Compiled by Lynnette Arnold from recommendations on LingAnth listserv Oct 2021
-Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method. Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, Celia Pearce, T. L. Taylor
-Gabriella Modan’s “Writing the Relationship: Ethnographer‐Informant Interactions in the New Media Era”.
-Roth-Gordon, Jennifer, Jessica Harris, and Stephanie Zamora 2020. Producing White Comfort through “Corporate Cool”: Linguistic Appropriation, Social Media, and @BrandsSayingBae. International Journal for the Sociology of Language 265: 419–440.
-Nell Haynes’s ethnography Social Media in Northern Chile: Posting the Extraordinarily Ordinary.
-Scott Ross. 2019. Being Real on Fake Instagram: Likes, Images, and Media Ideologies of Value. Linguistic Anthropology 29(3):359-374.
-Kosse, Maureen. 2021. Pull a [proper noun]. Colorado Research in Linguistics. https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/cril/article/view/1133/1169
-Delfino, Jennifer B. 2021. “White Allies and the Semiotics of Wokeness: Raciolinguistic Chronotopes of White Virtue on Facebook.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 31 (2): 238–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12310.
– Black, Steven P. 2021. “Portable Values, Inequities, and Techno-Optimism in Global Health Storytelling.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 31 (1): 25–42. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12297.
Dovchin, Sender, Alastair Pennycook, and Shaila Sultana. 2017. Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity: Young Adults On- and Offline.
Rayoung Song. 2020. ‘invisible and ubiquitous: Translinguistic practices in metapragmatic discussions in an online English learning community. In Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness, eds. Jerry Won Lee and Sender Dovchin.
Tebaldi, Catherine. 2020. ‘Bad hombres’, ‘aloha snackbar’, and ‘le cuck’: Mock translanguaging and the production of whiteness. In Translinguistics: Negotiating Innovation and Ordinariness, eds. Jerry Won Lee and Sender Dovchin.
– Haynes, Nell. Extreme Speech| Writing on the Walls: Discourses on Bolivian Immigrants in Chilean Meme Humor. International Journal of Communication, [S.l.], v. 13, p. 21, jul. 2019. ISSN 1932-8036. Available at: <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/9109>.
-“Pinning Down Enregisterment: Using Pinterest to Teach Students about Dialect Awareness.” https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-speech/article-abstract/89/2/208/6023/Pinning-Down-Enregisterment-Using-Pinterest-to
Nell Haynes shared the following list of readings from her Anthropology of Social Media course
Framing Digital Anthropology
Anna Cristina Pertierra. 2018. in Media Anthropology for the Digital Age. London: Polity Press. Introduction.
Daniel Miller. 2018. Digital Anthropology. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Guy Debord. 1967. The Commodity as Spectacle. from The Society of the Spectacle. Detroit: Black& Red Books.*
Social Media Ethnography
Juliano Spyer. 2017. Social Media in Emergent Brazil. Chapters 1&2. London: UCL Press.
Ashlee Humphreys. 2016. Digital Inequality, Age, and Social Class. Social Media: Enduring Principles. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pierre Bourdieu. 1984. Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste. Translated by Richard Nice. New York: Routledge.* (pay most attention starting at bottom of p 411)
Constructing the Self
Juliano Spyer. 2017. Social Media in Emergent Brazil. Chapter 3. London: UCL Press.
Erving Goffman. 1956. Self Presentation. from The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday.*
Scott Ross. 2019. Being Real on Fake Instagram: Likes, Images, and Media Ideologies of Value. Linguistic Anthropology 29(3):359-374.
Niels Van Doorn. 2010. The ties that bind: the networked performance of gender, sexuality and friendship on MySpace. New Media and Society 12(4): 583–602.
Politics
Juliano Spyer. 2017. Social Media in Emergent Brazil. Chapters 5 & 6. London: UCL Press.
Fan Yang. 2014. Rethinking China’s Internet censorship: The practice of recoding and the politics of visibility. New Media and Society 18(7): 1364 –1381.
Louis Althusser. 1971. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. from Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. New York: Monthly Review Press.*
Social Media is a conservative place
Rob Stones. 2015. Structure and Agency. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Wiley.*
Nell Haynes. 2019. Writing on the Walls: Discourses on Bolivian Immigrants in Chilean Meme Humor. International Journal of Communication 13: 3122–3142.
Theresa Senft and Safiya Umoja Noble. 2013. Race and Social Media. The Routledge Handbook of Social Media. New York: Routledge.
Chauncey DeVega. 2018. How Algorithms Reproduce Social and Racial Inequality. Salon (September 15) https://www.salon.com/2018/09/15/how-algorithms-reproduce-social-and-racial-inequality/
Naomi Day. 2020. Reaction GIFs of Black People Are More Problematic Than You Think. One Zero. https://onezero.medium.com/stop-sending-reaction-gifs-of-black-people-if-youre-not-black-b1b200244924
Social media is a revolutionary place
Paulo Gerbaudo. 2012. Tweets and Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism, Chapter 2. New York: Pluto Press.
Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa. 2015. #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States American Ethnologist 42(1):4-17.
Mariam Durrani. 2018. #MeToo, Believing Survivors, and Cooperative Digital Communication. Anthropology News.
Donna Davis and Tom Boellstorff. 2016. Compulsive Creativity: Virtual Worlds, Disability, and Digital Capital. International Journal of Communication 10: 2096–2118.
Ethics, Ethnography
Sarah J. Tracy. 2013. Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact. New York: Blackwell.
D. Soyini Madison. 2012. Critical Ethnography: Methods, Ethics and Performance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Daniel Miller et al. 2016. How the World Changed Social Media Chapters 3 & 4. London: UCL Press.
Text Analysis
Ruth Page, et al. 2014. Analysing Discourse: Qualitative Approaches from Researching Language and Social Media: A Student Guide. pp 80-103. New York: Routledge.
Innocent Chiluwa. 2012. Social media networks and the discourse of resistance: A sociolinguistic CDA of Biafra online discourses. Discourse & Society 23(3): 217-244.
Image Analysis
Jon M. Wargo. 2017. “Every selfie tells a story …”: LGBTQ youth lifestreams and new media narratives as connective identity texts. New Media & Society 19(4): 560-578.
Nell Haynes. 2019. Analyzing the Unassuming Aesthetic: Critical Visual Analysis of Social (Media) Norms. American Anthropological Association conference.
Aslaug Veum and Linda Victoria Moland Undrum. 2018. The Selfie as Global Discourse. Discourse & Society 29(1): 86-103.
Kate Miltner. 2018. Internet Memes. The Sage Handbook of Social Media. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Audience Analysis
Stuart Hall. 1993. Encoding, Decoding from The Cultural Studies Reader. Simon During, ed. pp 90-103. New York: Routledge.
David Mathieu. 2015. The Continued Relevance of Reception Analysis in the Age of
Social Media. Trípodos no. 36:13-34.