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[ecrea] CFP: Social Media, Discourse and Culture

Wed Jul 02 15:40:50 GMT 2014





The /Journal of Multicultural Discourses/ is playing an important role in promoting the role of culture in discourse studies. Different cultural communities interact differently, in terms of worldviews, concepts, values, rules, strategies, means, channels, purposes and consequences. And in and between all these communities there are inequalities and power relations that discourse researchers can and should reveal. Yet at the same time we live in a world dominated by some key kinds of power relations, specifically with the continued dominance and global spread of American-Western free-market capitalism and media formats and styles. What may not be so important is how and if people are different, but the power relations they inhabit are.


For this special edition of /Journal of Multicultural Discourses /authors are invited to submit abstracts that offer new insights into how social media can reveal, foster, facilitate or suppress, culturally specific kinds of communication, identity expression, forms of social relations, intercultural understandings and discourses. In social media such as Facebook or Twitter who speaks and how, what social position is taken, what is said and not said? And importantly in the case of social media how does this evolve over interactions and what kinds of engagement between users take place? What kinds of cultural norms, patterns, relations, rules and values are revealed and through what kinds of discourses, genres and modes?


Papers are welcome from across disciplines and methods that deal with discourse and communication, though it is preferred that there is close linguistic, multimodal or semiotic analysis. At the same time, papers that use ethnography, or political economic approaches are welcome, too. Topics can be as broad as those found on social media. Studies can be of the smaller details of conversation but also those that point to broader changes and patterns in use and participation, issues of resistance, off-line/ on-line relations, community management, patterns in uses of platforms and language style itself.


Please send abstracts (300-450 words) directly to the guest editor Gwen Bouvier (gwen.bouvier /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(gwen.bouvier /at/ gmail.com)>.


Deadline: 5/08/2014.




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