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Rewriting Web 2.0 Discourses Of The Local For Socio-Spatial Literacy Theory, Erin Daugherty
Rewriting Web 2.0 Discourses Of The Local For Socio-Spatial Literacy Theory, Erin Daugherty
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation seeks to provide a framework for engaging with two spatial concepts that have been foundational to theorizing literacy across time but have often been taken for granted as passive backdrops to the social action of literacy practice: the notions of “the local” and “the global.” By interrogating the histories, both past and ongoing, of these two spatial concepts as they are interwoven into the sociocultural paradigm of literacy theory, research, and pedagogy, this project identifies new ways that literacy researchers and educators can attend to spatial concepts so as to promote and encourage literacy research and learning that …
News V. Study: The Facts: Discourse Communities, Hannah Huber
News V. Study: The Facts: Discourse Communities, Hannah Huber
Jessie O'Kelly Freshman Essay Award
A discourse community can best be described as a group of people that all share a common form of communication through certain words and activities. Most people in life are included in multiple discourse communities and, must learn a new set of slang when communicating amongst different groups.
Mechanisms And Implications Of Identity Hybridization In Online Advertorials, Christopher Lee Borntrager
Mechanisms And Implications Of Identity Hybridization In Online Advertorials, Christopher Lee Borntrager
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This study analyzes the ways corporate-sponsored image advertorials published in online platforms construct identities for their sponsor. By analyzing 6 advertorials from The Guardian Online as well as a user comment thread on the same website using critical linguistic analysis and conversation analysis, respectively, this study suggests that the identities constructed in corporate-sponsored advertorials are a hybridized form, claiming both the goals of a corporation and the social legitimacy of a professional activist. To construct these hybrid identities, the advertorials in this sampling used specific linguistic strategies to demonstrate agency with regard to a specific social issue while seeming to …