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Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 22] 2019
► pp. 31–48

Social media research

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Social media and Web 2.0
  • 3.Looking back
  • 4.Complicating context
  • 5.The situatedness of online interactions: Users, blended data and mixed methods
  • 6.Looking forward
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 23 December 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.22.soc7
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