You might be interested in what we are doing with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup I trolled deeply to find scores of open government, open data, smart city, civic tech Facebook Groups around the world, many are listed here: http://pages.e-democracy.org/List_of_groups And far more are here (mixed with other groups): https://www.facebook.com/stevenlclift/groups I then worked to promote this new global group as a space to connect these many national/language based groups. Because Facebook controls message distribution via News feed exposure, the number of members are deceiving and at about 250 members, the default notification switches from all new posts to new posts from just your friends, these spaces can quickly become dormant. However, some Facebook Groups really have a lot of life if they have continued posting of new topics by an array of members. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:50 AM, Andreas Birkbak <a.birkbak@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Ruth,
Here's a study of two Facebook Groups founded in reaction to a snowstorm emergency in Denmark that I've done: http://vbn.aau.dk/da/publications/crystallizations-in-the-blizzard(00900bdf-...
It combines quantitative and qualitative approaches, including analysis of discourse.
Best, Andreas
2014-01-23 21:48 GMT+01:00 Pask-Hughes, Alexander < a.pask-hughes@lancaster.ac.uk>:
Hi Ruth,
I imagine you'll have likely come across these and not all look at Facebook, but I think they're probably relevant discourse-analytic examples, with a focus beyond self and identity:
Burke & Goodman (2012) "Bring back Hitler's gas chambers": Asylum seeking, Nazis and Facebook - A discursive analysis. D&S 23(1).
Goodman & Rowe (2014) "Maybe it is prejudice... but it is NOT racism": Negotiating racism in discussion forums about Gypsies. D&S 25(1).
Shaikjee & Milani (2013) "It's time for Afrikaans to go"... or not? Language ideologies and (ir)rationality in the blogosphere. Language Matters 44(2).
Aside from these, there's the research from Todd Graham and Scott Wright (including the EU cyberspace paper with Ruth Wodak), although that's probably veering too far away from both Facebook and discourse analysis.
I was sure someone archived the Thatcher tweets as well...
Alexander David Pask-Hughes
PhD student Seminar Tutor for LING204: Discourse Analysis
Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University
E-mail: a.pask-hughes@lancaster.ac.uk Twitter: @adpaskhughes
________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Page, Ruth (Dr.) [rep22@leicester.ac.uk] Sent: 22 January 2014 09:49 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Research of Facebook public groups Dear AoIR list members,
I'm doing some work from a discourse analysis perspective on the way interactions on Facebook public groups take place. I'm specifically looking at the RIP pages set up in response to the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
I'm familiar with a lot of the research literature on Facebook, but most of what I know is based on studies that examined personal Facebook accounts/wall interactions.
Can anyone please recommend studies of Facebook groups? I'm especially interested in anything that has a linguistic/discourse analysis focus, but it would also be good to learn from studies from a more general social science perspective too.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Ruth
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