- Description
- 1 online resource
- Summary
- Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand. Adam Hodgkin thinks Twitter is much more than a mere social media tool - it is a terrain ripe for a conceptual and theoretical analysis of our use of digital language. In this work, Hodgkin takes John Searle's theory of speech acts as Status Function Declarations (SFDs) - speech acts that fulfill their meaning by saying the right words in the right context - as a probe for understanding Twitter's institutional structure and the still-developing toolset that it provides for its members.
- Subject
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 17, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9780226438351
- OCLC
- EDZ0001640052
- Author
Hodgkin, Adam, author.
- Title
Following Searle on Twitter : how words create digital institutions / Adam Hodgkin.
- Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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