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“Modes, medium and hypertext: some theoretical and methodological

issues in the conceptualization of genre in digital texts”, Language in a

digital age: be not afraid of digitality: Proceedings from the 24th European

Systemic functional linguistics conference and workshop

1. Introduction

Old concepts and new social practices

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3. The social network: Facebook

space

activities roles1

1 In the case of Twitter, these three instances are labelled in spanish with specif words: enter to “Twitter”, “twittear”

(activity), “twitt”(text), “twittero”(role).

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4. Motivations for social networks or how users adopt the objectives of the

web as their own

2 As a boundless web of ties that reaches out through a whole society, linking people to one another,

however remotely.

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5. Interaction on Facebook

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6. Participants and roles

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7. The texts

3 From a social standpoint, this is symmetrical relations, although gradually this criterion has been modified from

privacy policies set different ranges: "best friends", "known", "family").

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Conclusions

4 In this case, it is worth considering the value of the screen metaphorical Kress notes in French, German and English,

but which also arises in Spanish, linked to its significance as object hidden from view, which prevents the observation what's behind it. In the digital text the screen covers the various encodings that coexist (electronics, html, and discourse itself with its entire network of hyperlinks).

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