💙Ilana Gershon writes a final commentary to the #SI.
🟦The #mediating role of digital apps in romantic communication is highlighted.
🟦The role of sites in how identities are constructed is also discussed.

💙Benedict J.L. Rowlett & Kwan Ting Chung examine a forum on Butterfly, an app developed for the lesbian community in 🇭🇰.
🟦241 posts were screenshot & analysed following a quantitative & qualitative approach.
🟦Patterns in the construction of users' linguistic identity are found.

💙E. Muth Andersen explores how invitations are generated by Danish users of Tinder.
🟦Data includes 19 Tinder chats. Each message is a unit of analysis.
🟦3 strategies for invitations are found. These are collaboratively constructed by exploiting contextual factors.

💙@kurtsengul.bsky.social analyses "The Right Stuff", a dating app for conservatives.
🟦Relationships are analysed in a context of affective polarization.
🟦Analysis draws on qualitative #CDA
🟦Exclusion is embedded in the discursive positioning of the app & its digital architecture.

💙J. Banks, M. Monier & A. Samuel examine Black women’s experiences with online dating apps.
🟦They draw on Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis to analyse how women recall their experience.
🟦Discussions on the gatekeeping role of dating apps are included.

💙 @rikithompson.bsky.social draws on Multimodal CDA & ethnography to analyse Bumble's positioning as dating app.
🟦Data consists of semi-structured interviews & screen-based data of Bumble.
🟦 The app creates 3 forms of labor for women: communicative, relational, postdigital.

1️⃣1️⃣E. Aslan on how social media mediates language learning.
1️⃣2️⃣ T. K. Lee on language literacy edutainment.

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8️⃣ S. Herring commentary to the #SI Methodological synergies.
9️⃣ S. Carter-Thomas & E. Rowley-Jolivet on recontextualization of science in different genres.
🔟M.J. Luzón & S. Albero-Posac on comprehensibility in The Conversation.

4️⃣ K. Krykoniuket al. on the concept of online "discourse space".
5️⃣ S. Gao & P. Cooper on indexical shifts & fame on Douyin.
6️⃣C. Wide on expressing support to family care partners of people living with dementia.
7️⃣W. Ren & A. Ross editorial of #SI Discourses of sharing.

W. Xu & X. Shi study hyperlinks as #engagement markers in corporate discourse.
🟦Data consists of 153 Chinese websites.
🔷An analytical framework for multimodal interactional metadiscourse is proposed.
🔵Digital media #mediates business discourse.
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M.J. Luzón & S. Albero-Posac study how hyperlinks enhance #comprehensibility in dissemination articles.
🟦Data is taken from The Conversation
🔷Categories of verbal in-text elaboration are proposed.
🔵#Affordances are recontextualizing tools.
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@katebarber.bsky.social has studied legitimization through hyperlinks in blog posts.
🟦Data is taken from 5 blogs dealing with s€xuAl violence.
🔷Links are classified as different types of anchor text.
🔵Technological affordances are evidential resources
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Xi Chen analyses positioning practices when sharing personal experiences.
🟦Data, collected from Zhihu, was preprocessed by the API of a Chinese #LLM.
🔷Quantitative analysis calculates types of interaction (+ or -)
🔷Qualitative analysis shows affordances influence positioning.

Yaqian Jiang & Camilla Vásquez explore self-branding practices by teachers.
🟦Focus is on the ethnic & hybrid identity of a self-identified Tibetan English language teacher in Douyin.
🔷Analysis is guided by #SocialSemiotics.
🔷Vlogs emerge as mediated & motivating resources.