Analysing Representations of Social Media in European News Media Discourse

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-02353-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication

This book explores representations of social media in European media discourses across different socio-historical contexts, demonstrating how such analysis can illuminate the tension between global and local in media discourses in today’s globalised world.

The volume draws on data from a trilingual corpus from different editions of the free daily Metro from Finland, France, and Greece spanning a five-year period, with a focus on Facebook and Twitter. Adopting a French discourse analysis approach, which takes as its point of departure the notion of “discourse as the social practice of representing”, the book integrates qualitative and quantitative analyses to investigate the social and political role depictions of social media play in specific socio-historical contexts. This approach brings to the fore both commonalities and differences in the popularity of specific platforms and coverage of specific news topics and hot-button issues. In so doing, the volume elucidates the ways in which global practices become integrated and immersed into local contexts, offering avenues for future research on social media in news discourses.

This book will be of interest to scholars in applied linguistics, intercultural communication, discourse analysis, media studies, and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Develotte, Christine

Potolia, Anthippi

Suomela-Salmi, Eija

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General introduction

1. Origins of the project

2. The issue and the research question

3. Related studies

4. Study approach

5. Presentation of the International Team and Outline of the Work

6. Outline of the work

Part 1: Theoretical framework and methodology

Chapter 1: Discourse analyses and key research concepts

1. Insights in two analytical perspectives of discourses

1.1. The French School of Discourse Analysis

1.2. Critical Discourse Analysis vs. French Discourse Analysis

2. Discursive construction of social reality

2.1. Discursive exposure and construction of reality

2.2. The communication scheme and transmission of information

2.3. The notion of social representations: definition and characteristics

2.4. The concept of Glocalisation

3. The media discourse and its particularities

3.1. Media discourse and interdiscursivity

3.2. Discursive strategies: The "effects of facts" and the "effects of the real"

3.3. The notion of didacticity

Chapter 2: Corpus and methodology

1. The choice of the free daily newspaper Metro

2. From the existent corpus to the reference corpus

3. The particularities of the reference corpus

4. The study corpus

5. From macro-views… for an ecological approach to the methodological device

6. To the micro-views… for the analysis of the data

6.1. The semiotic markers

6.2. Linguistic markers

Part 2: Contextualisation of and macro level analysis of the object of study

Chapter 3: The three editions of Metro and the editors’ perspective

1. Metro newspapers in a nutshell

1.1. Metro Helsinki

1.2. Metro Athens

1.3. Metro Paris

2. The perspective of Metro editors

2.1. Overall characteristics

2.2. Readership in the three countries

2.3. Metro in the local newspaper scene

2.4. News-making processes

2.5. Editors’ views on social media

Conclusions

Chapter 4: The emergence and evolution of a new discourse object (2007-2011)

1. Facebook and Twitter in Metro Helsinki

1.1. Corpus in figures: The big picture

1.2. Taking a closer look: Approaching the corpus through the headlines

1.2.1. From Facebook to fb

1.2.2. From tweets about news to tweets about celebrities

1.3. Emergence and evolution: Facebook and Twitter in the articles of Metro Helsinki

1.3.1. Year 2007: Introducing Facebook – from an Internet curiosity to an extensive online community

1.3.2. Year 2008: Facebook’s growing business and new ways of using social media

1.3.3. Year 2009

1.3.3.1. Ever growing popularity tinged with criticism towards Facebook, Inc.

1.3.3.2. Twitter’s popularity abroad and unpopularity in Finland

1.3.4. Year 2010

1.3.4.1. Facebook: Columns, stars and threats

1.3.4.2. Athletes join the celebrities on Twitter

1.3.5. Year 2011

1.3.5.1. Facebook misuse: From teenagers to politicians

1.3.5.2. Twitter and the "evolution of social media"

1.4. Specificities of the Finnish corpus

1.4.1. Reader participation in the Finnish edition

1.4.2. Editor’s views on changing media habits and the future of the press

Conclusion

2. Facebook and Twitter in Metro Paris

2.1. Overview of quantitative data

2.2. From quantitative to qualitative, starting with the titles

2.2.1. From Failbook to Facebook’s s

Über Autor(innen)

Christine Develotte is Emerita Professor of Applied Linguistics (Lyon, France) and member of the ICAR Laboratory.

Anthippi Potolia is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis.

Eija Suomela-Salmi is Emerita Professor of French at the University of Turku, Finland.