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 Dr Ruth Page Room 1509, Attenborough Tower School of English University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH UK +44 (0)116 223 1286
Dear Ruth and list, I've previously (2011) published an article on affective public Facebook groups, which sadly is in Danish only. http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/journalistica/article/view/5452 This article included the analysis of a R.I.P group and Im also continuing work in this area now, focusing on pages though, some initial findings presented at IR 14. Im happy to share my slides from this event with anyone interested. For the 2011 article, I did a short review of the academic work on Facebook groups, I could find then (2011). Most were on political groups, but especially Lampinen's findings seem to be more broadly applicable, and Kuchin and Kitchener focus on discourse. Apart from the articles already posted by others: Lampinen, A., Tamminen S. and Oulasvirta, A. (2009). "All My People Right Here, Right Now: management of group co-presence on a social networking site. I Proceedings of GROUP '09. ACM, New York, NY, pp. 281-290. Kuchin, Mattew og Kitchener, Kevin (2009). Getting political on social network sites: Exploring online political discourse on Facebook. I First Monday, Vol. 14, No. 11. Publiceret 2. september 2009. Tilgængelig på: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticl.... Sidst tilgået 11. august 2011. Feezell, J., Conroy, M., Guerrero M. (2009). "Facebook is ... Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation". APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1451456. Marichal, José (2010). Political Facebook Groups: Micro-Activism and the Digital Front Stage. Paper præsenteret ved Internet, Politics, Policy 2010: An Impact Assessment-konferencen, Oxford Internet Institute, 16. - 17. september 2010. Tilgængelig på: http://microsites.oii.ox.ac.uk/ipp2010/system/files/IPP2010_Marichal_Paper.p... Park, Namsu, Kee, Kerk, F., and Valenzuela, Sebastian. (2009). "Being immersed in social networking environment: Facebook Groups, uses and gratifications, and social outcomes." CyberPsychology & Behavior, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 729-733. Best Lisbeth Klastrup -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Page, Ruth (Dr.) Sent: 22. januar 2014 10:49 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 Dr Ruth Page Room 1509, Attenborough Tower School of English University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH UK +44 (0)116 223 1286 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Dear Ruth, You might be interested in this article I wrote on the public Facebook groups of two social movement organisations, the Climate Camp in the UK and Occupy the Hague in the Netherlands. In it I discuss the organisational implications of setting up and running activist Facebook groups for movement organisations and their Facebook following. The article came out last year in Information, Communication and Society. The data was collected/coded manually. All the best, Dan 'Probing the implications of Facebook use for the organizational form of social movement organizations' http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2013.770050?journalCode=... Abstract: This article examines the use of Facebook by social movement organizations (SMOs) and the ramifications from that usage for their organizational form. Organizational forms have been viewed to be in flux as networked communication becomes embedded in mobilization repertoires. In what follows, it is shown that the utilization of Facebook by networked heterarchical organizations is seen to grant them access to a hitherto untapped demographic for the purpose of mobilization. Concurrently, questions are raised pertaining to organizational form, particularly in relation to the role the Facebook audience plays in movement organizations. Communication on Facebook may catalyze deliberation, information sharing and mobilization. Moreover, evidence was found pointing to its use for the self-organization of protest participation. Yet, engagement between SMOs and their Facebook audience bore little on decision-making within the organizations. Although limited in scope, the emerging contribution of such communication may be by way of channelling items into decision-making agendas. -----Original Message----- From: Page, Ruth (Dr.) [mailto: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 Dr Ruth Page Room 1509, Attenborough Tower School of English University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH UK +44 (0)116 223 1286 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
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 Dr Ruth Page Room 1509, Attenborough Tower School of English University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH UK +44 (0)116 223 1286 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
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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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
Dr Ruth Page Room 1509, Attenborough Tower School of English University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH UK +44 (0)116 223 1286 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Steven Clift