This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which digital communication facilitate and inform discourses of legitimization and delegitimization in contemporary participatory cultures. The book draws on multiple theoretical traditions from critical discourse analysis to allow for a greater critical engagement of the ways in which values are either justified or criticized on social media platforms across a variety of social milieus, including the personal, political, religious, corporate, and commercial. The volume highlights data from across ten national contexts and a range of online platforms to demonstrate how these discursive practices manifest themselves differently across a range of settings. Taken together, the seventeen chapters in this book offer a more informed understanding of how these discursive spaces help us to interpret the manner in which digital communication can be used to legitimize or delegitimize, making this book an ideal resource for students and scholars in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, new media, and media production.
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| Introduction: (De)Legitimization and Participation in the Digitized Public Sphere |
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PART I Participatory Language Use Online and Discursive Positioning |
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1 (De)Legitimizing Language Uses in Language Ideological Debates Online |
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2 Persuasion by Commonality: Legitimizing Actions Through Discourse on Common Sense in a Japanese Advice Forum |
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3 A Name Rightly Given? The Use, Abuse, and Adoption of the Term "Cybernat" During the Scottish Referendum Debate |
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4 Online Performances of Expertise by Sustainability Practitioners: Tracing Communicative Episodes of Professional (De)Legitimization |
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PART II Discursive (De)Legitimization Through Social Media Participation |
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5 "Stop the Boats": Internet Memes as Case Study of Multimodal Delegitimization of Australian Refugee Policy Rhetoric |
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6 Understanding Participatory Culture Through Hashtag Activism After the Orlando Pulse Tragedy |
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7 Digital Narratives of Struggle and Legitimacy in the Arab Spring |
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8 Not the Desired Offspring: #FertilityDay, the Italian Ministry of Health and the Campaign That Wasn't |
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9 Nike Y U No Do It Yourself: Decrowning Brands by Means of Memes |
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PART III (De)Legitimization in Production, Participation and Performance |
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10 Always On, but Never There? Political Parody, the Carnivalesque and the Rise of the "Nectorate" |
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11 Trolling as Creative Insurgency: The Carnivalesque Delegitimization of Putin and His Supporters in Online Newspaper Commentary |
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12 Political Cartoons as Creative Insurgency: Delegitimization in the Culture of Convergence |
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13 Participation That Makes a Difference and Differences in Participation: Highrise---An Interactive Documentary Project for Change |
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14 Film Festival Participation and Identity Formation: Non-professional Creativity and the Pleasures of Mobile Phone Filmmaking |
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PART IV (De)Legitimizing Participatory Discourses of Religion |
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15 Modding as a Strategy to (De)Legitimize Representations of Religion in the Civilization Game Franchise---A Diachronic Proceduralist Reading |
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16 Identity, Social Media and Religion: (De)Legitimization of Identity Construction Through the Language of Religion |
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| Contributors |
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Andrew S. Ross is a Lecturer in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests are interdisciplinary and varied but include critical discourse studies, political communication, discourses of new media, and sociolinguistics. His work has been published such venues as Communication and Sport, The Language Learning Journal, Journal of Language, Identity and Education, and Discourse, Context and Media, and Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. He is the co-editor of the volume The Sociolinguistics of Hip-Hop as Critical Conscience: Dissatisfaction and Dissent (2017). See www.asross.com
Damian J. Riversis an Associate Professor [ Communication] at Future University Hakodate, Japan. His research interests concern critical pedagogies, the discourse of social media and political communities of participation,and expressions of power within educational philosophy, policy and practice. He is co-author of Beyond Native-Speakerism: Current Explorations and Future Visions (2018, Routledge), editor of Resistance to the Known: Counter-Conduct in Language Education (2015) and co-editor of Isms in Language Education: Oppression, Intersectionality and Emancipation (2017), The Sociolinguistics of Hip-Hop as Critical Conscience: Dissatisfaction and Dissent (2017), Native-Speakerism in Japan: Intergroup Dynamics in Foreign Language Education (2013) and Social Identities and Multiple Selves in Foreign Language Education (2013). Seewww.hakodate7128.com.
