Sunday 25 August 2013

ISSUE 3 ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSE? A NEW LANGUAGE COMMUNITY?

The comment from poet Shelley Tracey got me thinking:

can creative communities form through the medium of social media?
Accordingly, I interviewed Shelley via Facebook Chat.
Here is a transcript.




















What do you think?
Can social media  create a new language, a new discourse, a new language community?






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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous28 August 2013 at 04:44

    Cool, that was a really interesting interview - and conducted over social media, too!

    In answer to your question, I believe that not only can social media create a new language, a new discourse and a new language community, but I believe that social media have already spawned hundreds of communities with their own, if not languages, then dialects (e.g. netspeak, l33tspeak, lolspeak)and discourses.

    Even the proliferation of memes has presented as a new discourse and new 'language', with certain protocols and rules of use which can only be learned and internalised through constant exposure and use.

    Really interesting issues you've brought up! Hope to read more soon!

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  2. Anonymous2 September 2013 at 04:47

    Hi, I'm 14, I came across this blog and I had to comment because I am a great believer that social media has its own communal language. Anyone that has ever facebook chatted, snapchatted, google talked or twitted would be familiar with "lol" (laugh out loud), "idk" (i dont know) and more. Although these are only abbreviations, these have become words in their own right, which are socially not accepted to be used anywhere but on the internet. Words like these have created a communal language.
    Cya,
    Annie :)

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  3. Anonymous3 September 2013 at 04:01

    Avril ...this is a really cool demo of the creative ways you can use social media to communicate....love the way you are reinventing the blog space too by using with excerpts form other media platforms as models of the topic you are exploring ...they really help get the blog conversation started...

    For me a whole new world opened up when I discovered texting.... I love it...think it is the best thing eva.. it is quick and easy and allows me, even on the busiest day, to make contact with people that I just couldn't do with email or a phone call or even a voice message.....

    And as Annie says the abbreviations are a whole new language...one I'm still learning ...for example i didn't know 'idk' was I don't know ...will be using it lots from now on I'm sure.

    Cya (love this one too)
    Rox

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  4. Donny4 September 2013 at 01:05

    Hey, to answer the question above. Social media definitely has, and does, create language, discourse and community.

    The internet is incredibly powerful for bringing together individuals with niche interests, not limited by geographical distance. Thanks to social media, music fans of specific genres can meet online, create and discuss music, and generate a community that is based upon shared ideas and the jargon and lanugage this generates. The debate and feedback these communuities offer pushes the creativity and ideas in the music, benefitting the group.

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  5. Avril Janks6 September 2013 at 18:26

    Great input, Donny.
    Music is a very power way for people to connect. Here's a beautiful rending of We Shall Overcome posted on Youtube. See the comments - they speak for myusic's power to bond, resonate and cross generations and periods of history.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aor6-DkzBJ0

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  6. Anonymous11 September 2013 at 18:39

    Hi Avril

    There are defiantly new languages created through social media like Annie explains. I often find myself using it everyday instead of the proper language we were taught and it necause I grew up using the Internet and chat programs. It makes communicating easier and quicker. but what will happen over time?

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