Social Media Discourse, (Dis)identifications and Diversities

Chapter 1: Introduction: Identifications, diversities and social media discourse

Sirpa Leppaenen, Samu Kytoelae, Elina Westinen & Saija Peuronen

PART I: Identifications of others

Chapter 2: "Pissis stories": Performing transgressive and precarious girlhood in social media
Mia Halonen and Sirpa Leppaenen

Chapter 3: "Are they singing the national anthem?": Football followers' responses to the ethnic diversification of Finland men's national football team

Samu Kytoelae

Chapter 4: Psychotherapeutic discourse in problematizing transnational identities in computer-mediated interaction: refusals to be 'diagnosed'

Julia Zhukova Klausen

Chapter 5: There is no 'I' in 'team': The co-construction of expertise on the Nomadic Matt travel blog

Tom van Nuenen and Piia Varis

Chapter 6: Voices of self- and other-identification from a pro-innocent community: Action-oriented discourses in online popular forensics

Maria Bortoluzzi

Chapter 7: 'Friendly' comments: Interactional displays of alignment on Facebook and YouTube.
Alexandra Georgakopoulou

PART II: Identifications of the self

Chapter 8: Negotiating social roles in semi-public online contexts

Caroline Tagg & Philip Seargeant

Chapter 9: "This is a wall of memories": Time and age identity in Facebook discourse

Mariza Georgalou

Chapter 10: Age, gender and identities in Japanese blogs: Analysis of role language as stylization
Yukiko Nishimura

Chapter 11: "I just don't know what went wrong" - Neo-sincerity and doing gender and age Otherwise on a discussion forum for Finnish fans of My Little Pony

Sanna Lehtonen

Chapter 12: Resemiotizing the metapragmatics of Konglish and Pidgin on YouTube

Christina Higgins, Gavin Furukawa, Hakyoon Lee

Chapter 13: "Still alive, nigga": Multisemiotic constructions of self as Other in Finnish rap music videos
Elina Westinen