Four Ways of Not Saying Something in Digital Kinshasa. Or, On the Substance of Shadow Conversations KU Leuven
Given that online communication is very much embedded in a pragmatics of everyday life, especially the management of social relationships, and that encoding and decoding are familiar practices to many, the main argument of this chapter then is that, if we want to grasp the social bearings of online communication such as Whatsapp status updates, Facebook Stories, and Instagram publications, we need to acknowledge and analyse the online exegesis ...