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Social media as semiotic technology and social practice: the case of ResearchGate's design and its potential to transform social practice

Djonov, Emilia ; Van Leeuwen, Theo

Social semiotics, 2018-10, Vol.28 (5), p.641-664 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Abingdon: Routledge

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  • Título:
    Social media as semiotic technology and social practice: the case of ResearchGate's design and its potential to transform social practice
  • Autor: Djonov, Emilia ; Van Leeuwen, Theo
  • Assuntos: academic social network sites ; critical multimodal approach ; Cultural studies ; Discourse analysis ; Mass media ; Multimodality ; Peer review ; ResearchGate ; semiotic software technologies ; Semiotics ; Social function ; Social meaning ; Social media ; Social networks ; social practice ; Sociology of culture ; Software ; Technology
  • É parte de: Social semiotics, 2018-10, Vol.28 (5), p.641-664
  • Descrição: This article addresses the need for critical approaches to social media by bridging the focus on language and other semiotic resources that characterises discourse studies with the broader perspective on social media as social, cultural, economic and technological constructs that dominates media and cultural studies. Specifically, we propose a model for analysing how social media as semiotic technologies, that is, technologies designed to enable and constrain meaning-making, may transform social practices. By incorporating Van Leeuwen's [2008. Discourse and Practice: New Tools for Critical Analysis. London: Oxford University Press] framework for the critical analysis of discourse and social practice, the model extends the social semiotic approach developed in recent critical multimodal studies of software such as PowerPoint to social media, which function primarily to provide platforms for and commodify social practices, rather than to offer rich arrays of semiotic resources for creating multimodal texts and artefacts. Using the academic social network site ResearchGate and the practice of research peer review, we illustrate the model's capacity to account for the ways the design of social media platforms - through the semiotic resources they make available and the ways these are presented - enables and constrains their users' ability to perform key social practices and has the potential to transform these practices.
  • Editor: Abingdon: Routledge
  • Idioma: Inglês
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