Walz2021
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Walz2021 |
| Author(s) | Linda Walz |
| Title | “It’s time to shift this blog a bit”: Categorial Negotiation as a Local and Cumulative Accomplishment |
| Editor(s) | Joanne Meredith, David Giles, Wyke Stommel |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Membership Categorization Analysis, Blogs |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Year | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| City | Cham |
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| Pages | 65–86 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-64922-7_4 |
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| Book title | Analysing Digital Interaction |
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the use of membership categorisation analysis (MCA) to explore how the negotiation of identity categories is achieved in blogs about transnational relocation. Whilst MCA views categories as locally occasioned members’ resources, this research argues that due to the inherently chronological nature of blogging, categorial work in this context is also a cumulative accomplishment. Distinguishing between category fit and category change negotiations, the chapter discusses the challenge that categorial negotiations without explicit mention pose due to the largely monologic nature of blogging, and how an understanding of categorial work as both local and building upon previous negotiation leads to considerations of the locus of analysis of MCA. Therefore, a longitudinal approach to categorial negotiation promises new insight into such online data.
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