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TY - JOUR
T1 - Contact calls
T2 - Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices
AU - Gillen, Julia
AU - Merchant, Guy
N1 - This is a postprint version of the following article: Gillen, J & Merchant, G. (2013), Contact calls: Twitter as a dialogic social and linguistic practice. Language Sciences, 35, 47-58, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2012.04.015. This article may be used for noncommercial purposes in accordance with Elsevier’s Terms and Conditions for Author Accepted Manuscripts. This paper was named as the top downloaded article in the first half of 2013 in Language Sciences and made available for free download until 31st October 2013. It remained often in the top 10 downloaded articles into 2015.
PY - 2013/1
Y1 - 2013/1
N2 - The rapid adoption of new forms of digital communication is now attracting the attention of researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences. In the landscape of social media, the microblogging application Twitter has rapidly become an accepted feature of everyday life with a broad appeal., This paper, from a dual autoethnography (Davies and Merchant, 2007) over one year, is a reflexive account of the experience of two academic Twitter users. We offer analyses of the functionalities of the semiotic environment and trace how our meaning making practices illuminate Bakhtinian (1986) principles of human communication, while at the same time constituting literacies that are distinctively new in character. We show how communication using Web 2.0 technologies can be described as semiotic and sociolinguistic practice and offer an appropriately dialogic and exploratory methodology to the study of new literacies.
AB - The rapid adoption of new forms of digital communication is now attracting the attention of researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences. In the landscape of social media, the microblogging application Twitter has rapidly become an accepted feature of everyday life with a broad appeal., This paper, from a dual autoethnography (Davies and Merchant, 2007) over one year, is a reflexive account of the experience of two academic Twitter users. We offer analyses of the functionalities of the semiotic environment and trace how our meaning making practices illuminate Bakhtinian (1986) principles of human communication, while at the same time constituting literacies that are distinctively new in character. We show how communication using Web 2.0 technologies can be described as semiotic and sociolinguistic practice and offer an appropriately dialogic and exploratory methodology to the study of new literacies.
KW - literacies
KW - microblogging
KW - social media
KW - writing
KW - Bakhtin
KW - Twitter
KW - social semiotics
U2 - 10.1016/j.langsci.2012.04.015
DO - 10.1016/j.langsci.2012.04.015
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 47
EP - 58
JO - Language Sciences
JF - Language Sciences
SN - 0388-0001
Y2 - 10 April 2013 through 12 April 2013
ER -