Relational work in digital communication : the case of Greek food blogs / Angeliki Tzanne.

By:

Tzanne, Angeliki [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Athens : Pedio, 2022.Description: 310 pages ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789606353765

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

302.2314

Contents:

Introduction -- Theoretical considerations -- Politic and positively marked relational work in Greek food blogs -- Negatively marked relational work in Greek food blogs -- -- Conclusion.

Summary: "Food blogging is a popular activity in online communication that brings together people with a shared interest in food and cooking. This book could be seen as a guide to the relationships food bloggers and blog visitors create, maintain, challenge and reconstruct with the comments they post. Examining 2,472 comments from ten amateur Greek food blogs, the book focuses on the relational work participants perform and arrives at the rather surprising conclusion that the most frequently appearing act, that of praising posted recipes and dishes, is here simply adequate and appropriate behaviour for food blogs that goes largely unnoticed and unanswered by bloggers. The book also discusses comments of polite behaviour and compliments, which go further than expected to construct relationships of closeness and solidarity among interactants. The book argues convincingly that the least frequent type of relational work in the corpus is offensive behaviour and conflict, which sets Greek food blogs apart from other contexts of digital communication where impoliteness prevails. Through the polite or merely politic (appropriate) and rarely offensive comments they exchange, food bloggers and blog visitors construct for themselves a wide array of social identities which inhabit the world of Greek food blogs." -- Back cover.

Holdings ( 1 )
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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	302.2314 TZA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000011216		Placas, Aimee

Total holds: 0

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 283-303.

Introduction -- Theoretical considerations -- Politic and positively marked relational work in Greek food blogs -- Negatively marked relational work in Greek food blogs -- -- Conclusion.

"Food blogging is a popular activity in online communication that brings together people with a shared interest in food and cooking. This book could be seen as a guide to the relationships food bloggers and blog visitors create, maintain, challenge and reconstruct with the comments they post. Examining 2,472 comments from ten amateur Greek food blogs, the book focuses on the relational work participants perform and arrives at the rather surprising conclusion that the most frequently appearing act, that of praising posted recipes and dishes, is here simply adequate and appropriate behaviour for food blogs that goes largely unnoticed and unanswered by bloggers. The book also discusses comments of polite behaviour and compliments, which go further than expected to construct relationships of closeness and solidarity among interactants.
The book argues convincingly that the least frequent type of relational work in the corpus is offensive behaviour and conflict, which sets Greek food blogs apart from other contexts of digital communication where impoliteness prevails. Through the polite or merely politic (appropriate) and rarely offensive comments they exchange, food bloggers and blog visitors construct for themselves a wide array of social identities which inhabit the world of Greek food blogs." -- Back cover.