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Researching Language and Social Media Ruth Page

Researching Language and Social Media By Ruth Page

Researching Language and Social Media by Ruth Page

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This highly accessible guidebook outlines the practical steps and ethical guidelines entailed when gathering linguistic data from social media sites and platforms. This timely book is an essential guide for students of English language and linguistics, media and communication studies.

Researching Language and Social Media Summary

Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide by Ruth Page

* a timely and fully updated guide to researching the area of language and social media, co-authored by leading authorities
*social media is an intrinsic part of a growing range of disciplines, and social media analysis is being increasingly taught on a variety of courses
*this is the only book to combine practical steps with cutting-edge examples and illustrative case-studies, making it the best choice to help students analyse language found in social media contexts

Researching Language and Social Media Reviews

Written by some of the foremost researchers and experienced teachers in the field this thoroughly revised edition includes new forms of digital communication and cultures as well as emergent methods of research while continuing to provide a highly accessible resource to those studying and researching language and social media.

Richard Fitzgerald, University of Macau, China

Recently updated to include an even broader array of platforms and topics, this latest edition of Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide addresses key methodological considerations in studying language in digital contexts. Essential reading for students - and more experienced scholars - interested in researching language online.

Camilla Vasquez, University of South Florida, USA

About Ruth Page

Ruth Page is a Reader at the University of Birmingham, UK, in the Department of English Language and Linguistics. She has written several books including Stories and Social Media (2012).

David Barton is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. He is co-author of Language Online (2013).

Carmen Lee is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her major publications include Language Online (2013, with David Barton) and Multilingualism Online (2017).

Johann Wolfgang Unger is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. His most recent publication is 'Digitally mediated discourse analysis' in Researching Discourse (Routledge, 2020).

Michele Zappavigna is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. What is social media?

2. What might a linguist say about social media?

3. What does it mean to research?

4. What are Internet research ethics?

5. Analysing Discourse: Qualitative approaches

6. What are ethnographic approaches?

7. Carrying out a study of language practices on social media?

8. Collecting social media materials for quantitative projects

9. Working with social media data: quantitative perspectives

Index

Additional information

NPB9780367640095
9780367640095
0367640090
Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide by Ruth Page
Ruth Page
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-02-28
210
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