Commitment online: On taking responsibility for one’s words on social media

Tanesini, Alessandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-471X 2025. Commitment online: On taking responsibility for one’s words on social media. Connolly, P. J., Goldberg, Sandford C. and Saul, Jennifer M., eds. Conversations Online: Explorations in Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 151-172. (10.1093/oso/9780198872085.003.0008)

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Abstract

The principal aim of this chapter is to argue that several of the design features of social networking sites (SNSs) are inimical to the creation and preservation of conversational contexts where speakers and their audiences can undertake commitments in the making of, and responding to, speech acts online. Its subsidiary aim is to provide a taxonomy of the most common families of communicative acts facilitated by SNSs. In this chapter, for reasons of space, I focus on three of these families and dedicate them a section each. These are direct calls and acknowledgments; expressions of emotional attitudes; and ostensions to existing content. In each case, I explain the nature of the communicative acts that belong to that family; detail the affordances of SNSs that encourage their performance; and show that these same affordances also facilitate infelicities in the execution of the communicative acts they promote.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISBN:	9780198872085
Last Modified:	06 Jun 2025 13:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178860

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