Table of contents // PREFACE // Researching interactional forms and participant structures in public and social media i // Jan Chovanec and Marta Dynel // Part I. Reconsidering participation frameworks // Participation frameworks and participation in televised sitcom, candid camera and stand-up comedy 27 // Alexander Brock // Participation structures in Twitter interaction: Arguing // for the broadcaster role 49 // Fawn Draucker // Participant roles and embedded interactions in online sports broadcasts 67 Jan Chovanec // Part II. Participation and interpersonal pragmatics // Troubles talk, (dis)affiliation and the participation order in Taiwanese-Chinese online discussion boards 99 // Michael Haugh and Wei-Lin Melody Chang // Humour in microblogging: Exploiting linguistic humour strategies for identity construction in two Facebook focus groups 135 // Miriam A. Locher and Brook Bolander // Impoliteness in the service of verisimilitude in film interaction 157 // Marta Dynel // “That’s none of your business, Sy”: The pragmatics of vocatives in film dialogue 183 // Raffaele Zago // vi Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions // Part IH. Forms of participation // A participation perspective on television evening news in the age of immediacy 211 // Linda Lombardo // What I can (re)make out of it: Incoherence, non-cohesion, and re-interpretation in YouTube video responses 233 // Elisabetta Adami // Enhancing citizen engagement: Political weblogs and participatory democracy 259 // Giorgia Riboni // Index 281