Sequence organisation of Facebook home threads /
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2014
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Farina, Matteo,
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This study contributes to our knowledge of Facebook (FB), a topic which is receiving increasing attention from scholars of different disciplines including ethnomethodology,sociology and education. Despite the interest in FB, very few studies have investigated FB from a linguistic perspective, and none has used Conversation Analysis (CA) to analyse the sequence organisation of FB Home interactions. This study fills this gap in linguistic research and provides a description of the sequence organisation of FB Home interactions.
In this study, the principles of CA are applied to analyse naturally occurring interactions that take place among speakers of Italian on the FB Home. These interactions consist of a series of posts which are organised into threads. It is demonstrated that the posts within a thread, like the turns of a spoken conversation, are not random, but are organised in sequences. While there are similarities between the organisation of these FB Home interactions and spoken interactions, it is possible to see that FB threads also reflect the affordances and constraints of the medium in which the interactions occur.
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University of South Australia. School of Communication, International Studies and Languages.
School of Communication, International Studies and Languages.
School of Communication, International Studies and Languages.
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Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2014.
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Copyright 2014 Farina Matteo. This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Australia 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)
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1 ethesis (ix, 286 leaves) :
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286)
illustrations.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286)
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