. Drawing on the notion of affordances (<span><span>Hutchby, 2001</span></span>), it explores how technological differences between the computer and smartphone may shape, without ultimately determining, the use of graphic features. To do so, the empirical study uses the methodological approach of ‘scaling down’ the analysis of two features across device types: first letter capitalisation and emoji. The first step of analysis is purely quantitative, focusing on linguistic variation in a corpus of a million messages from Twitter (now X). The second step of analysis uses quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the same features within several thousand messages, by two known participants, across the platforms Twitter and Discord. Thus, the study integrates initial results from a large, anonymous corpus with a much smaller but more detailed one. Overall, device affordances are found to influence feature use; however, statistical tendencies regarding variation across device type do not necessarily hold true for each dimension of context or individual. The combination of different scales thus leads to a more thorough understanding of the influence of technology on linguistic variationand its limits in favour of contextual factors and individual preferences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 100836"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142701133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Digital facilitation-as-a-process: The mismatch between promotional text and situated interaction 数字促进即过程：宣传文本与情景互动之间的不匹配

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100834

Elina Salomaa

{"title":"Digital facilitation-as-a-process: The mismatch between promotional text and situated interaction","authors":"Elina Salomaa","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100834","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines facilitation-as-a-process, which is characterized by its aims to challenge the traditional top-down leadership formats by empowering employees to achieve their goals without control. In this sense, the idea of facilitation reflects the ideologies of the New Work Order. By looking at both a promotional website of a digital platform and the use of this platform in situated interaction, the study shows how these ideologies are (re)constructed in and through promotional texts and how the claims are or are not enacted in actual in-situ interaction in two organizations. Drawing on critical discursive psychology and the distinction of Discourses (big-D) and discourse (little-d), it is first shown that New Work Order ideals are reconstructed on the website by relying on two key Discourses: The Discourse of Empowerment and the Discourse of Textualization. Secondly, using authentic chat discussions from two organizations, it is shown that the organizations do not orient to these ideologies presented on the website, but rather maintain and reproduce more traditional patterns of interaction, similar to, for example, classroom interaction. In this respect, the study shows how the promise of changing the traditional leadership formats and empowering employees, as presented in the facilitation literature and the platform’s promotional texts, remains purely ideological.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 100834"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142445601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perspectivization in the thematic exploration of atypical depressive self-talk in an unmanaged online depression community on Weibo 在一个无人管理的微博抑郁社区中对非典型抑郁自言自语进行主题探索的透视化研究

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Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2024-09-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2024.100820

Yating Chen, Charity Lee, Pei Soo Ang

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