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SENSEMAKING THROUGH ADAPTIVE COLLECTIVE STORYTELLING A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF NONISLAMIC POSTINGS ON TWITTERSPHERE UNDER ENHANCED VIRTUAL ETHNOGRAPHY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2023(VI-II).13      10.31703/gdpmr.2023(VI-II).13      Published : Jun 2023

Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Non-Islamic Postings on Twittersphere under Enhanced Virtual Ethnography

Abstract

    The aim of the present study is to understand the discourse of Twitter stories under enhanced virtual ethnography and sense-making through an adaptive collective storytelling perspective. The selected approach is a joint framework of Enhanced Virtual Ethnography by Hair & Clark and Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling by Beitti, Tilson & Bagerte. There are nine different aspects of analysis and for the sample of the study, four stories from Twittersphere are taken. Results of the study show that narrators’’ present a discourse which is not culturally acceptable and the selected discourse is prohibited to show publicly, so narrators are taking advantage of social media. Results also advocate that narrators are intended to promote new ideological stances, cultural constructions, socially exempted knowledge, and new aspects of information for the existence of the masses. Furthermore, there is neglecting Islamic values, culture and ideology in Pakistan.

    Twittersphere, Critical Narrative Analysis, Sensemaking, Adaptive Collective Storytelling and Enhanced Virtual Ethnography

    (1) Waqasia Naeem
    Associate Professor, School of English, Minhaj University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Nadia Shaukat
    M.Phil. Scholar, Applied Linguistics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Punjab Pakistan.
    (3) Mehwish Jameel
    M.Phil. Scholar, Applied Linguistics, School of English, Minhaj University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Naeem, W., Shaukat, N., & Jameel, M. (2023). Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Non-Islamic Postings on Twittersphere under Enhanced Virtual Ethnography. Global Digital & Print Media Review, VI(II), 198-210. https://doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2023(VI-II).13

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Naeem, Waqasia, Nadia Shaukat, and Mehwish Jameel. 2023. "Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Non-Islamic Postings on Twittersphere under Enhanced Virtual Ethnography." Global Digital & Print Media Review, VI (II): 198-210 doi: 10.31703/gdpmr.2023(VI-II).13

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    HARVARD : NAEEM, W., SHAUKAT, N. & JAMEEL, M. 2023. Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Non-Islamic Postings on Twittersphere under Enhanced Virtual Ethnography. Global Digital & Print Media Review, VI, 198-210.

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    MHRA : Naeem, Waqasia, Nadia Shaukat, and Mehwish Jameel. 2023. "Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Non-Islamic Postings on Twittersphere under Enhanced Virtual Ethnography." Global Digital & Print Media Review, VI: 198-210

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    MLA : Naeem, Waqasia, Nadia Shaukat, and Mehwish Jameel. "Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Non-Islamic Postings on Twittersphere under Enhanced Virtual Ethnography." Global Digital & Print Media Review, VI.II (2023): 198-210 Print.

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    OXFORD : Naeem, Waqasia, Shaukat, Nadia, and Jameel, Mehwish (2023), "Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Non-Islamic Postings on Twittersphere under Enhanced Virtual Ethnography", Global Digital & Print Media Review, VI (II), 198-210

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Naeem, Waqasia, Nadia Shaukat, and Mehwish Jameel. "Sensemaking through Adaptive Collective Storytelling: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Non-Islamic Postings on Twittersphere under Enhanced Virtual Ethnography." Global Digital & Print Media Review VI, no. II (2023): 198-210. https://doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2023(VI-II).13