Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction ix Deborah Tannen and Anna Marie Trester, Georgetown University Chapter 1. Discourse in Web 2.0: Familiar, Reconfigured, and Emergent 1 Susan C. Herring, Indiana University Bloomington Chapter 2. Polities and Politics of Ongoing Assessments: Evidence from Video-Gaming and Blogging 27 Hervé Varenne, Gillian “Gus” Andrews, Aaron Chia-Yuan Hung, and Sarah Wessler, Teachers College, Columbia University Chapter 3. Participatory Culture and Metalinguistic Discourse: Performing and Negotiating German Dialects on YouTube 47 Jannis Androutsopoulos, University of Hamburg Chapter 4. “My English Is So Poor . . . So I Take Photos”: Metalinguistic Discourses about English on Flickr 73 Carmen Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong Chapter 5. “Their Lives Are So Much Better Than Ours!” The Ritual (Re)construction of Social Identity in Holiday Cards 85 Jenna Mahay, Concordia University Chicago Chapter 6. The Medium Is the Metamessage: Conversational Style in New Media Interaction 99 Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University Chapter 7. Bringing Mobiles into the Conversation: Applying a Conversation Analytic Approach to the Study of Mobiles in Co-present Interaction 119 Stephen M. DiDomenico, Rutgers University, and Jeffrey Boase, Ryerson University Chapter 8. Facework on Facebook: Conversations on Social Media 133 Laura West and Anna Marie Trester, Georgetown University Chapter 9. Mock Performatives in Online Discussion Boards: Toward a DiscoursePragmatic Model of Computer-Mediated Communication 155 Tuija Virtanen, Åbo Akademi University Chapter 10. Re- and Pre-authoring Experiences in Email Supervision: Creating and Revising Professional Meanings in an Asynchronous Medium 167 Cynthia Gordon and Melissa Luke, Syracuse University Chapter 11. Blogs: A Medium for Intellectual Engagement with Course Readings and Participants 183 Marianna Ryshina-Pankova and Jens Kugele, Georgetown University Chapter 12. Reading in Print or Onscreen: Better, Worse, or About the Same? 201 Naomi S. Baron, American University Chapter 13. Fakebook: Synthetic Media, Pseudo-sociality, and the Rhetorics of Web 2.0 225 Crispin Thurlow, University of Washington Index 251 vi Contents ...