Download Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions by Marta Dynel - mirror 1 ---> http://po.st/6prRQ1 mirror 2 ---> http://tinyurl.com/mryet6b mirror 3 --> --------------- <br />Synopsis: This chapter discusses the function of blogs as tools enhancing citizen participation<br>in political communication. Adopting the perspective of corpus-assisted<br>critical discourse analysis, a set of blogs from the US presidential election<br>campaign are analysed in order to determine the frequency of reference to<br>the candidates, the parties, as well as the bloggers themselves. The analysis of<br>pronoun choice, verbs and modality indicate that blogs enhance participation<br>rhetoric. The data further indicate that citizen bloggers attach importance<br>to individual political figures th
