General Introduction |
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0.1 Origins of the Project |
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0.2 The Issue and the Research Question |
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0.3.2 Discursive Analyses of (Media) Representations of Social Media |
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0.3.3 Computer-Mediated Communication / Digital Discourse |
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0.5 Presentation of the International Team and Outline of the Work |
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PART 1 Theoretical Framework and Methodology |
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1 Discourse Analyses and Key Research Concepts |
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1.1 Insights in Two Analytical Perspectives of Discourses |
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1.1.1 The French School of Discourse Analysis |
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1.1.2 Critical Discourse Analysis vs. French Discourse Analysis |
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1.2 Discursive Construction of Social Reality |
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1.2.1 Discursive Exposure and Construction of Reality |
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1.2.2 The Communication Scheme and Transmission of Information |
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1.2.2.1 The Communication Scheme |
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1.2.3 The Notion of Social Representations: Definition and Characteristics |
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1.2.4 The Concept of Glocalisation |
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1.3 The Media Discourse and its Particularities |
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1.3.1 Media Discourse and Interdiscursivity |
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1.3.2 Discursive Strategies: The "Effects of Facts" and the "Effects of the Real" |
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1.3.3 The Notion of Didacticity |
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2.1 The Choice of the Free Daily Newspaper Metro |
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2.2 From the Existent Corpus to the Reference Corpus |
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2.3 The Particularities of the Reference Corpus |
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2.5 From Macro-Views for an Ecological Approach to the Methodological Device |
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2.5.1 The Front Page of the Newspaper |
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2.6 To the Micro-Views for the Analysis of the Data |
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2.6.1 The Semiotic Markers |
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PART 2 Contextualisation of and Macro-Level Analysis of the Object of Study |
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3 The Three Editions of Metro and the Editors' Perspective |
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3.1 Metro Newspapers in a Nutshell |
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3.2 The Perspective of Metro Editors |
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3.2.1 Overall Characteristics |
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3.2.2 Readership in the Three Countries |
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3.2.3 Metro in the Local Newspaper Scene |
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3.2.4 News-Making Processes |
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3.2.5 Editors' Views on Social Media |
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66 | (1) |
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66 | (4) |
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67 | (1) |
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4 The Emergence and Evolution of a New Discourse Object (2007--2011) |
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4.1 Facebook and Twitter in Metro Helsinki |
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4.1.1 Corpus in Figures: The Big Picture |
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4.1.1.1 The Different Newspaper Sections |
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4.1.1.2 National and International News in the Finnish Corpus |
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4.1.2 Taking a Closer Look: Approaching the Corpus through the Headlines |
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4.1.2.1 From Facebook to FB |
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4.1.2.1.1 Facebook as a Place for both Slander and Support |
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4.1.2.1.2 Facebook as an Active Agent in Society |
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4.1.2.1.3 New Facebook Words |
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4.1.2.1.4 From Facebook to "FB" |
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4.1.2.1.5 Following the Success, whilst Headlining the Problems |
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4.1.2.2 From Tweets about News to Tweets about Celebrities |
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4.1.2.2.1 Twitter as Arena and Agent |
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4.1.2.2.2 Twitter as Object of Criticism and Doubt |
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4.1.2.2.3 Twitter as "Tweeting" |
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4.1.2.2.4 From Twitter News to Celebrity News |
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4.1.3 Emergence and Evolution: Facebook and Twitter in the Articles of Metro Helsinki |
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4.1.3.1 Year 2007: Introducing Facebook -- From an Internet Curiosity to an Extensive Online Community |
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4.1.3.2 Year 2008: Facebook's Growing Business and New Ways of Using Social Media |
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4.1.3.3.1 Ever-Growing Popularity Tinged with Criticism towards Facebook, Inc. |
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4.1.3.3.2 Twitter's Popularity Abroad and Unpopularity in Finland |
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4.1.3.4.1 Facebook: Columns, Stars and Threats |
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87 | (1) |
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4.1.3.4.2 Athletes Join the Celebrities on Twitter |
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4.1.3.5.1 Facebook Misuse: From Teenagers to Politicians |
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4.1.3.5.2 Twitter and the "Evolution of Social Media" |
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4.1.3.5.3 The Evolution of Social Media |
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4.1.4 Specificities of the Finnish Corpus |
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4.1.4.1 Reader Participation in the Finnish Edition |
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4.1.4.2 Editor's Views on Changing Media Habits and the Future of the Press |
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4.1.4.2.1 Defining the Challenge: Media Consumption Revolutionised by Social Media |
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4.1.4.2.2 The Youth at the Head of New Media Culture |
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4.1.4.2.3 Rising to the Challenge: Locality and Reader Participation in Metro |
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4.2 Facebook and Twitter in Metro Paris |
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4.2.1 Overview of Quantitative Data |
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102 | (3) |
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4.2.2 From Quantitative to Qualitative, Starting with the Titles |
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4.2.2.1 From Failbook to Facebook's Success Story |
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4.2.2.1.1 Facebook: A Thriving Economic Success |
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106 | (1) |
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4.2.2.1.2 Facebook: A Dangerous Medium (Focus on Security, Dangers) |
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106 | (1) |
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4.2.2.1.3 Education about Facebook |
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107 | (1) |
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4.2.2.2 Politics in the Age of Twitter - Lauren Bacall Would Tweet Too |
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107 | (1) |
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4.2.3 Facebook and Twitter in the Body of the Articles, Year after Year |
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108 | (1) |
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4.2.3.1 Year 2007: A Timid Start Marked by Paradox |
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108 | (2) |
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4.2.3.2 Year 2008: Facebook Continues its Quiet Entry and Twitter Appears |
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4.2.3.2.1 How the Social Media Concept Appears in Different Lights |
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4.2.3.2.2 Rise of FB as a Political Tool |
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4.2.3.2.3 Presenting FB and Twitter from a Pedagogical Angle |
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111 | (1) |
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4.2.3.2.4 Facebook as a Contact or a Reference |
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111 | (1) |
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112 | (1) |
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4.2.3.3.1 Facebook, a Medium for Mass Mobilisation |
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112 | (3) |
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4.2.3.3.2 Twitter Enters Politics Beginning in June |
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4.2.3.4.1 Facebook: A Medium for Mass Mobilisations that Must Be Mastered |
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116 | (1) |
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4.2.3.4.2 Twitter, a Medium for Celebrities |
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117 | (1) |
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118 | (1) |
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4.2.3.5.1 Facebook, a Medium for Celebrities and Politics |
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119 | (1) |
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4.2.3.5.2 Twitter: Birth of a Feature, "Twittoscope", a New Political Barometer |
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120 | (1) |
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4.2.4 Specificities of the French Corpus |
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121 | (1) |
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4.2.4.1 Didactic Discourse |
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121 | (1) |
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4.2.4.1.1 Journalistic Expertise in the Titles |
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4.2.4.1.2 Articles that Transmit Knowledge |
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122 | (1) |
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4.2.4.1.3 Advice and a Warning |
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4.2.4.1.4 Educational Intent Clearly Accepted by the Editor-in-Chief |
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123 | (1) |
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4.2.4.2 "Twittoscope": A Section Unique to Metro Paris |
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4.2.4.2.1 General Presentation |
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123 | (1) |
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4.2.4.2.2 The Column's Discourse Characteristics |
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124 | (1) |
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125 | (2) |
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4.3 Facebook and Twitter in Metro Athens |
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127 | (32) |
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4.3.1 Focus on the Quantitative Data |
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127 | (2) |
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4.3.1.1 The Different Newspaper Sections |
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129 | (1) |
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4.3.1.2 National and International News in the Greek Corpus |
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130 | (2) |
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4.3.2 From Quantitative to Qualitative: Entry by Titles |
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132 | (1) |
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4.3.2.1 Facebook: A Multifunctional Anthropomorphic Space |
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4.3.2.1.1 Facebook as a Space in its Own Right |
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133 | (1) |
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4.3.2.1.2 The Anthropomorphism of Facebook |
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134 | (1) |
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4.3.2.1.3 The Facebook Company |
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134 | (1) |
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4.3.2.2 Twitter: Gossip, Humour and Addiction |
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135 | (1) |
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4.3.2.2.1 Twitter, the Space for Gossip |
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4.3.2.2.2 The Humour of Twitter |
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4.3.2.2.3 Twitter: a New Addiction |
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4.3.3 The Subjects of "Facebook" and "Twitter" Discourse in the Body of the Articles |
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4.3.3.1 Year 2008: Facebook Evidence |
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4.3.3.2.1 Facebook: Capable of Good and Evil |
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4.3.3.2.2 Twitter: A Dynamic Entry into the Lives of the Stars |
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4.3.3.3.1 Facebook: Interact, Share, Take Part |
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143 | (3) |
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4.3.3.3.2 Twitter: On the Brink of the Omnipresence of [ Famous] People, Political News |
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146 | (2) |
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148 | (1) |
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4.3.3.4.1 Facebook: Towards Admission to Adulthood |
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148 | (3) |
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4.3.3.4.2 Twitter: Gossiping, Brawling, Shouting, etc. |
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151 | (2) |
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4.3.4 Specificities of the Greek Corpus |
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153 | (1) |
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4.3.4.2 The Absence of Mediation |
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154 | (2) |
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156 | (3) |
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PART 3 Social Media Representations in Three Different Discursive Spaces |
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159 | (107) |
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5 Networking: Social Media and Representations of Professional Life |
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161 | (32) |
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5.1 "Social Media and Working Life" in the Three Editions of Metro: An Overview |
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5.1.1 Three National Corpora in Figures |
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162 | (2) |
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5.1.2 Different Sub-Themes |
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164 | (1) |
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5.2 Job Search Advice for Readers |
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165 | (1) |
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5.2.1 Promoting Advantages While Acknowledging Risks |
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165 | (3) |
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5.2.2 Instructions, Warnings and Encouragements: A Didactic Approach |
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168 | (3) |
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5.2.3 Who is Advised? Who Are the Users? |
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171 | (2) |
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5.3 Model Users and Usages |
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173 | (8) |
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5.3.1 Police as Users of Social Media - A Legitimating Discourse |
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173 | (5) |
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5.3.2 "Surfing Becomes a Real Vocation" - Creating Opportunities and Enabling Individuals |
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178 | (2) |
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5.3.3 Dynamic Male Entrepreneurs as Model Users |
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180 | (1) |
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5.4 Wanted: Social Media Etiquette |
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181 | (8) |
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5.4.1 Confusion and Confrontations |
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182 | (4) |
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5.4.2 E-Reputation and the Inevitable Digital Identity |
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186 | (3) |
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189 | (4) |
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6 Social Media and Mass Mobilisations |
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193 | (32) |
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6.1 Presentation of Global Corpus |
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193 | (4) |
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6.1.1 Different Types of Movements |
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195 | (1) |
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6.1.1.1 Social Media and International Mobilisations |
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195 | (1) |
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6.1.1.2 Social Media and National Political Movements |
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196 | (1) |
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6.1.1.3 Social Media and Celebratory Movements |
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196 | (1) |
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6.1.2 Articles Reflecting on the Connection Between Social Media and Movements |
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196 | (1) |
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6.2 Social Media's Openness to the World |
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6.2.1 Mass Mobilisation via Social Networking Sites: Ideas from Abroad |
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197 | (1) |
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6.2.1.1 In France: A Broad Geographical Spectrum, from Colombia to Russia |
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198 | (1) |
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6.2.1.2 For Greece, Mobilisations Come from Southern Europe |
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199 | (3) |
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6.2.1.3 In Finland: Echoes of Spain and Northern Countries (Canada, Norway, Russia) |
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202 | (2) |
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6.2.2 Mass Mobilisation via Social Media: Ideas that Spread to Other Countries |
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204 | (4) |
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6.3 Creating New Forms of Meeting in France and Finland |
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208 | (5) |
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6.3.1 France, the Aperitif Phenomenon |
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208 | (3) |
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6.3.2 In Finland: Many Ideas, for the Public Good or for Partying... |
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211 | (1) |
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6.3.3 Combined with More Classic Demonstrations against Political Figures |
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212 | (1) |
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6.4 Excesses, Regulation and Recycling |
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213 | (1) |
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6.4.1 France: Progressively Increasing Intervention by Law Enforcement |
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213 | (2) |
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6.4.2 Finland: Encouraging Citizen Responsibility and Regulation |
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215 | (2) |
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6.4.3 Co-opting Movements in France: From the Aperitif Phenomenon to the Sausage/Red Wine Aperitif of the Extreme Right |
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217 | (5) |
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222 | (3) |
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6.5.1 Similarities and Commonalities Between Countries |
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222 | (1) |
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6.5.2 Specificities by Country |
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223 | (2) |
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7 Social Media and the Arab Spring |
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225 | (41) |
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7.1 Presentation of the Corpus from Three Countries |
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226 | (2) |
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7.1.1 Number and Publication Dates of Articles |
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226 | (1) |
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7.1.2 Newspaper Sections, Size and Types |
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227 | (1) |
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7.2 Delving into The Corpus Through |
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228 | (8) |
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228 | (1) |
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7.2.1.1 Digital and Social Media in the Titles |
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228 | (1) |
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7.2.1.2 Overview of the Titles |
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229 | (1) |
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7.2.1.2.1 Finland: Beyond Revolution |
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230 | (1) |
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7.2.1.2.2 France: Making a Saga of the Arab Spring |
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231 | (1) |
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7.2.1.2.3 Greece: Moving Readers |
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232 | (1) |
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233 | (1) |
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7.2.2.1 Finland: Champions of the Day After |
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233 | (1) |
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7.2.2.2 France: From Didactic to Pathos |
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234 | (1) |
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7.2.2.3 Greece: Condemning Intolerance |
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235 | (1) |
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7.3 Towards a Granular Analysis: The Text Body |
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236 | (26) |
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7.3.1 The Arab Spring as Seen by |
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237 | (1) |
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238 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (2) |
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7.3.2 Social Media and the Arab Spring: Roles, Images, Impact |
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242 | (1) |
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7.3.2.1 Finland: Moderate Mention Made of Social Media |
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242 | (2) |
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7.3.2.2 France: Combat Repression, Fight for Freedom (of Expression) |
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244 | (4) |
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7.3.2.3 Greece: Post-Revolution Takes Pride of Place |
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248 | (4) |
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7.3.3 Opinion Articles: A Special Case |
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252 | (1) |
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7.3.3.1 Finland: Emerging from its Cocoon |
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252 | (2) |
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7.3.3.2 France: Demand and Inform |
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254 | (3) |
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7.3.3.3 Greece: Anti-Imperialism and Singing the Praises of Youth |
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257 | (5) |
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262 | (4) |
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266 | (9) |
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1 Research Questions and the Main Findings of the Study |
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266 | (4) |
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2 Limitations of this Study |
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270 | (1) |
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3 Free Newspapers and Social Media in the Year 2020 |
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271 | (4) |
Bibliography |
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Appendix A Metro Editors - Interview Questions |
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Appendix B Titles with Keywords "Facebook" and "Twitter" in the Three National Corpora (2007--2011) |
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285 | (1) |
B1 Metro Helsinki |
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285 | (1) |
B1.1 Titles with "Facebook" |
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285 | (2) |
B1.2 Titles with "Twitter" |
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287 | (1) |
B2 Metro Paris |
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288 | (1) |
B2.1 Titles with "Facebook" |
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288 | (1) |
B2.2 Titles with "Twitter" |
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289 | (1) |
B3 Metro Athens |
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290 | (1) |
B3.1 Titles with "Facebook" |
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290 | (1) |
B3.2 Titles with "Twitter" |
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291 | (2) |
Index (Author and Keyword) |
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