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Language, Identity Online and Running

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  • © 2021

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Authors:
  1. Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton

    1. School of Social Sciences and Humanities, College of Business and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

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  • Takes an ethnographic approach to the language and identity of runners in new media contexts
  • Uses analytical tools from discourse studies, computer mediated communication, social psychology and education
  • Encourages runners to be reflective about their practices and study their own runner identity

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Exploring Runners’ Digital Lives: An Introduction

    • Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton
    Pages 1-28

  3. Researching Online Discourses in an Ultrarunning Group

    • Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton
    Pages 29-52

  4. ‘Ways of Being’ Online: The Case of an Ultrarunning Group

    • Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton
    Pages 53-88

  5. “In Doing This Research, I Find My Runner Identity Is Compromised”: Researching the Instarunning Community

    • Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton
    Pages 89-109

  6. Exploring Lived Experiences and Runnerblogging on Instagram

    • Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton
    Pages 111-145

  7. On Motivational Currents and Becoming a Runner

    • Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton
    Pages 147-177

  8. From Running a Mile or Two to Running Ultras: An Autoethnographic Study

    • Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton
    Pages 179-206

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 207-213
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About this book

This book focuses on language and identity online within the context of running from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together digital ethnography, existential phenomenology, interpretative phenomenological analysis and sporting embodiment in the pursuit to explore runners’ lived experiences and identities online. Language, identity and identity online are often studied in broader social contexts such as education, culture and politics, and running is intimately related to key issues in contemporary society, such as health and exercise, sport and nationalism, embracing a variety of discourse types and having implications more generally for our identity as human beings. The evolving online media through which people make sense of who they are and which groups they belong to are enabling new ways of realising identities and relationships. This book will be of interest to applied linguists, discourse analysts, as well as those interested in sports, sports psychology, and identity enactment. 


Reviews

“This is a beautifully written book presenting intertwined studies on digital identities among runners. It combines fine-grained research and personal insight to reveal how running identity is communicated in these vibrant online communities. While these revelations are addressed to those interested in understanding identity in digital contexts, I wouldn’t be surprised if some readers felt like lacing up a pair of running shoes and joining them, after reading this book.”

-Patrick Kiernan, Meiji University, Japan




Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Social Sciences and Humanities, College of Business and Social Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton

About the author

Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton is Lecturer in English Language at Aston University, UK. She has experience of working on a range of teacher education research projects in the fields of teacher development and technology in teaching and learning, with language teachers in the UK and overseas. She has previously published one of her teacher education projects into post-observation feedback under the title Confirmatory Feedback in Teacher Education: An Instigator of Student Teacher Learning  (2016, Palgrave Macmillan). Her research interests include teacher
development, technology in teaching and learning, and social media research, particularly in the sport of running.

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