[Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups

[Pask-Hughes, Alexander]

Hi Ruth,

I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic examples, with a focus beyond self and identity:

Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1).

Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1).

Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language Matters 44(2).


Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis.

I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well...


Alexander David Pask-Hughes

PhD student
Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis

Department of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University

E-mail: a.pask-hughes at lancaster.ac.uk
Twitter: @adpaskhughes

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Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups
Dear AoIR list members,

I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook accounts/wall interactions.

Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social science perspective too.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Ruth

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