Experimenting with Writing Identities on Facebook through Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity

This study of two college students’ writing on Facebook demonstrates how participants experiment with writing identities on the social network site. Both users describe the persona options available to them on Facebook as limited yet engage in varied rhetorical experiments to achieve their intended personae. Through an analysis of data gathered in an interview with each participant and screenshots of each participant’s Facebook page, I found...