(Apologies for cross-posting) · For those AOIRs who have inquired about/are interested in the ways in which digital communication and social media affect political and journalistic practice, and vice versa, please see this book just released last week. My colleague Helen Sissons and I have a chapter included that looks at the comments section of news websites as interactive spaces. BURGER Marcel, Joanna THORNBORROW & Richard FITZGERALD (eds.) (2017), Discours des réseaux sociaux. Enjeux publics, politiques et médiatiques. Discourses of Social Media. Public, Political and Media Issues. Bruxelles: DeBoeck. Available here: http://www.deboecksuperieur.com/ouvrage/9782807306028-discours-des-reseaux-s.... There are chapters in both English and French. Below are excerpts about the book from the editors: "Using a range of theories and approaches from sociolinguistics, interaction analysis, conversation and discourse analysis, and multimodal semiotic analysis, all the contributors to the book analyze the relationship between interactive environments and social interactions. In particular, they explore how social media users represent and construct space and place as object and context, and they address questions that include: What kinds of places and spaces are being constructed through digital communication and for what purposes? How are these relations between virtual, digital and real, concrete environments being managed in locally situated interactions? With what kind of linguistic markers and resources, and according to what stakes?... The chapters in this book combine both practical considerations, as for instance, in their observations of platform users' discursive actions, as well as addressing ethical and anthropological issues, as for instance in their analysis of the consequences of those actions in both 'virtual' and 'real' environments. " · Also, for a closer look at how news organisations cope with digital technology issues, please see this article we have also published: Smith, P. and Sissons. H. (2016). Social media and a case of mistaken identity: A newspaper's response to journalistic error. Journalism:Theory, Practice and Criticism. 15 December 2016 online issue http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464884916683551 Kind regards Philippa Smith [AUT]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/> Philippa Smith Senior Lecturer ICDC Auckland University of Technology Auckland NEW ZEALAND [QS rankings]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/qs> [Facebook]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/facebook>[Twitter]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/twitter>[YouTube]<https://www.aut.ac.nz/youtube> P 09 921 9999 ext 8276 E philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz<mailto:philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> W aut.ac.nz<https://www.aut.ac.nz/> [https://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/image/0011/571817/teal-strip.gif]