dc.contributor.author | Martinviita, Annamari | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-07T10:05:27Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-02-07T10:05:27Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Martinviita, A. (2018). The many faces of online community : Images and imaginings of togetherness on Imgur. <em>Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies</em>, 12 (2), 55-74. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17011/apples/urn.201812014967">doi:10.17011/apples/urn.201812014967</a> | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/62727 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article discusses the meaning and function of “community” as a discourse on
the image-sharing website Imgur. The analysis shows that the community term has
many meanings and serves as a shorthand for a wide variety of social practices, and
these meanings are shaped by the experiences of social action leading to the use of
the term. Based on ethnographic data, nexus analysis provides an understanding of
how the interactions related to community on the site come to take place the way they
do. In conceiving of these interactions as mediated discourse, the article provides a
fresh approach to the long-established academic discussion on the definition of
community, suggesting a new conception of the community term as a boundary
object, which takes on various meanings and functions as it is employed in social
action. On Imgur, the community term is associated with an imagined connection to
similar others, a shared culture, and the commitment to participation required by
the intertextuality of the site content and the challenge of learning to read and create
the content that is popular on the site. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Apples : Journal of Applied Language Studies | |
dc.rights | CC BY 4.0 | |
dc.subject.other | online community | |
dc.subject.other | virtual community | |
dc.subject.other | online social interaction | |
dc.subject.other | online ethnography | |
dc.subject.other | nexus analysis | |
dc.subject.other | mediated discourse analysis | |
dc.title | The many faces of online community : Images and imaginings of togetherness on Imgur | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201812014967 | |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | |
dc.date.updated | 2019-02-07T10:05:28Z | |
dc.description.reviewstatus | peerReviewed | |
dc.format.pagerange | 55-74 | |
dc.relation.issn | 1457-9863 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 2 | |
dc.relation.volume | 12 | |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.copyright | © Author, 2018 | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | |
dc.format.content | fulltext | |
dc.rights.url | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.relation.doi | 10.17011/apples/urn.201812014967 | |