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Nexus Analysis

Nexus Analysis introduces a new and exciting theory by two of the leading names

in discourse analysis and provides a practical ﬁeldguide to its application.

People, places, discourses, and objects form the key elements of social action.

‘Nexus analysis’ allows participants to explore these elements and trace their

historical trajectories towards actions, in order to anticipate their outcomes.

Using as a study their own experience of pioneering computer-mediated com-

munication in Alaska in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the authors conduct a

‘nexus analysis’ of those events and discourses. As email and audio/video confer-

encing technologies expanded the possibilities for education and social interaction,

the authors played an active role in shaping and analyzing their use. Looking back

on that early formative period and assessing its impact on the present world, the

authors evaluate moments of social importance in order to examine the linkages

among social practices, Alaskan peoples, and technologies. They consider the

power of communication media to cause and ramify change.

In this intellectually captivating yet accessible book, Ron Scollon and Suzie

Wong Scollon provide the reader with a working example of a new theory in

action, as well as a personal and engaging snapshot of a key moment in the

history of communication technology, as Internet technology transformed

Alaskan life.

Ron Scollon is Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University, USA and is

Editor of Visual Communication . Suzie Wong Scollon is Network Coordinator,

Associated Sociocultural Research Projects, Georgetown University, USA. Their

book: Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World , was published in 2003 by

Routledge.

Nexus Analysis

Discourse and the emerging Internet

Ron Scollon and

Suzie Wong Scollon

First published 2004 in the USA and Canada by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2004.

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book is true and accurate at the time of going to press. However, neither the

publisher nor the authors can accept any legal responsibility or liability for

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ISBN 0-203-69434-1 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-34517-7 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-32062-3 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-32063-1 (pbk)

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