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Digital Issue Mapping

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Issue mapping is a concept to study the social connections made when actors interact and create bonds. It asks how a matter of “fact” becomes a matter of “concern” when connections are made, and can be an especially fruitful way to study online culture and phenomena.

Multimodal Discourse Analysis

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Multimodal discourse analysis is a method that takes into account multiple modes of communication and how they interact with one another.

Intertextuality

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Intertextuality occurs whenever we observe material from one text occur in other texts, explicitly as well as implicitly.

Chronotope

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A chronotope, as defined by Bakhtin, is a specific spacetime context enabling a plot, characters, and rules for action and meaning.

Coevalness

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The term coevalness refers to sharing the same timeframe. Much like 'medieval' refers to the middle ages, co-eval refers to a shared age.

Ethnography

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Ethnography can be defined as the small-scale study of human behavior through "clinical" observation and intersubjective participation.

Discourse

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Discourse can be seen as language-in-action, something that is effectively used in communication.

TikTok's inverted filter: debunking symmetry as beauty standard

Paper

Kelly Burnet

07/11/2022

10 minutes to read

In this paper, discourse analysis is done on two TikTok entries to the inverted filter trend that became very popular in April 2021. By showing facial asymmetry as normal, Aubrey Ober gave a twist to the trend and recycled the trend's meaning.

Tommaso Venturini on Controversy Mapping

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The Editors

19/09/2022

Tommaso Venturini avoided questions about the meaning of 'controversies' and 'Controversy Mapping'. But that's no longer the case. In this video, he explains what 'Controversy Mapping' is and why it is relevant.

It's Giving Gay? - On the discourse about Shawn Mendes' sexuality

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Jitske Verhagen

06/05/2022

11 minutes to read

In this paper, the discourse that emerged as a result of Shawn Mendes saying 'it's giving Cher' in his Vogue Met Gala video will be analysed. A look will be taken into why this led to people thinking he must be queer.

Being transracial: how fluid is the cultural category of race?

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Iris Olde Hampsink

02/05/2022

13 minutes to read

This article analyzes the discourse surrounding transracial identities by examining the multimodal and indexical qualities of Oli London's YouTube video 'Being KOREAN...', a fan's 'coming out', and two anti-transracial comments.

Changes in attitude towards the government during the COVID-19 pandemic: A UK case study

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Juul Seuren

Tessa Visser

Lotte Hellebrekers

Mai Khanh Linh Nguyen

10/09/2021

46 minutes to read

In this paper we used the mixed-method ethnomining to answer the research question: How have UK citizens' attitudes towards the government changed over the course of the first and second lockdown, due to the COVID-19 measures?

Jan Blommaert, in memoriam, sociolinguistics,

Semiotic futures: celebrating Jan Blommaert’s radical scholarship

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Ana Deumert

05/01/2021

8 minutes to read

In this column Ana Deumert pays tribute to Jan Blommaert's scholareship, focusing on the text From Fieldnotes to Grammar (2013), and the possibility of formulating a 'new science of language'.

The monolingual bias in studies on populism

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Juan Eduardo Bonnin

30/01/2020

4 minutes to read

Scholarly articles written in English about populism often forget linguistic and discursive diversity. Drawing from a monolingual tradition, they tend to overlook linguistic and discursive diversity in the political processes they study.

Lauren Zentz on Digital Culture in 2018 and 2019

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Lauren Zentz

14/12/2018

In this interview Lauren Zentz shares her thoughts about the impact of digital culture, and talks about her hopes for the future. For instance, she hopes that her work will contribute to our understandings of how to conduct sociolinguistic and ethnographic research that accounts for the power and even the ubiquity of the internet in many people’s daily lives.