Mediatisierung und Medialität in Social Media

Das Diskurssystem „Twitter“

Bibliographic Data

ID23248554
AuthorsMark Dang-Anh (0000-0003-3557-1762), Jessica Einspänner, Caja Thimm (0009-0004-3167-7038)
Year2012
Pages68-92
Publication date2012-11-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueSprache und Kommunikation im technischen Zeitalter (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDe Gruyter Saur (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110282184.68
OpenAlexW2486630746
ISBN9783110282184
LanguageDE
Citations received2

Mediatization and Mediality in Social Media: the Discourse System Twitter The article contributes to the debate about mediatization and the use of language in social media. The theoretical approach evolves from the intersection of linguistics, media and communication studies. While the concept of mediatization describes relations between medial and sociocultural change and the ubiquity of media in everyday life, the concept of mediality sheds light on the inseparability of media and language. From this interdisciplinary perspective, specific practices of media and language use within the microblogging service Twitter were analyzed. Examples from different case studies reveal certain user practices that can be described as formed by ‘moulding forces’ of the medium Twitter without considering technology as determining or symptomatic. Our analysis shows that the use of specific semiotic and functional operators (#, @, RT, http://) establish user practices of creating personal and semantic references and thus constitute Twitter as a multi-referential discourse system.

Political science · Social media · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Linguistic research and analysis

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