Discourses on discourse, shifting contexts and digital media

The focal point of this contribute is how the advent of the digital has affected discourse studies with a view to unearthing emergent discourse practices and reconfigurations of interactional dynamics. We purposefully refer to emergence and reconfiguration, since we are interested in recognising points of contact with the past without invoking newness and uniqueness of the current digital scenarios and discourse practices at any cost. While some scenarios are certainly new, reflections on if and how this newness should be epistemologically tackled appear urgent and undelayable, especially when media and their affordances rapidly change and prompt the emergence of fluctuating communities, discourse/s and contexts.