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In:Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
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Social media research

Published online: 3 October 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.soc7
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
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