Generic intertextuality in online social activism: The case of the It Gets Better project.

The It Gets Better project has been held up as a model of successful social media activism. This article explores how narrators of It Gets Better videos make use of generic intertextuality, strategically combining the canonical narrative genres of the exemplum, the testimony, and the confession in a...

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Publicado en:Language in Society Vol. 44; no. 3; pp. 317 - 340
Autor principal: Jones, Rodney H.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Jun2015
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