708 Language and Discourse in Online Social Media

Saturday, August 4, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
OB 32 (Faculty of Economics)

RC25 Language and Society (host committee)
RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture

Language: English
Session Organizers:
Corinne KIRCHNER, Columbia University, USA and Diana PAPADEMAS, Old Westbury University, USA
Chair:
Sheila AMADO, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hate speech and the transformation of political organization in internet (Oral Presentation)
Ilkka ARMINEN, University of Helsinki, Finland

Laughs in the stream: Discourse and networks in Twitter parody accounts (Oral Presentation)
Amanda JOHNSON, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

How do Cameroon women of diaspora build their professional identity on the web ? A study case (Oral Presentation)
Carmen DIOP, Université Paris 13 Villetaneuse - EXPERICE (Paris 8/Paris 13), France

Corporate discourses in education (Oral Presentation)
Mónica PINI, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina