Analysing Representations of Social Media in European News Me... - 9781032023519

Taylor & Francis

Analysing Representations of Social Media in European News Media DiscourseAuthor(s): Christine Develotte, Anthippi Potolia, Eija Suomela-Salmi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032023519, 978-1032023519\nSynopsis\nThis book explores representations of social media in European media discourses across different socio-historical contexts, demonstrating how such analysis can illuminate the tension between global and local in media discourses in todays globalised world. \n\nThe volume draws on data from a trilingual corpus from different editions of the free daily Metro from Finland, France, and Greece spanning a five-year period, with a focus on Facebook and Twitter. Adopting a French discourse analysis approach, which takes as its point of departure the notion of discourse as the social practice of representing, the book integrates qualitative and quantitative analyses to investigate the social and political role dep.