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Housley, William, Webb, Helena, Edwards, Adam, Procter, Rob and Jirotka, Marina (2017) Membership categorisation and antagonistic Twitter formulations. Discourse & Communication, 11 (6). pp. 567-590. doi:10.1177/1750481317726932
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1177/1750481317726932
Abstract
During the course of this article, we examine the use of membership categorisation practices by a high-profile celebrity public social media account that has been understood to generate interest, attention and controversy across the UK (and wider European) media ecology. We utilise a data set of harvested tweets gathered from a high-profile public ‘celebrity antagonist’ in order to systematically identify types of antagonistic formulation that have generated different levels of interest within the social media community and beyond. Drawing from classic ethnomethodological studies of banner headlines and other means of generating public interest and ‘making sense’, we respecify high-profile antagonistic tweets as category formulations that exhibit particular and regular membership category features that are reflexively bound to potential antagonistic readings, interest and controversy. In conclusion, we consider how such formulations may be understood to represent resources that constitute ignition points within antagonistic flows of communication and information that can be metaphorically understood as ‘digital wildfires’.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Computer Science | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Social media, Twitter (Firm), Discourse analysis | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Discourse & Communication | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1750-4813 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 December 2017 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 11 | |||||||||
| Number: | 6 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 567-590 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/1750481317726932 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | |||||||||
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