Taking Offence on Social Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Offence on Social Media write by Caroline Tagg. This book was released on 2017-08-04. Taking Offence on Social Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores communication on Facebook, developing the new theoretical concept of context design as a way of understanding the dynamics of online interaction. Against a backdrop of fake news and other controversies surrounding online political debate, the authors focus on inadvertent acts of offence on Facebook; that is, when users of the site unwittingly offend or are offended by the airing of political or religious views, or of opinions deemed racist or sexist. Drawing on a survey of Facebook users, they explain why instances of offence occur and what users report doing in response. They argue that Facebook users contribute to the construction of a particular social space, one that is characterised by online conviviality and a belief that Facebook is not the place for serious debate. These views in turn shape the kind of political debate that can take place on the site. This thought-provoking book will appeal to scholars and students of applied linguistics, and anyone interested in the role of social media in contemporary political and social life.
Media and the Politics of Offence
Media and the Politics of Offence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media and the Politics of Offence write by Anne Graefer. This book was released on 2019-07-03. Media and the Politics of Offence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements across the globe. In this political landscape, the so-called ‘right to offend’ is often seen as a legitimate weapon against a ‘political correctness gone mad’ that stifles ‘free speech’. Against the backdrop of these current developments, this book aims to generate a productive dialogue among scholars working in a variety of intellectual disciplines, geographical locations and methodological traditions. The contributors share a concern about the complex and ambiguous nature of offence as well as about the different ways in which this so-called ‘negative affect’ comes to matter in our everyday and socio-political lives. Through a series of instructive case studies of recent media provocations, the authors illustrate how being offended is more than an individual feeling and is, instead, closely tied to political structures and power relations.
On Taking Offence
On Taking Offence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Taking Offence write by Emily McTernan. This book was released on 2023. On Taking Offence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The subject of this book is an emotion that philosophers have largely overlooked and yet one that is the target of intense public debate: taking offence. This is an everyday emotion, often taken at small and ordinary slights of daily life. However, especially in an era of public criticism of those deemed too easily offended, it is easy to overlook offence's significance and social value. This book aims to rehabilitate taking offence. Rather than addressing the question familiar from jurisprudence of whether the state ought to regulate offensive behaviour, I ask the philosophically neglected questions of whether we ought to take offence, when, and within what limits. My focus is the offended, and not those who cause offence. Against the widespread popular perception of offence as a civic vice, this book defends taking offence as often morally appropriate and socially important. Within societies marred by hierarchies of unequal social standing, and when taken by those who face systematic attributions of lower social standing, an inclination to take offence at the right things and to the right degree is a civic virtue"--
Social Media in Rural China
Social Media in Rural China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Media in Rural China write by Tom McDonald. This book was released on 2016-09-13. Social Media in Rural China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. China’s distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation’s vast number of internet users, but has China’s countryside been ‘left behind’ in this communication revolution? Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community researching how the residents use social media in their daily lives. His ethnographic findings suggest that, far from being left behind, many rural Chinese people have already integrated social media into their everyday experience.Throughout his ground-breaking study, McDonald argues that social media allows rural people to extend and transform their social relationships by deepening already existing connections with friends known through their school, work or village, while also experimenting with completely new forms of relationships through online interactions with strangers, particularly when looking for love and romance. By juxtaposing these seemingly opposed relations, rural social media users are able to use these technologies to understand, capitalise on and challenge the notions of morality that underlie rural life.
Blackstone's Guide to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997
Blackstone's Guide to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blackstone's Guide to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 write by Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden. This book was released on 1997. Blackstone's Guide to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covers many types of public order and personal dispute situations such as industrial strikes, neighbourhood disputes, investigative reporters and bullying at work. Includes a copy of the Act.
