[Air-L] social media theories

[Unger, Johann]

Hi Sukaina,

You might be interested in a chapter by Majid KhosraviNik and me, in which we set out some of the theoretical and methodological challenges involved in studying social media from a critical, discursive perspective. One of the examples we use is the Tahrir Square protests (though we don’t have much room to go into it in the chapter, unfortunately):

KhosraviNik, M., & Unger, J. W. (2015). Critical discourse studies and social media: power, resistance and critique in changing media ecologies. In R. Wodak, & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of critical discourse studies. (3rd ed.). London: Sage.

Best, Johnny.

Dr J W Unger
Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Lancaster University
LA1 4YL

e-mail: j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger at lancaster.ac.uk>
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On 17 Apr 2016, at 23:55, Sukaina Ehdeed <smtehdeed1 at sheffield.ac.uk<mailto:smtehdeed1 at sheffield.ac.uk>> wrote:

Hi all,
Are there any theories/models related to social media use/political
communication/information aspects?

I am doing a research in relation to social media use in Libyan revolution
context. My main objectives are:
-To find out how social media has been used among Libyans during the
revolutionary and post-revolutionary period, through conducting
semi-structured interviews and doing content analysis of sample of public
Facebook pages.

-To explore young Libyans’ perception regarding the impact of social media
on their views and attitudes in relation to the revolution and
post-revolutionary period.

Do you have any suggestions? Will be helpful for me if you share your
knowledge.

Thanks,


--
Sukaina Ehdeed
PhD Student, Information School, University of Sheffield, UK
Lecturer, Dept of Library and Information Science, University of Tripoli,
Libya
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