scholarly journals Book Review: Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Daniel Pascual
Keyword(s):  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Directions, edited by Bou-Franch and Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, provides orchestrated accounts of current trends in ‘digital discourse’, which seek to understand up-to-date communicative situations occurring online and the manifold affordances at users’ disposal. At the core of the volume lies the necessity to comprehend the latest technological evolutions enacting new forms of digital interaction, which should lead to adapt traditional approaches and adopt innovative, suitable methods to identify and analyse users’ semiotic and discursive practices. Such changes and adaptations are empirically examined in a plethora of digital genres and media from several sociocultural and interpersonal contexts. Therefore, the studies deployed in the book will be undoubtedly of interest to researchers of digital communication and of its prominent medium- and user-dependent characteristics, from several interdisciplinary perspectives including, inter alia, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Discourse Analysis (CMDA), ethnography, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, multimodality, social media analysis and pedagogy. Following the introductory chapter by the editors, the remaining chapters are thematically organised in sections which single out the study of digital discourse from four different vantage points: historical development, multimodality, face and identity, and ideologies triggered by language and media.

scholarly journals Growing Up on Facebook [Book Review]

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey Liberman
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Professional Relationships ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Social ◽  
Construction Of Self

Growing Up on Facebook, authored by Brady Robards and Sian Lincoln, exposes the reader to the role of Computer-Mediated Communication in creating, recreating, and altering the online identities of users. Highlighting the role of self in intimate relationships, professional relationships, and family relationships, Robards and Lincoln discuss such identity markers as friend requests, postings of photos, political discourse, and the creation of profiles, providing the fields of communication, sociology, and social psychology with an overview of the antecedents, processes, and effects of the social construction of self on Facebook.

Digital Storytelling from Artificial Intelligence to YouTube

2011 ◽  
pp. 587-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie D. Woletz
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Intellectual Origins ◽  
Digital Filmmaking

In this chapter, the concept of digital storytelling will be introduced by sketching its historical and intellectual origins from artificial intelligence to current trends. Illustrated by examples and case studies, two main approaches will be presented: a “top down” approach on stories within the context of hightech laboratories and technology, and a “bottom up” approach deriving from private publishing on the Internet such as YouTube’s video stories or the workshop-based digital filmmaking practice hosted by the BBC (UK). The analysis will focus on innovative configurations of media and on the specific implications of video stories on computer mediated communication. Here, the main emphasis will be put on presentation strategies and possible modes of user participation and interaction, with the purpose of clarifying and contributing to future modes of computer mediated storytelling.

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