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Practices of Convergence and Controversy in Digital Discourses

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The present volume on digital discourse analysis presents contemporary research on social media and other forms of digital communication and discourses. Digital discourse analysis has emerged as a domain of forefront research on contemporary topics concerning language use in various digital platforms and networks.

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    The volume contains a selection of thematically related papers that were presented at the conference ‘Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis’, held at the University of Turku, Finland in May 2019.

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Johansson, M., Tanskanen, SK., Chovanec, J. (2021). Practices of Convergence and Controversy in Digital Discourses. In: Johansson, M., Tanskanen, SK., Chovanec, J. (eds) Analyzing Digital Discourses. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84602-2_1

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