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Zummo
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Political Identities Constructed on a Social Network: The Labour Party on Facebook Boards
2019
This paper is concerned with how an (institutional) political identity is constructed on a Social Network (SN) wall, which represents the political identity of the party as designed in digital interactive contexts, and where political image constructions are eventually accepted or negotiated by the digital audience. Like other political parties, the Labour Party resorts to online platforms for official accounts and political message dissemination (Gerbaudo 2014; Boyd 2014) and constructs its (online) identity. Since interaction is seen (Baumann 2000; De Fina 2011) as the most important locus for the production of identities, this study looks at Facebook boards as interactional sites where t…
Recensione a E. Di Giovanni, F. Raffi (eds.), “Languaging Diversity” vol. 3., Language(s) and Power, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Ty…
2018
This piece is a review of Di Giovanni and Raffii's book, which is a collection exploring the complex relationship between language and power from various critical perspectives and by means of different methodologies. The authors draw on the existing scholarship and research, including the most recent, to show how language and power are interconnected, demonstrating how language mirrors asymmetri- cal political, social and cultural arrangements.