The Structure of Facebook Comment Threads: The Structure and Organization of Comment Threads - Hardcover

Matteo Farina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350038288 ISBN 13: 9781350038288

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

Conversation Analysis and Facebook investigates the structure and organization of comments on a major social media platform, Facebook, using applied conversation analysis methods. Providing previously undocumented insights into the structure of comment threads, this book demonstrates that they have a meaningful organization, rather than casually following one another. Although normally used to explore the structure of spoken conversations, in recent years conversation analysis approaches have been successfully applied to examine online interactions on Twitter, discussion forums and email exchanges. By turning this approach towards Facebook comments, Matteo Farina provides clear and important insights into the organization of this type of social interaction. Supported by a large sample of data, with findings based on a corpus of 213 comment threads, with over 1,200 comments exchanged by 266 contributors, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the way people communicate on Facebook.

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About the Author

Matteo Farina is Lecturer in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350038288
• ISBN 13: 9781350038288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224