The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age

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Alejandro Parini is Dean of the Faculty of Languages and International Studies and Full Professor of English linguistics at the University of Belgrano, Argentina. His areas or interest and research include the study of digital discourse and language ideologies and new media.

Francisco Yus is Full Professor at the University of Alicante (Spain). He has published extensively on internet communication, about which he has proposed the theory of cyberpragmatics. He has also studied the pragmatics of humorous communication.

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This collection calls greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the digital age and the increasing hybridisation of physical and virtual worlds.

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Contents

PART I: MACRO APPROACHES

1. The discursive construction of place through the online-offline interface. From physical locations to wikispaces (Alejandro Parini and Francisco Yus).

2. The best thing on twitch today was a bike messenger: Experiencing metropolis, mobility and place through live-streaming (Aparajita Bhandari and Lee Humphreys).

3. Digital first-order place, velocity and chronotope in globalized communication (Isolda E. Carranza).

4. Space, place and TikTok: propaganda, documentation and accountability (David Nichols).

PART II: MICRO APPROACHES

5. The lived experience of place in a Twitter affinity space around the death of sports celebrity Maradona (Patricia Bou-Franch).

6. The off/online nexus and public spaces: Morality, civility, and aggression in the attribution and ratification of the Karen social identity (Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Lucía Fernández-Amaya).

7. The physical-digital interface: What does "ici" ("here") mean in a written online discussion? (Michel Marcoccia).

8. Spatial deixis within political discourse on Twitter (Ana Pano Alamán).

9. The role of location information sharing in e-service encounters on Mercado Libre (María Elena Placencia and Hebe Powell).

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