Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities

Comprender la sociedad a través del lenguaje: una nueva mirada sobre los grupos sociales y la integración

“…Desde entonces, la sociolingüística de las interacciones en línea (online sociolinguistics) ha aportado considerablemente a la comprensión tanto de nuevas formas de interacción social online como de los efectos identitarios que estas desencadenan, que resaltaré brevemente (para revisiones del campo, ver Leppänen y Peuronen, 2012;Androutsopoulos, 2016;Varis y Van Nuenen, 2017;Leppänen, Westinen y Kytölä, 2017).…”

Chronotopic representations as an effect of individuation: The case of the European migrant crisis

“…To account for these social realities, this article draws inspiration from the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon and his theory of individuation (1989, 2009), through which identity is approached as an emergent and tentative byproduct (or effect) of communicative actions that, at the same time, feed into the technosocial infrastructure facilitating them. We thus move from specific human users utilizing and crafting specific linguistic, semiotic, and discursive resources in rendering specific identities and alignments on social media (Seargeant & Tagg 2014; Leppänen, Westinen, & Kytölä 2017) to communicative and interactional phenomena showing an increasingly intertwined relationship between human and nonhuman, infrastructural and artifactual entities involved in identity work pertaining to the online-offline nexus (Pennycook 2018).…”

Race, ethnicity and ‘African-ness’ in football discourse – perspectives in the age of superdiversity 1

“…By football discourse I mean text and talk about different aspects of the game and football culture (Kytölä 2012(Kytölä , 2013Kytölä & Westinen 2015). Sites of football discourse are, then, discursive spaces and sites of social action where categorizations, identifications and disidentifications are made (Leppänen et al 2014;Leppänen et al 2017). Talk and multimodal face-to-face interaction, while central for 'doing football culture', is, however, excluded from this chapter, which focuses on texts, media discourses, and digital media.…”

“…In the 21 st -century mediascapes, digital media and the rise of 'Web 2.0' have become increasingly meaningful sociocultural and communicative spaces for participatory cultures building around shared activities. Digital media practices are translocal and transcultural, and participants in them engage with new forms of (super)diversity in different ways (Leppänen et al 2014, Androutsopoulos & Juffermans 2014Leppänen & Kytölä 2016;Leppänen et al 2017). Indeed, writing about difference and processes of (dis)identification is a key issue arising in the sociolinguistic study of digital participatory media.…”

“…As outlined in the superdiversity research in the past decade, the social, cultural and demographic conditions of nation states, particularly in Europe, have caused a significant increase in the categories of migrants, their patterns and itineraries of migration, and processes of integration in the host societies (Blommaert & Rampton 2011: 1; see also Creese & Blackledge 2010). Scholars on superdiversity have noted the co-occurrence of new migration and mobility patterns (or lack of 'patterns' therein) with the emergence of new information technologies, and flows of digitally mediated text via various kinds of computers and mobile devices; however, few have so far systematically analysed empirical work linking superdiversity and new forms of digital communication (but see Leppänen et al 2014, Leppänen et al 2017Androutsopoulos & Juffermans 2014).…”