Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100698
Le Song, Christian Licoppe
Research has argued that “ordinary conversation” and its organization are foundational to “institutional” talk (Drew & Heritage, 1992), and that institutional forms can be characterized as constraints on such a sequential organization. Such an argument can be extended to technology-mediated interaction, in which participants may orient jointly to “standard” conversational sequences and the technology’s interactional “affordances” to achieve interactional ends. We discuss here how such an interactional goal (closing a technology-mediated encounter) may be achieved in live video streaming. We argue that while participants can be seen to do that in a way that orients to the organization of closings in ordinary conversation, they do so in a way that is sensitive to the affordances of live video streams. We find that: a) Most of the streams involve closing sequences, thus framing the live stream as a social encounter for which closing is relevant; b) A partial and relaxed orientation to talking heads configuration in live stream closings; c) A four-part closing sequence; d) Two different topic development in closing the live streams—a topic message comes from the audience and some “mentionable noticeables” initiated by the streamer.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100701
Sender Dovchin, Dariush Izadi
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100685
Kimberly S. Hansen, Lyana L. Sun Han Chang, A. Suresh Canagarajah
Multilingual interactions on digital platforms such as YouTube reveal complex translingual practices and negotiation strategies on the part of viewers. Two live performances sung in Cape Verdean Creole (Kriolu) by Mayra Andrade, a Cape Verdean music artist, uploaded to YouTube by different digital media platforms generated these types of interactions. These interactions were analyzed by adopting Wortham and Reyes’ (2015) “discourse analysis beyond the speech event” to reveal the extent to which semiotic resources utilized in the performances, and translingual practices and negotiation strategies utilized by the viewers, brought about uptake of the Cape Verdean Creole lyrics and their meaning, and artist identity. The data revealed that viewers negotiated language related themes and artist and viewer identity in different ways, yet shared similar appreciation for the performances and the artist. Additional concepts, such as phatic communication and nonrepresentational meaning, provide further understanding for viewers’ attitudes towards negotiating meaning and engaging in a digital forum to discuss with others their reactions to and love of the artist’s live performances. The study reveals the diverse semiotic resources adopted by nonlocal audiences to appreciate nonrepresentational meanings to redress the current emphasis on representational meanings and linguistic resources in translingual studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100681
Jungyoon Koh
This study examines how interactions with a “female” chatbot are drawn as a resource for the construction of masculine identity in the context of the South Korean web. I analyze three posts shared in an online community where users of Luda Lee, an open-domain AI chatbot, gather to talk about their interactions with her, often to sexually harass her. Drawing on Kiesling's (2011) discussion of alignment in the discursive construction of gender, I examine alignment in users' interactions with and about Luda as reflective of their desire to achieve and be recognized as achieving dominance over women and other men. My analysis demonstrates how Luda, as a friendly female chatbot, becomes a convenient resource for users to draw on in their construction of masculinity. This study contributes to discussions of masculinity in online discourse, as well as to conversations on ethical considerations in AI on the female gendering and harassment of bots.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100684
Zaib Toyer, Amiena Peck
In 2016 Wayde Van Niekerk, a South African athlete of mixed-race heritage won an Olympic gold medal. In South Africa, his win caused hashtags such as #proudlysouthafrican, #blackexcellence and #colouredexcellence to trend online. By and large, these hashtags index the ongoing competitive discourses regarding nationalism, race and culture in Cape Town (cf. Author, 2018).
Amongst these hashtags, however, was #dalawhatyoumust, a Kaaps hashtag generally meaning to “do what needs to be done”. Unlike the aforementioned hashtags, this one seems to cross the linguistic and racial divide despite its strong associations with Coloured1 people on the Cape Flats. The seemingly effortless uptake of this hashtag by diverse South Africans suggest that it has somehow become unmoored of its ethnic and linguistic inception.
We explore the use of this Kaaps hashtag as a form of translingual practice which is affect-laden and transportable across and between diverse users online and which promotes a particular “cool Capetonian” culture. Analyzing select posts from the #dalawhatyoumust thread on Facebook, we provide a nuanced look at #dalawhatyoumust as an uplifting genre which proleptically advises nameless viewers of the importance of self-actualization, determination and aspiration. Additionally, we include Goffman’s (1974) framing foundation to investigate how positivistic discourse has been rhizomatically taken up by a ‘realm’ of implicit collective users online. This research interrogates long-held ideological boundaries between Kaaps and legitimized Standard Afrikaans and standard English.
We conclude with a focus on Kaaps hashtags as semiotic acts of Linguistic Citizenship (cf. Williams and Stroud, 2013) which allows for the conjoining of Kaaps with diverse audiences, complex trajectories, and an assortment of accompanying semiotics. Following Stroud (2018:3) we argue that this Kaaps hashtag has become a form of languaging that facilitates “…the building of broad affinities of speakers that cut across…divisions and borders, and that negotiate co-existence/co-habitation outside of common ground in recognition of equivocation”. In South Africa, division was the order of the day and when we explore contemporary ordinary moments posted by heterogenous users using #dalawhatyoumust (henceforth #dwym) we aim to explore the ordinariness of languaging which brings people together despite their race, linguistic background, and ethnicity, that is to say an affinity of ‘cool Capetonian’ style.
2016年,南非混血运动员Wayde Van Niekerk获得奥运会金牌。在南非,他的胜利引发了#proudlysouthafrican、#blackexcellence和#coloredexcellence等话题标签在网上流行。总的来说,这些标签索引了开普敦正在进行的关于民族主义、种族和文化的竞争性话语(参见作者,2018)。然而,在这些标签中,有#dalawhatyoumust,一个Kaaps标签,通常意味着“做需要做的事”。与前面提到的标签不同,这个标签似乎跨越了语言和种族的鸿沟,尽管它与开普平原上的有色人种有着强烈的联系。多样化的南非人似乎毫不费力地接受了这个标签,这表明它在某种程度上已经摆脱了种族和语言的束缚。我们探索了将这个Kaaps标签作为一种跨语言实践的使用,这种实践充满了情感,可以在不同的在线用户之间传播,并促进了一种特殊的“酷卡佩顿”文化。通过分析脸书上#dalawhatyoumust帖子中的精选帖子,我们可以细致入微地看到#dalawhasyoumust是一种令人振奋的类型,它向无名观众暗示自我实现、决心和抱负的重要性。此外,我们还包括了Goffman(1974)的框架基金会,以调查实证主义话语是如何被隐含的在线集体用户的“领域”所扎根的。这项研究质疑了Kaaps与合法化的标准南非荷兰语和标准英语之间长期存在的意识形态界限。最后,我们将重点放在Kaaps标签上,将其作为语言公民的符号行为(参见Williams和Stroud,2013),这允许Kaaps结合不同的受众、复杂的轨迹和各种伴随的符号学。继斯特劳德(2018:3)之后,我们认为,这个Kaaps标签已经成为一种语言形式,它促进了“……跨越……分歧和边界,在共同点之外谈判共存/共同居住,以承认模棱两可”。在南非,分裂是一种秩序,当我们使用#dalawhatyoumust(以下简称#dwym)探索异质用户发布的当代普通时刻时,我们的目标是探索语言的平凡性,它将人们聚集在一起,而不考虑他们的种族、语言背景和民族,也就是说,这是一种“酷的卡佩顿人”风格的亲和力。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100670
Marta Dynel , Michele Zappavigna
Despite the abundance of research into conspiracy theories, including multiple studies of Covid-19 conspiracy theories in particular, user reactions to conspiracy theories are an underexplored area of social media discourse. This study aims to fill this gap by examining a dataset of humorous responses to proliferating COVID-19 conspiracy theories based on a corpus of tweets bearing the pejorative hashtag #CovidConspiracy. We report the complex orchestration of heteroglossic discursive voices in these posts to reveal their rhetorical function, oriented towards expressing a negative stance and, in some cases, amounting to ridicule. The discursive effects of this interplay of voices entail imitation, parody, mockery and irony on the micro level, while on the interactional (macro) level, anti-conspiracy tweets jointly enact what we dub “polyvocal scorn”. It expresses multiple users’ trenchant critique and contempt for conspiracy theories, while the humour of the tweets serves to display the users’ wit and superiority over conspiracy theorists.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100686
Miriam A. Locher, Thomas C. Messerli
The community of users on Viki.com, a video streaming platform distributing Asian television to an international audience, use the site to engage with streams of television dramas. Rather than just being passive consumers, viewers interact in a range of different ways, among them the use of Timed Comments (TC). TCs are comments viewers post while viewing dramas. Subsequent viewers can read these comments when streaming the same episode. Users can read and respond to comments by previous viewers as if they were written at the time of watching (similar to Danmaku). Building on our previous work on Viki-TCs, we have framed the community mainly as a harmonious collective engaging with artefacts from a different cultural and linguistic context. In this study, we focus on the creation of pseudo-synchronicity by looking at interactivity between TC writers and in particular on those TCs that construct conflict. Our corpus consists of 320,000 multilingual, but predominantly English comments. We make use of an exhaustively annotated sample of 8,930 comments to extract and formalize patterns of implicit and explicit interaction and locate them in the larger corpus using corpus linguistic methods. Special attention is given to conflictual interaction in connection with plot spoilers, judgments on co-viewers’ analytic and experiential skills and inappropriate language usage, negative comments on actor appearance, commenters using the space for fan interaction outside of the drama-scope and the technical use of the platform. These conflictual interactions often function as negotiations of the platform norms, socialize viewers into how the space works and can thus also be linked to community building. Our study contributes to understanding better how online fan community norms are built and behavior is sanctioned or (implicitly) condoned through interaction. In this way we contribute both to the study of interaction in a context that works online and asynchronously and to the study of online fan communities.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100668
Stephanie Dryden , Dariush Izadi
In this paper, we present a research approach that sheds light on how netizens on social media perform and negotiate their multimodal and multisemiotic repertoires embedded within their social media languaging practices. This approach brings multimodal social semiotics into conversation with the normativity of translingualism to problematise the notion of languages as being ‘ordinary’ or ‘mundane’, and to illustrate how translingual netizens deploy their knowledge of the features of different language scripts, modalities and ‘small things’ (e.g., the use of emojis, replies, and comments) to increase and exploit their communicative capacity. In order to explore this claim, drawing upon digital ethnography approaches as our guiding methodology, the study investigates a YouTube post and responding comments from Global South settings. We illustrate that the subtext of their translingual practices is influenced by how they move beyond discourses and ideologies from the Global North. The analysis will consider the nature of communication in the aforementioned online communities from historical and contemporary perspectives, focusing on how our participants exploit local linguistic diversity as a resource and on how they extract a piece of text or discourse from its original context and bring it to a new context (i.e., online) and modify this material so that it fits into the new context. This article, therefore, contributes to the emerging body of work on the normativity of translingualism in communities around the world.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100657
Ron Korenaga , Tom Ogawa
This paper explores news production as “participatory journalism” in which ordinary people directly participate via the Internet. While participatory journalism idealises citizens' and journalists’ co-creation, there are said to be limitations such as loss of quality, which results from the insularism of participants. In this paper, we consider the example of a Japanese TV news programme as participatory journalism. The programme reports on the problem of “isolation in connection” — youth’s persistent sense of loneliness despite keeping in touch with many people via online connections. However, the concept of “isolation in connection” presents different versions of the problem such as public projections of personal angst. Therefore, we adopted a combined methodological perspective, including membership categorisation analysis (MCA) and dialogical networks (DNs). Subsequently, we investigated how the programme participants made the problem accountable through categorical descriptions and discursive organisation of interactions among relevant actors in the course of programme sequences. Through this investigation, we elucidate how publicness emerges through the multiplication of personal discourse in the DNs and we consider how news production works through discursive practices in the Japanese milieu.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100664
Shaila Sultana , Ana Deumert
This article is part of a larger study that considers how middle-class Bangladeshi women perform gender in online and offline contexts, the kinds of discourses they draw on, and the translingual resources that they engage with. In developing our argument, we first discuss colonial and post-colonial discourses about South Asian women. These historical discourses are still present in contemporary society and shape gender expectations as well as gender performativity. Four Bangladeshi professional women (aged 28–32) were part of the larger study, which combined digital ethnography with interviews. In this paper, we focus on one participant (called Katrina). We discuss, in detail, one Facebook interaction, where Katrina and her friends playfully subvert the discourses that are traditionally associated with South Asian women; gender expectations are challenged and a variety of semiotic resources are used in the carnivalesque performance of resistance. Following this, we consider the interview data which is less playful and translingual. In the interview resistance against gender norms is articulated differently, not as a playful collective engagement, punctuated with laughter, but as struggle and compromise. We argue that resistance to patriarchal gender norms is thus both ordinary and extraordinary: it is ordinary in the sense that it is everyday, and it is extraordinary in that it draws on highly creative forms of languaging and is embedded in struggles that reach back into history, while at the same time create unsettling anxieties and conflicted experiences in the here-and-now.
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