Book Review : KhosraviNik, M (ed.) (2023). Social media and society: Integrating the digital with the social in digital discourse

Conflicts, such as gender antagonism, racial hostilities, and international tensions, are constantly intensified with the deepening divisions among different social groups in contemporary societies. Social media, with its prevalence and communicative affordances, has become a major site where a
range of discriminatory, exclusionary, and intolerant discourses and beliefs are (re-)produced and consumed (see Kopytowska, 2017). As such, the critical examination of digital discourse has now become ever more relevant. Against this backdrop, the publication of Social Media and Society: Integrating the Digital with the Social in Digital Discourse edited by Majid KhosraviNik is certainly timely and topical