Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities

Sirpa Leppänen is Professor in the Department of Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.Samu Kytölä is a Post-doctoral Researchers in the Department of Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.Elina Westinen is a Post-doctoral Researchers in the Department of Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Identifications, diversities and social media discourseSirpa Leppänen, Samu Kytölä, Elina Westinen & Saija PeuronenPART I: Identifications of othersChapter 2: "Pissis stories": Performing transgressive and precarious girlhood in social mediaMia Halonen and Sirpa LeppänenChapter 3: "Are they singing the national anthem?": Football followers’ responses to the ethnic diversification of Finland men’s national football teamSamu KytöläChapter 4: Psychotherapeutic discourse in problematizing transnational identities in computer-mediated interaction: refusals to be ‘diagnosed’Julia Zhukova KlausenChapter 5: There is no ‘I’ in ‘team’: The co-construction of expertise on the Nomadic Matt travel blogTom van Nuenen and Piia VarisChapter 6: Voices of self- and other-identification from a pro-innocent community: Action-oriented discourses in online popular forensics Maria BortoluzziChapter 7: ‘Friendly’ comments: Interactional displays of alignment on Facebook and YouTube.Alexandra GeorgakopoulouPART II: Identifications of the self Chapter 8: Negotiating social roles in semi-public online contextsCaroline Tagg & Philip SeargeantChapter 9: "This is a wall of memories": Time and age identity in Facebook discourseMariza GeorgalouChapter 10: Age, gender and identities in Japanese blogs: Analysis of role language as stylizationYukiko NishimuraChapter 11: "I just don’t know what went wrong" – Neo-sincerity and doing gender and age Otherwise on a discussion forum for Finnish fans of My Little PonySanna LehtonenChapter 12: Resemiotizing the metapragmatics of Konglish and Pidgin on YouTubeChristina Higgins, Gavin Furukawa, Hakyoon LeeChapter 13: "Still alive, nigga": Multisemiotic constructions of self as Other in Finnish rap music videosElina Westinen