This study starts from the consideration that new media are platforms where communication and language are re-negotiated to adapt new frames (e.g. new politeness, multimodal exchanges) and, in particular, that fora are participatory frameworks, that represent a mined engagement in writing practices (Stommel and Koole, 2010). Discussions are organised as multiparty conversations on several topics, written by participants (i.e website users accessing a parenting forum) at different levels of expertise about health issues (mostly earned through their experience of parenthood; Kata, 2010). the challenge in this paper is : 1) to study asynchronous forum as a talk-in -interaction venue, where sequences are constricted in conversation-like succession adapted to the medium; and 2) to study the exchange in light of the notion of confirmation niche, that is a virtual space in which very similar information are shared and accepted, reinforcing one's beliefs.

Zummo M.L. (2018). The linguistic construction of confirmation niches in online comment sequences. ALTRE MODERNITÀ, 2018(19), 107-123.

The linguistic construction of confirmation niches in online comment sequences

Zummo M. L.
2018-01-01

Abstract

This study starts from the consideration that new media are platforms where communication and language are re-negotiated to adapt new frames (e.g. new politeness, multimodal exchanges) and, in particular, that fora are participatory frameworks, that represent a mined engagement in writing practices (Stommel and Koole, 2010). Discussions are organised as multiparty conversations on several topics, written by participants (i.e website users accessing a parenting forum) at different levels of expertise about health issues (mostly earned through their experience of parenthood; Kata, 2010). the challenge in this paper is : 1) to study asynchronous forum as a talk-in -interaction venue, where sequences are constricted in conversation-like succession adapted to the medium; and 2) to study the exchange in light of the notion of confirmation niche, that is a virtual space in which very similar information are shared and accepted, reinforcing one's beliefs.
2018
Zummo M.L. (2018). The linguistic construction of confirmation niches in online comment sequences. ALTRE MODERNITÀ, 2018(19), 107-123.
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