The shared story of #JeSuisAylan on Twitter

Γιαξόγλου, Κορίνα; Spilioti, Tereza

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“…“The potential for users to participate in interaction and to contribute content is perhaps the main defining characteristic of social media” (Landert, 2017, p. 31). In the circulation of visual small stories (iconic image of Alan Kurdi) on Twitter, users are found to participate in sharing and spreading the story by commenting, resharing, and replying (Giaxoglou & Spilioti, 2020).…”

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“…"The potential for users to participate in interaction and to contribute content is perhaps the main defining characteristic of social media" (Landert, 2017, p. 31). In the circulation of visual small stories (iconic image of Alan Kurdi) on Twitter, users are found to participate in sharing and spreading the story by commenting, resharing, and replying (Giaxoglou & Spilioti, 2020). The technology of social media provides affordances for users, such as Twitter's 140-character limit (Bucher & Helmond, 2018), hashtag #, addressing @, emoji, and emoticons, among others.…”

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Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis

Wang

Feng

2021

SAGE Open

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This study aimed to present the status quo of linguistic studies on social media in the past decade. In particular, it conducted a bibliometric analysis of articles from the field of linguistics of the database of Web of Science Core Collection with the aid of the tool CiteSpace to identify the general characteristics, major strands of linguistics, main research methods, and important research themes in the area of linguistic studies on social media. The main findings are summarized as follows. First, the study reported the publication trend, main publication venues, researched social media platforms, and languages used in researched social media. Second, sociolinguistics and pragmatics were found to be major strands of linguistics used in relevant studies. Third, the study identified seven main research methods: discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, multimodal analysis, narrative analysis, ethnographic analysis, and corpus analysis. Fourth, important research themes were extracted and classified based on four dimensions of the genre framework of social media studies. They were the participation nature and technology affordances of social media in the dimension of compositional level, the researched topics of education, (language) policy and politics in the dimension of thematic orientations, the researched discursive practices of (im)politeness, humor, indexicality and multilingualism in the dimension of stylistic traits, and the researched communicative functions of constructing identity, communicating (language) ideology, and expressing attitude in the pragmatic dimension. Moreover, linguistic studies on social media tended to be characterized by cross-disciplinary and mixed-method approaches.

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Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis

Wang

Feng

2021

SAGE Open

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“…Currently, where researchers are restricted to fieldwork outside their houses, social media can be a vehicle in analyzing small stories using visual small stories. Through hashtags and shared stories of netizens, it is possible to unpack these stories and be analyzed in different forms (Giaxoglou & Spilioti, 2020). Since COVID-19 is the talk of the town in the present times, it is interesting to look for a small story that shows emergence in fighting the virus.…”

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Analyzing the Story of a Filipino COVID-19 Survivor through Positioning Analysis

Pontillas¹

2023

J. Educ., Mngt., and Dev. Studies

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COVID-19 has brought so many changes in the world. It is a test of faith and hope to everyone. Many scholars have used different lenses in fields of research in this topic. In language studies, many have zoomed in on this topic in corpus-based linguistics. In discourse analysis, few studies have dealt with this, especially narrative analysis. Using the frameworks of Bamberg (1997) and Barkhuizen (2009), three levels of positioning analysis were unpacked by a COVID-19 survivor’s life story. The first level of positioning answers how the characters positioned themselves concerning the events that happened. On the other hand, the second level of positioning seeks to answer how the characters positioned themselves to the audience. Lastly, the third level of positioning aims to position narrators to themselves. The participant was a student of the researcher who agreed to share his story in this paper. The main character almost lost his life due to COVID-19 and was hospitalized for nearly two weeks. The researcher discovered linguistic elements present during the interview, such as linguistic politeness, transitional devices, metaphors, and discourse particles, that helped the researcher analyze and unpack the three levels of positioning analysis. The actual occurrences that happened to the participant served as a turning point in his experience–from non-believer to believer of COVID-19. The paper further explored how COVID-19 became a test of faith, love, and hope to the participant.

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Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups

Ren

2024

Journal of Pragmatics

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The shared story of #JeSuisAylan on Twitter

Cited by 10 publications

References 34 publications

Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis

Linguistic Studies on Social Media: A Bibliometric Analysis

Analyzing the Story of a Filipino COVID-19 Survivor through Positioning Analysis

Low spirits vs. high spirits: How failure and success influence sharing in social media groups

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