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The microblogging discourse of disasters: Twitter and Weibo in action in the aftermath of two major industrial accidents

Authors :
Martin Montgomery
Xiaoping Wu
Source :
Social Semiotics. :1-19
Publication Year :
2021
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2021.

Abstract

This study explores how micro-bloggers react to disasters in social media by examining the discursive-semiotic activities activated in Twitter and Weibo in responding to the 2013 West explosion in ...

Subjects

Subjects :
Cultural Studies
Linguistics and Language
Action (philosophy)
Microblogging
Communication
Political science
Discourse analysis
Media studies
Social media
Language and Linguistics

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ISSN :
14701219 and 10350330
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Social Semiotics
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........a428065a89adef65f8c453710a38f800
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2021.1931097
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