@IKnowTheseWords: A Twitterbot Textual Performance

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doi:10.21153/ps2016vol2no1art529

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“…Gerbaudo, 2012 andDang-Anh, 2019), and Twitter as a performance space for the creation of an online persona (e.g. De Kosnik &Feldman, 2019 andBurrough, 2016).…”

Section: Twitter and Education Researchmentioning

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Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies

2024

Studies in Digital Interculturality

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The Internet has penetrated material reality to such an extent that it is now often impossible to disentangle the material from the virtual. In this postdigital scenario, the encounter with ›newness‹ becomes accessible at the touch of a button, 24/7. Learning becomes a lifewide experience which allows for the emergence of new culturalities. The contributors to this volume engage with cultural changes brought about by an intensified digitalization process in the context of formal education but also shed light on unexpected contexts in which informal learning experiences take place every day, strengthening diasporas, creating new connections and transforming ourselves and our societies.

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“…Gerbaudo, 2012 andDang-Anh, 2019), and Twitter as a performance space for the creation of an online persona (e.g. De Kosnik &Feldman, 2019 andBurrough, 2016).…”

Section: Twitter and Education Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies

2024

Studies in Digital Interculturality

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“…Gerbaudo, 2012 and Dang-Anh, 2019) and Twitter as a performance space for the creation of an online persona (e.g. De Kosnik and Feldman, 2019 and Burrough, 2016).…”

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Digital Europeanism and extending the literary Europeanist discourse: The Twitter feeds of @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope

Lenehan

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2023

Journal of European Studies

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This article argues that the study of literary Europeanism should be extended to the discourse of wider textual Europeanism, understood here as a digital Europeanism that examines digital texts, in the widest sense, contextualised within the norms of digital culture. The texts emanating on the platform Twitter from two explicitly pro-European/pro-European Union accounts, one German-language and one largely (non-native) anglophone – @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope – were examined from 9 May 2021 to 9 November 2021. In evidence was a type of textual Europeanism that indeed owes a degree of coherence to the norms of digital culture. This was seen in relation to referentiality, that is, the use of already existing and circulating cultural materials for one’s own cultural production. This was evident in commented and uncommented retweets, social TV practices and the Europeanisation of Internet memes. The creation of a sense of communality – the way in which meanings can be stabilised, options for action generated and resources made accessible via a collectively supported frame of reference – is also in evidence and to be seen in the distinct discursive creation of an authoritarian ‘other’. This ‘other’ consists of a temporal ‘other’ – a small number of tweets relating to authoritarianisms of the past; an inner-European Union ‘other’ – tweets relating to movements towards authoritarianism within the European Union, especially in Hungary and Poland; and an external European Union other – tweets relating to authoritarianism on the European Union’s borders, especially in Belarus and Russia.

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Learning About Colonialism by Scrolling?

Lenehan

2024

Studies in Digital Interculturality

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It is here argued that lifewide learning possibilities may also be viewed in relation to social media, not least the plat-form Twitter, recently rebranded as X, and the Twitter/X thread; a number of tweets threaded together to form a longer text which is then communicated to, often, a large number of people. Twitter threads may be seen as a lifewide textual offer containing cosmopolitan potentiality, meaning here the potential for a transformation in per-spective due to contact with others on global issues, as envisioned by Delanty (2008). It is also argued that the Twitter/X thread functions as a type of social media genre, and three specific types of thread are here analyzed: 1) a collectively created type of thread which looks for contributions from numerous followers on Twitter/X, creating a multi-agent text; 2) an individually-created, 'closed' and usually numbered thread; and 3) an individually-created and open and/or open to collectivization thread, to which other tweets may be added at any time. Twitter threads from the curated Indigenous Australian account @IndigenousX, the British-Irish academic Katy Hayward and Irish historian Liam Hogan are analyzed as lifewide textual offers containing cosmopolitan potentiality. The global issue at the centre of all three threads - and accounts - are the contemporary consequences of European colonialism.

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@IKnowTheseWords: A Twitterbot Textual Performance

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Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies

Lifewide Learning in Postdigital Societies

Digital Europeanism and extending the literary Europeanist discourse: The Twitter feeds of @PulseofEurope and @mycountryeurope

Learning About Colonialism by Scrolling?

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