ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|85 pages
Participatory Language Use Online and Discursive Positioning
chapter 2|19 pages
Persuasion by Commonality
chapter 4|17 pages
Online Performances of Expertise by Sustainability Practitioners
part II|107 pages
Discursive (De)Legitimization Through Social Media Participation
chapter 5|23 pages
“Stop the Boats”
chapter 8|18 pages
Not the Desired Offspring
part III|96 pages
(De)Legitimization in Production, Participation and Performance
chapter 11|20 pages
Trolling as Creative Insurgency
chapter 12|21 pages
Political Cartoons as Creative Insurgency
chapter 13|19 pages
Participation That Makes a Difference and Differences in Participation
chapter 14|17 pages
Film Festival Participation and Identity Formation
part IV|40 pages
(De)Legitimizing Participatory Discourses of Religion