Face Work and Social Media (Hildesheimer Contributions to Media Research; Volume 2) by Edited by Kristina Bedijs, Gudrun Held, and Christiane Maaß - 2014

LIT Verlag, 2014. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. This volume contains 17 essays on face work, identity, and social media like social networks, online forums, and online newspapers, looking at theoretical considerations, the construction of group identity in social media, face threatening and flattering in online communication, and face in expert and laypeople communication in social media. German language, linguistics, psychology, education, and communication scholars discuss the following concepts and terms: face, figura, identity, self, default face, and self-presentation in the context of social media; group identity and shared face on YouTube, language in status updates on Facebook to signal group affiliation, mutual criticism in the CouchSurfing community, and the negotiation of status in a forum community; linguistic strategies used online, including politeness in online message boards, criticism in comments, “flaming” or collective attacks against absent third parties, blog trolls, and messages on Twitter; and the construction of the roles of expert and layperson in the French forum Français notre belle langue, Languefrancaise.net, e-learning contexts, and German and Russian online newspapers. Distributed in the US by ISBS. (2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)