Performing citizenship on YouTube: activism, satire and online debate around the anti-Islam videoFitna

A Linguistic Analysis of the Online Debate on Vaccines and Use of Fora as Information Stations and Confirmation Niche

This study looks at the communication between users concerning health risks, with the aim of exploring their use of fora and assessing whether participants establish a niche with like-minded users during these exchanges. By integrating a corpus linguistic approach with content analysis and multiple studies on computer mediated health discourse, this study analyses the intense attention paid to ...

Islam and Online Imagery on Malaysian Tourist Destination Websites

In December 1996, TIME magazine published an article titled ‘‘Finding God on the Web,’’ which projected how the Internet would shape information seeking on faith and religion. A decade later, the Web has become a popular tool for gathering religious information as well as information and imagery related to religious travel. Yet there is little research on religious destination imagery online. I...

RUNNING HEAD: YOUTUBE AS A PUBLIC SPHERE YouTube as a public sphere: The Proposition 8 debate

Walking in the neighbourhood: Performing social citizenship in dementia

The proliferation of community-based activity programs for people with dementia suggests an appetite for new approaches to support quality of life and well-being for this population. Such groups also have potential to promote social citizenship, although this remains poorly understood. This article presents findings from a subset of data from an ethnographic study of a community-based program f...

"YouTube Debate": A New Era of Internetized Television Politics?