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Perspectivization in the thematic exploration of atypical depressive self-talk in an unmanaged online depression community on Weibo Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Yating Chen, Charity Lee, Pei Soo Ang
Unmanaged online depression communities (ODCs), which are self-formed without managers or professional support groups, are characterized by negative emotional sharing that is often context-absent and highly self-attentional. The atypical features of emotional narratives pose challenges for examining the communities’ communication patterns and themes of sensemaking. This study explores some methodological
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HRT in DMC? the orthographic representation of high rising terminals in WhatsApp Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Christian Ilbury
Contemporary research has shown that a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods is productive in exploring patterns of Digitally Mediated Communication (DMC). In this paper, I demonstrate the analytical potential of this approach by studying the typographic representation of a prosodic feature of spoken language – High Rising Terminals (HRTs, e.g., that beer pong place I went for my birthday
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Technography as a synergetic methodology for the study of stories Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Alex Georgakopoulou
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People incorrectly correcting other people: The pragmatics of (re-)corrections and their negotiation in a Facebook group Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Karina Frick, Dimitrios Meletis
In highly standardized literate cultures, orthographic norms are perceived as socially binding, giving rise to negative evaluations of ‘incorrect’ writing, i.e., writing that deviates from the norm. This is evident in prescriptive practices in interactions on social media including direct corrections of a deviance (*you’re) or comments more or less implicitly referring to it (“would be great if you
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Woman/life/freedom: The social semiotics behind the 2022 Iranian protest movement Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Dariush Izadi, Stephanie Dryden
Modern day protest movements consist of demands for social action to address entrenched issues such as government leadership and long-standing traditions and values. Driven by an initiating event that incites a collective societal outburst and mobilisation, protestors engage a range of linguistic and semiotic expressions to challenge existing discourses, increasingly platforming these messages globally
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Meowmy, Pawrents and Menschenwelpen ‘human puppies’: Linguistic practices of Doing Interspecies Families on German Instagram Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Miriam Lind
Looking at cute animal images and videos has become a popular online pastime and animals themselves increasingly appear as actors in social media who have their own accounts and profiles from which they ‘speak’ to and ‘interact’ with us. This development goes hand in hand with a change in human-animal relations in most of Western cultures, where pets – especially cats and dogs – are more and more often
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Turning heads and making conversation on Twitch Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Darren J. Reed
This paper undertakes an analysis of the streaming platform Twitch. Twitch is premised upon a single Streamer and a large audience. Interaction between a Streamer and an individual Chat member is constructed by the Streamer through a form of acknowledgement and ratification that leads to a momentary encounter. Strategic ‘reading’ and reading aloud not only function to link and sustain conversation
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Discourses of political blame games: Introduction Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Sten Hansson, Ruth Page
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Vlogger, storyteller or character? Chronotopic identity shifts and multimodal resources in COVID-19 vlogs Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Anna De Fina, Jungyoon Koh
Vlogs, as one of the most popular digital genres for the construction of personal experience, are an important site for the study of digital storytelling. Although the narration of ongoing events is becoming increasingly common in vlogs, narration of past events is still present. As they incorporate both storytelling modes, vloggers also act as editors curating and commenting on their materials. Thus
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Discourse practices of video-oriented textual comments Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Thomas C. Messerli, Miriam A. Locher
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Managing blame for racism in broadcast media Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Jessica S. Robles, Yarong Xie
How do people negotiate blame for racism? In this article we focus on how participants manage the blameworthiness of racism—as a problem in society, and in relation to specific racist incidents—by scrutinising how sources of racism are formulated in broadcast media. This research develops our understanding of how racism is constructed in society as well as how blame functions to allocate responsibility
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Multimodal expression of impoliteness in YouTube reaction videos to transgender activism Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Marta Andersson
This study examines the genre of YouTube reaction videos as a distinct form of cultural production and social influence in online communication. Despite its prevalence and popularity, the genre has received limited scholarly attention, particularly with regard to reactions to ideological activism. This paper aims to fill this gap by conducting a social semiotic discourse analysis of videos reviewing
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Discursive blame attribution strategies in migration news frames: How blame for perceived migration-related problems is mediated in journalistic framing Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Sandra Simonsen
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Othering through blame: The EU as the blame target in the UK government’s post-Brexit rhetoric Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Monika Brusenbauch Meislová
This article uniquely illustrates the intricate and complex dynamics between blame and the othering process. It does so by unearthing how the British Conservative government, led by Boris Johnson, systematically used blame to reproductively depict the EU, , as the “other” to the British “self” between 1 January 2021 (the end of the transition period) and 6 September 2022 (the end of Johnson’s tenure
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Coercive impoliteness and blame avoidance in government communication Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Sten Hansson
As government officeholders face criticism for misconduct or policy failures, they are tempted to communicate in self-defensive ways. In this paper, I draw attention to how strategic blame avoidance in government may involve coercive impoliteness, that is, the use of expressions that attack the face of (potential) critics with an aim of forcing them to withhold their (future) criticism. Taking a discourse-historical
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Responding to subtitled K-drama: Artefact-orientation in timed comments Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Thomas C. Messerli, Miriam A. Locher
This study examines artefact-orientation in timed comments on the streaming platform Viki and contributes to research on text-based video-oriented communication. Commenters post text messages next to the subtitled videos while they are streaming, and their comments thus relate in specific ways to the artefact they complement. We explore what aspects apparent in fan subtitles are taken up in timed comments
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Dialogic analysis of government social media communication: How commanding and thanking elicit blame Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Ruth Page, Sten Hansson
During major crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, government officeholders issue commands to change people’s behaviour (e.g., ‘Stay at home!’) and express thanks to acknowledge the efforts of others and build solidarity. We use specialised datasets of replies to social media posts by government ministers in the United Kingdom during Covid-19 lockdowns to explore how people react to their messages
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Multimodal computation or interpretation? Automatic vs. critical understanding of text-image relations in racist memes in English Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Chiara Polli, Maria Grazia Sindoni
This paper discusses the epistemological differences between the label ‘multimodal’ in computational and sociosemiotic terms by addressing the challenges of automatic detection of hate speech in racist memes, considered as germane families of multimodal artifacts. Assuming that text-image interplays, such is the case of memes, may be extremely complex to disentangle by AI-driven models, the paper adopts
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Disciplined body: How players design their game movements for the machine Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Burak S. Tekin
This study examines in video game playing activities in which players produce their game moves with their bodies. Disciplined body refers to particularly designed bodily movements, orienting to their recognizability by the machine. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, this study demonstrates that participants endogenously display a sensitivity towards machine’s recognition, through
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“I read the rules and know what is expected of me”: The performance of competence and expertise in ‘newbie’ offenders’ membership requests to dark web child abuse communities Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Emily Chiang
Community-building among groups of child abusers on the ‘dark web’ facilitates the large-scale distribution of indecent imagery and supports individuals in becoming more skilled, more dangerous offenders. Undercover police are tasked with posing as offenders to gather intelligence; however, we know little about the nature of these groups, and especially how one might approach them linguistically as
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“Say, are you a little ashamed” – Shame allocation and accountability in Israeli news interviews Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Yael Gaulan, Michal Marmorstein, Zohar Kampf
In light of the growing emotionalization of public discourse, this article deals with the action of shame allocation in Israeli accountability interviews. A qualitative analysis of tokens of the Hebrew verb lehitbayesh ‘to be ashamed’ in political interviews was conducted using Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis methods. The findings show that in this public context the verb lehitbayesh
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‘We are not putschists’: Accountability and the negotiation of membership categories in political news interviews Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Abdulrahman Alroumi
This paper observes the emergence of membership categories and their role in the construction of accountability in news interview interactions on two Arabic networks. It adopts a Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) to analyse how these categories contribute to the design of interviewers’ questions and interviewees’ answers. The data include twenty-eight hours of recorded Arab news interviews from
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Who sits at the Chef’s Table? Food criticism and the spectacle of elite gastronomy Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Jordan MacKenzie, Helen Dominic
The discursive mediation of “elite taste” is a central ideological production of food critics, cultural arbiters of what entails “good food,” as well as who entails a “good cook.” In this paper, we employ a mediatized critical discourse analytic approach to scrutinize one brand of “elite taste” as mediated by food critics in the Netflix series Chef’s Table. Specifically, we identify the role of the
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Intensifying expletive constructions and their use on social media: Innovative functions of the hashtag #wokeAF in English tweets Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Andreea S. Calude, Amber Anderson, David Trye
The hashtag has seen increasing attention in the linguistics literature, in recognition of its prevalence on social media and in other modes of communication. Here, we report on a diachronic analysis of the hashtag #wokeAF in English-language tweets posted between 2012 and 2022. First, we trace the use of the word woke from verb to adjective, with novel uses arising in African American Vernacular English
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Introducing mediated discrimination: Intersections of gender, sexuality and media discourse Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Robert Lawson, Laura Coffey-Glover
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At the breast is best?’ A corpus-informed feminist critical discourse analysis of the marginalisation of expressing human milk in online infant feeding promotional discourse Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-01 Laura Coffey-Glover, Victoria Howard
Existing feminist analyses of infant feeding practices have examined the promotion of long-term exclusive direct breastfeeding (DBF) as symbolic of “total motherhood” (Wolf 2011), where formula feeding is framed in contrast as “risky” (Murphy, 1999, Murphy, 2000, Brookes et al., 2016, Woollard, 2018). Discourses of expressing human milk (EHM), and their discriminatory potential, are currently under-researched
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Entitlement Racism on YouTube: White injury—the licence to Humiliate Roma migrants in the UK Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Petre Breazu
Hate speech monitoring has become a challenging task for social media platforms. While efforts have been made to combat racism and other forms of hate speech, marginalised communities, such as the Roma are frequent targets of intense discrimination and online racist abuse. This article examines manifestations of Romaphobia, also known as anti-Roma racism, on YouTube in the context of 2016 UK Referendum
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Editorial: The changing shape of media dialogical networks Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Jiří Nekvapil, Petr Kaderka, Simon Smith
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Dialogical networking as a journalistic practice: The case of Czech television news production Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Petr Kaderka
As a journalistic work routine, ‘dialogical networking’ typically consists in approaching relevant ‘stakeholders’ and later presenting their ‘voices’ in media products, often in a dialogical manner (e.g., as claims and counterclaims). The aim of this paper is to describe the practices of journalistic dialogical networking and elucidate, from a praxeological perspective, how they are embedded in other
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#Twospirit: Identity construction through stance-taking on TikTok Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Francesca Marino
Digital platforms offer users various meaning-making resources to express their stances towards specific issues, and, as a result, to perform and manage their identities. Drawing on multimodal discourse analysis, this paper explored how individuals who identify as Two-Spirit, an umbrella term used within Native American communities to refer to non-binary people, discursively construct their identities
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Online translinguistic practices of the Global South through the lens of ordinariness: Reflections on some extra-ordinary insights Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Alex Georgakopoulou
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Closing live video streams: A sequential analysis Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Le Song, Christian Licoppe
Research has argued that “ordinary conversation” and its organization are foundational to “institutional” talk (Drew & Heritage, 1992), and that institutional forms can be characterized as constraints on such a sequential organization. Such an argument can be extended to technology-mediated interaction, in which participants may orient jointly to “standard” conversational sequences and the technology’s
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Editorial Introduction: Normativities of languaging from the Global South: The social media discourse Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-07 Sender Dovchin, Dariush Izadi
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Exploring the use of emoji in museum social network sites Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Cecilia Lazzeretti
This paper aims to explore how emoji make meaning in interaction with other semiotic resources in museum social media posts. In so doing, it examines to what extent emoji are changing the way museums communicate with their audiences. The analysis is based on a corpus of museum social posts and grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Findings show that emoji make meaning not only in interaction
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“This is not the place to bother people about BTS”: Pseudo-synchronicity and interaction in timed comments by Hallyu fans on the video streaming platform Viki Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Miriam A. Locher, Thomas C. Messerli
The community of users on Viki.com, a video streaming platform distributing Asian television to an international audience, use the site to engage with streams of television dramas. Rather than just being passive consumers, viewers interact in a range of different ways, among them the use of Timed Comments (TC). TCs are comments viewers post while viewing dramas. Subsequent viewers can read these comments
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Entextualizing affective meanings: Translingual practices in Cape Verdean music video reception Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Kimberly S. Hansen, Lyana L. Sun Han Chang, A. Suresh Canagarajah
Multilingual interactions on digital platforms such as YouTube reveal complex translingual practices and negotiation strategies on the part of viewers. Two live performances sung in Cape Verdean Creole (Kriolu) by Mayra Andrade, a Cape Verdean music artist, uploaded to YouTube by different digital media platforms generated these types of interactions. These interactions were analyzed by adopting Wortham
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dalawhatyoumust: Kaaps, translingualism and linguistic citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Zaib Toyer, Amiena Peck
In 2016 Wayde Van Niekerk, a South African athlete of mixed-race heritage won an Olympic gold medal. In South Africa, his win caused hashtags such as #proudlysouthafrican, #blackexcellence and #colouredexcellence to trend online. By and large, these hashtags index the ongoing competitive discourses regarding nationalism, race and culture in Cape Town (cf. Author, 2018). Amongst these hashtags, however
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Acknowledgement of Reviewers Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-03
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Enacting polyvocal scorn in #CovidConspiracy tweets: The orchestration of voices in humorous responses to COVID-19 conspiracy theories Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Marta Dynel, Michele Zappavigna
Despite the abundance of research into conspiracy theories, including multiple studies of Covid-19 conspiracy theories in particular, user reactions to conspiracy theories are an underexplored area of social media discourse. This study aims to fill this gap by examining a dataset of humorous responses to proliferating COVID-19 conspiracy theories based on a corpus of tweets bearing the pejorative hashtag
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The small things of Global South: Exploring the use of social media through translingualism Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Stephanie Dryden, Dariush Izadi
In this paper, we present a research approach that sheds light on how netizens on social media perform and negotiate their multimodal and multisemiotic repertoires embedded within their social media languaging practices. This approach brings multimodal social semiotics into conversation with the normativity of translingualism to problematise the notion of languages as being ‘ordinary’ or ‘mundane’
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Gendered discourses and pejorative language use: An analysis of YouTube comments on We should all be feminists Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Grace Diabah
Guided by Discourse and Ideology theory, this paper focuses on how authors of the YouTube comments on Chimamanda Adichie’s talk ‘We should all be feminists’ use pejoratives or insults to reinforce or challenge certain gender ideologies and practices. Since feminism is already a thorny issue, Chimamanda’s call for all to be feminists is seen as controversial and, thus, a recipe for inflammatory language
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“Everyone has it, everyone uses it”: The emergence of “publicness” through multiplication in dialogical networks Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Ron Korenaga, Tom Ogawa
This paper explores news production as “participatory journalism” in which ordinary people directly participate via the Internet. While participatory journalism idealises citizens' and journalists’ co-creation, there are said to be limitations such as loss of quality, which results from the insularism of participants. In this paper, we consider the example of a Japanese TV news programme as participatory
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The ordinariness and extraordinariness of resistance: Young Bangladeshi professional women doing/undoing gender Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-16 Shaila Sultana, Ana Deumert
This article is part of a larger study that considers how middle-class Bangladeshi women perform gender in online and offline contexts, the kinds of discourses they draw on, and the translingual resources that they engage with. In developing our argument, we first discuss colonial and post-colonial discourses about South Asian women. These historical discourses are still present in contemporary society
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‘Go home to the second wave!’: Discourses of trans inclusion and exclusion in a queer women’s online community Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Aimee Bailey
As the visibility of trans movements has increased in recent years, so too has the antagonism between trans rights supporters and some sections of the feminist and lesbian communities (Phipps, 2016; Hines, 2017, Pearce et al., 2020). This antagonism is especially pronounced in digital spaces, where online discussions have fuelled an increasing polarisation of the debate (Hines, 2017). This paper examines
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Translingual online identities in the global South: The construction of local ‘gang cultures’ in the social media spaces of Balkan and South Korean artists Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-31 Eldin Milak, Ana Tankosić
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Mask communication: The development of the face covering as a semiotic resource through government public health posters in England and Wales Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-30 Angela Smith, Michael Higgins
This paper will explore the multi-modal semiotic properties of a selection of key public health information posters issued by the UK Westminster government on the use of masks and face coverings during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using multi-modal critical discourse analysis, we show how the posters featuring masks sustained consistent government-led branding, while drawing upon what we
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Internet memes as knowledge practice in social movements: Rethinking Economics’ delegitimization of economists Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Tenna Foustad Harbo
Following della Porta and Pavan (2017), progressive social movements act as laboratories of innovation and knowledge creation in their pursuit to reform or resist societal structures. Simultaneously, movements are increasingly dependent upon digital tools and platforms, including social media, in their effort to organize, diffuse and saturate their agendas. Through an analysis of Rethinking Economics’
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‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Gavin Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik
This article critically examines discourse representations of men in a large online vegan community. The analysis reveals a set of discourses which provide oppositional representations of vegan and non-vegan men, wherein the former is aligned with hegemonic masculine norms and the latter represented as transgressing or falling short of these norms. We interpret these discourses as providing means for
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Digital rockets: Resisting necropolitics through defiant languaging and artivism Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Daniel Silva, Junot Maia
This article draws from our ethnography in the Complexo do Alemão favelas (neighborhoods built by residents) in Rio de Janeiro to discuss how Black activists bring affordances of digitalization and enregistered practices into broader arenas of political participation. We unpack our own positionality and experience with the armed surveillance and securitization of normative regimes that challenge (and
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Magical women: Representations of female characters in the Witcher video game series Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Frazer Heritage
Several videogames allow players to form their own narratives by making the player choose certain options with different dialogues and thus different representations. This can be problematic when exploring the representation of gender from the perspective of player’s experiences. I argue that one way to overcome this is to use corpus linguistic methods. In this paper, the videogame series The Witcher
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“What have you done?” Accounting for Covid-19 lockdown breaches on talk radio Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Marina N. Cantarutti, Rosina Márquez Reiter
The establishment of social distancing guidance during the first months of the Covid19 pandemic in the UK made behaviour in public spaces open to scrutiny, as observed in reports of lockdown (non)compliance in different types of media. This paper analyses a collection of 13 calls to BBC phone-ins where people publicly admit to breaking the lockdown. It offers an interactional analysis of the discursive
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Men of today, soyboys of tomorrow: Constructions of masculinities in YouTube responses to Gillette’s The Best Men Can Be Discourse, Context & Media (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Mandie Iveson, Federica Formato
In this article, we investigate, through corpus linguistics and qualitative approaches, YouTube responses to an advert which attempts to bring to the fore detrimental masculine toxic behaviours. With the affordances proper to the medium - anonymity, disinhibition, and de-individuation - our investigation focuses on three gendered terms representing subordinate masculinities (Messerschmidt, 2018): soy