This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions
and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated …

TikTok—the world's most downloaded app since 2020, has become a place for more than
silly dancing and lip-syncing. TikTok users are increasingly turning to TikTok for news …

The Discourse of YouTube explores the cutting edge of contemporary multimodal discourse
through an in-depth analysis of structures, processes and content in YouTube discourse …

With over a billion users, YouTube constitutes almost a third of the online population, and is
one of the most used video-sharing sites in the world, becoming a major part of popular …

The aim of this chapter is to present the main rationale, methods and analytical tools for
extending small stories research to social media. Small stories research is a paradigm for …

The need to elicit public opinion about predefined topics is widespread in the social
sciences, government and business. Traditional survey-based methods are being partly …

This paper discusses metalanguage, metadiscourse, metacommunication and
metapragmatics testifying to users' conscious awareness enacted in human-AI interactions …

Abstract This Special Issue on “Polymedia in interaction” theorizes and empirically
investigates practices and ideologies of digitally mediated interaction under conditions of …

Social media live streaming, in the form of live video and user stories, is widely used by
influencers, organisations and individuals to connect with their audiences. Its popularity is …

Misinformation and hate speech are prevalent issues in social media research, as well as
the rise of far-right extremists, white supremacists, and conspiracy theorists. In response to …