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Publication details [#60404]

Jones, Rodney H. 2015. Generic intertextuality in online social activism: The case of the It Gets Better project. Language in Society 44 (3) : 317–339.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

internet | intertextuality | participation framework | storytelling | video

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper underlines the potential of new online storytelling practices, like generic intertextuality (here in It Gets Better videos), for social activism, and defies ideas that new media add to the loss of regular narrative traditions.