2020
DOI: 10.1075/prag.18057.gia
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The shared story of #JeSuisAylan on Twitter

Abstract: Despite an increased interest in the discourse representations of refugees in the media, little attention has been paid so far to the circulation and uptake of such portrayals in social media. This article addresses this gap by examining networked users' reactions to the iconic image of Alan Kurdi, which quickly turned into a shared story. By analyzing story frames, i.e. orientations to the Storyrealm, the Taleworld, or the Outside world (De Fina 2016) in multimodal posts (dated September 3rd 2015), which feat… Show more

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“…“The potential for users to participate in interaction and to contribute content is perhaps the main defining characteristic of social media” (Landert, 2017, p. 31). In the circulation of visual small stories (iconic image of Alan Kurdi) on Twitter, users are found to participate in sharing and spreading the story by commenting, resharing, and replying (Giaxoglou & Spilioti, 2020).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…“The potential for users to participate in interaction and to contribute content is perhaps the main defining characteristic of social media” (Landert, 2017, p. 31). In the circulation of visual small stories (iconic image of Alan Kurdi) on Twitter, users are found to participate in sharing and spreading the story by commenting, resharing, and replying (Giaxoglou & Spilioti, 2020).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…"The potential for users to participate in interaction and to contribute content is perhaps the main defining characteristic of social media" (Landert, 2017, p. 31). In the circulation of visual small stories (iconic image of Alan Kurdi) on Twitter, users are found to participate in sharing and spreading the story by commenting, resharing, and replying (Giaxoglou & Spilioti, 2020). The technology of social media provides affordances for users, such as Twitter's 140-character limit (Bucher & Helmond, 2018), hashtag #, addressing @, emoji, and emoticons, among others.…”
Section: Important Research Themesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Currently, where researchers are restricted to fieldwork outside their houses, social media can be a vehicle in analyzing small stories using visual small stories. Through hashtags and shared stories of netizens, it is possible to unpack these stories and be analyzed in different forms (Giaxoglou & Spilioti, 2020). Since COVID-19 is the talk of the town in the present times, it is interesting to look for a small story that shows emergence in fighting the virus.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%