Discourse and Digital Practices

Rodney H. Jones is Professor of English at City University of Hong Kong. His main research interests include discourse analysis, health communication and language and sexuality. His books include Discourse in Action: introducing mediated discourse analysis (edited with Sigrid Norris, Routledge, 2005), Understanding Digital Literacies: a practical introduction (with Christoph Hafner, Routledge, 2012), and Health and Risk Communication: an applied linguistic perspective (Routledge, 2013). Alice Chik is Senior Lecturer in The School of Education at Macquarie University. Her main research areas include narrative inquiry, literacy, and popular culture in language education. She is the co-editor of Popular Culture, Pedagogy and Teacher Education: international perspectives (Routledge, 2014).Christoph A. Hafner is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include specialized discourse, digital literacies and language learning and technology. He is co-author of Understanding Digital Literacies: a practical introduction (Routledge, 2012) and co-editor of Transparency, Power and Control: perspectives on legal communication (Ashgate, 2012).

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Discourse Analysis and Digital PracticesRodney H. Jones, Alice Chik, Christoph A. HafnerChapter 2 Discourse Analysis of GamesJames Paul GeeChapter 3 Discourse, Cybernetics, and the Entextualization of the SelfRodney H. JonesChapter 4 Tagging on Flickr as a Social PracticeDavid BartonChapter 5 Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Online Consumer ReviewsCamilla VásquezChapter 6 YouTube as Text: Spoken Interaction Analysis and Digital DiscoursePhil BensonChapter 7 Co-constructing Identity in Virtual Worlds for ChildrenChristoph A. HafnerChapter 8 Recreational Language Learning and Digital Practices: Positioning and RepositioningAlice ChikChapter 9 Investigating Digital Sex-Talk Practices: A Reflection on Corpus-Assisted Discourse AnalysisBrian KingChapter 10 Apps, Adults and Young Children: Researching Digital Literacy Practices in Context Guy Merchant Chapter 11 ‘It’s Changed My Life’: iPhone as Technological ArtefactVictoria CarringtonChapter 12 Digital Discourse@Public Space: Flows of Language Online and OfflineCarmen LeeChapter 13 The Discourse of Celebrity in the Fanvid Ecology of Club Penguin MachinimaJackie MarshChapter 14 Discourse of ‘Curation’ in Digital TimesIlana SynderChapter 15 The Discursive Construction of Education in the Digital AgeNeil Selwyn