Mediated Discourse Analysis

Prior to the Syrian uprisings in 2011, Syrian queer and trans* populations were rather unknown and irrelevant to global LGBT politics, Western media, and humanitarian efforts. This changed considerably after the uprisings as representations steadily increased and proliferated on social media and in journalistic accounts. This article traces this shift and argues that queer and trans* Syrians became visible primarily through a queer/humanitarian media-visibility paradigm and the construction, consolidation, and circulation of the figure of the suffering Syrian gay refugee. Drawing on analyses of what I consider pivotal events and media representations as well as journalistic writings, this article maps out the ways in which the figure of the suffering Syrian gay refugee and the associations it foregrounds emerged, circulated, and became normalized after the uprisings and years into the Syrian conflict. Furthermore, based on ethnographic fieldwork that I conducted with Syrian LGBT ref...

Steps towards improved participation? An analysis of classroom talk and the "ladder of interaction" in the Japanese context AdissertationbyTimMarchand March2010 submittedinpartialcompletionoftheMScdegreeinTeachingEnglishtoSpeakersofOtherLanguages Abstract

This book provides the first comprehensive account of temporal deixis in English printed and online news texts. Linking the characteristic usage of tenses with the projection of deictic centres, it notes how conventional tenses, particularly in headlines, are affected by heteroglossia arising from various accessed voices. The resulting tense shifts are interpreted pragmatically as a conventional reader-oriented strategy that creates the impression of temporal co-presence. It is argued that since different tense choices systematically correlate with the three main textual segments of news texts, the function of tense needs to be viewed in a close connection with its local context. Traditional news texts are also contrasted with online news, particularly as far as the effect of hypertextuality on the coding of time is concerned. A two-level structural framework for the analysis of online news is proposed in order to account for their increased textual complexity. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students working in the fields of media pragmatics, discourse analysis and stylistics.

Using data from a 3-year ethnographic study in US early childhood classrooms, I examine two kindergarten boys’ classroom play with their favourite Disney Princess transmedia to see how they negotiated gender identity layers clustered in the franchise's commercially given storylines and consumer expectations. This analysis contributes necessarily syncretic methods of analysis that enable critical examination of the complexity in children's play interactions with popular media artefacts as collaborative and heteroglossic negotiations of gender. Mediated discourse analysis of action and multimodality in boys’ Snow White princess play makes visible how children pivoted and anchored their performances as they negotiated, played, and blurred boundaries among gender identity intertexts.

The idea of modernism has brought so many changes not only in the Western world but it has also prevailed over the East. Modernism is always associated with something new, something away from the already existed and something that has replaced the old culture, customs and believes. Modernism has brought so many changes in the every field of the life especially in the field of media. Mostly the term 'modern' is associated with the Western culture and society but with the passage of time it has spread its roots to the entire world. The impacts of modernism can be seen in each and every field. On the one side it is regarded as progression but on the other side it is considered as destruction of humanity. Media is considered as the most important factor involved in spreading modern believes and customs among the people all over the World. In Pakistan role of media is very significant in order to promote Modernization by creating Western portrayal of society and the characters.

HSS8004 101296306 2 Critically assess the value and limitations of at least one of the methods of data collection or critical analysis covered in the module. Where appropriate, discuss the ethical and practical issues which may arise by the use of this method(s) within your own planned research. My Master's dissertation is researching how the 'identity crisis' in the Philippines is represented, reproduced and challenged within online media between May 28 th , Flag Day, and June 12 th , Independence Day. The research also explores the extent to which historical nation-building strategies-in particular those of José Rizal, the first renowned Filipino nationalist (Reid, 2010) -have influenced the crisis.

Lebanese poet, journalist, and revolutionary, Joumana Haddad, challenges Arabs to reevaluate their relationship with the single most present and most visible product of their existence, the body. Her recent December 2008 initiative, Jasad Magazine, does just that.

The sense of excitement that accompanied the introduction of the
Internet in the 1990s to the general public continues to inspire hopeful
speculation about its potentials more than a decade into the new mil-
lennium. In the case of Iran, the advent of and rapid developments in
Internet technologies coincided with a number of tumultuous shifts
inside the country and its immediate neighborhood, intensifying the
sense that positive transformations were on the horizon. During the
more than fifteen years since resident and Diaspora Iranians have
taken to the Internet, a number of remarkable changes have occurred.
From producing and participating in one of the most vibrant blogo-
spheres during the early days of Web 2.0 to capturing and disseminat-
ing audiovisual content during the massive demonstrations following
the June 2009 presidential election, Iranians have established a place
online and have captured international attention in so doing

This project explores the multiple forms of nationalism which are employed in Philippine online print media from 1 May to 14 June 2014 in relation to the Philippines’ alleged ‘identity crisis’. This project also examines the employment of historical motifs. This period includes the Philippine celebrations of Flag Day and Independence Day. Articles were analysed according to a newly developed form of critical discourse analysis which incorporates the discourse historical approach and mediated discourse analysis.
The project concludes that there are three dominant and distinct forms of nation-building strategies adopted within the print media – state-led nationalism, anti-colonial nationalism and postnationalism. Each strategy conceptualises Filipino nationalism and negotiates the ‘identity crisis’ in significantly different ways, and each are adopted by different groups within Philippine society.
Key Terms
Nationalism, the Philippines, Identity Crisis, state-led nationalism, anti-colonial nationalism, postnationalism.

In this chapter, I take up nexus analysis, an ethnographic sociolinguistic  approach to the study of discursive flows across scales, and its applicability to educational linguistics research.  I begin with a brief discussion that situates multidimensional inquiry in educational linguistics, highlighting the conceptual relevance of scales.  Then, turning to nexus analysis, I provide an exposition of some of its fundamental principles and how they facilitate scalar research.  Next, I discuss how these principles allow nexus analysis to be used as a meta-methodology to guide the selection and integration of multiple methods for data collection and analysis, since multi-method research is often called for in educational linguistics.  Finally, I reflect on how the principled yet flexible nature of nexus analysis makes it useful as a guide to research design in educational linguistics.

The assimilation and interaction between television and the Internet has grown significantly in recent years, boosting the penetration of the connected and hybrid television, until the HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) standard appeared. In this article we analyze the keys to this standard and make a quantitative study on its implications for the audience in terms of quality of contents, synergies between the Internet, television and social networks, inclusion of interactive advertising and other parameters of the new scenario.

In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a protest sign, a blog commenting on this sign, and a political cartoon using the same image featured on two other signs. I explore how social actors drew upon and mediated specific discourses in their protest signs that became transportable across time and space, the role of these signs in transforming public space, and this linguistic landscape’s ensuing mobilities in its mediated relocations to online social media sites and blogs.

The Maker movement promotes hands-on making, including crafts, robotics, and computing. The movement's potential to transform education rests in our ability to address notable gender disparities, particularly in STEM fields. E-textiles—the first female-dominated computing community—provide inspiration for overcoming longstanding cultural divides in classrooms. Analysis of children's use of e-textiles reveals that materials like needles, fabric, and conductive thread rupture traditional gender scripts around electronics and implicitly gives girls hands-on access and leadership roles.  This reconceptualization of cultural divides as sets of tacitly accepted practices rooted in gendered histories has implications for reconceptualizing traditionally male-dominated areas of schooling.

Neoliberalism has grown to become the dominant political and economic agenda of our time. Its supporters hold influential positions across governments, education, the media and corporate and financial institutions, yet its effects have been largely negative for populations around the world: declining economic growth, together with most social indicators (life expectancy, mortality among infants, children, and adults, literacy, and education); increasing social and economic inequality; skewing of political power in the favour of wealthy interests; and an increase in financial activities leading to more frequent crises in which the costs are socialised. This research endeavoured to examine whether the BBC, an organisation dedicated to serving the public interest with impartial news reporting, could be said to support neoliberal interests. To do this it analysed how BBC2’s Newsnight reported the January 2015 election of the Greek political party Syriza. Syriza’s policies were markedly anti-neoliberal and thus represented a threat to the dominant economic interests of much of Europe, including the British Government. Utilising a mixed methods approach, the analysis found that through a combination of negative framing and the absence of any critical analysis or discussion of neoliberalism, BBC Newsnight’s overall reporting did in fact serve to support neoliberal interests.

The Doğru Haber (True News) is the daily newspaper of the Kurdish-Islamist Free Cause Party with links to the Kurdish Hezbollah Organization and evaluates the Turkish politics from both a separatist and an Islamist point of view. The attitude of this national-Islamist daily newspaper towards important issues of Turkish politics (Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and Syria, the ruling Justice and Development Party government, the April referendum for a constitutional amendment for the introduction of an authoritarian-presidential republic) in its headlines, news coverage and the columns is subjected to a qualitative media analysis. This study explores the political orientation of this daily.


Kürt Hizbullah Örgütü'ne yakınlığıyla bilinen Kürtçü-İslamcı Hür Dava Partisi'nin yayın organı olan Doğru Haber, Türk siyasetini bölücü ve irticai bir perspektiften değerlendirmektedir. Bu milliyetçi-İslamcı günlük gazetenin Türkiye'nin gündemindeki önemli meselelere bakışı (Türkiye, Irak ve Suriye Kürtleri, Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi iktidarı ve otoriter başkanlık sistemine geçmek amacıyla yapılan halk oylaması) manşetler, haberler ve köşe yazıları temelinde kalitatif medya analizi yardımıyla çözümlemeye tabi tutulmuştur. Bu araştırma bu parti yayın organının bağlı olduğu Hür Dava Partisi'nin yayın organının siyasal yayın çizgisini analiz etmeye hedeflemektedir.

This article provides a pragmatic interpretation of the effects of euphemistic lexical choices made in public discourse in reference to taboo topics. It contributes to the cognitive pragmatic theory of proximization by considering how euphemisms weaken the potentially negative effect of specific linguistic representations or -- more broadly -- conceptualizations of forbidden reality, on the recipients. Doing so, such expressions extend the discourse space between the unpleasant  phenomenon and the recipients’ deictic centre. Focusing on the military euphemism blue-on-blue and its use in various media, the paper interprets this expression as a strategy of discursive distanciation from the unwelcome consequences of military action. The data indicate that distanciation involves several levels of grammatical and structural transformations that obliterate the potentially negative impact by veiling the congruent, i.e. the most direct, verbalization of the event with an increasingly complex series of semantically opaque realizations.

Drawing on data from a yearlong qualitative study examining how children in a multi-age (6–9 years) classroom utilized technology to write across genres, this article examines the gendered negotiation and discursive uptake of expert in early childhood writing. Zeroing in on genius hour as a “site of engagement,” the author thinks with rhetorical genre studies and mediated discourse analysis to examine how four second-grade writers positioned themselves as “experts” across the nexus of school writing. Findings highlight how expert—both conceptually and in practice—became gendered and was interdiscursively traced through three threads: the relational, the historical, and the distributive. Through analyses of young students writing in situ, this article contributes new understandings to thinking about children’s navigation of genres, not only as rhetorical typifications of academic and disciplinary discourse but as unique social actions of curricular play and gendered uptake.

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In this paper, we are interested in the decision making and use of an invented questioner by a journalist during a live televised political debate in Switzerland. By adopting a combined methodological perspective: between an ethnographic approach to journalism augmented with Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA), we consider in detail the preparation for the debate by the journalists behind the scenes as they raise and negotiate journalist ethics in relation to inventing an audience member to ask a question during the debate. Our analysis highlights how and why an “ideal” intervention (all the debaters agree the relevance of the question) is balanced against the journalism apparent ethics in using fictitious identities in the name of public interest.

We propose the concept of 'impromptu crowd science' to analyze the Bechdel-Wallace movement. We argue that the practice of using this test to evaluate movies generates a form of digitally distributed knowledge that reveals a challenging conceptual impasse. The current organization of the movement, mainly through blog and newspaper articles, quantitative analyses and wiki syntheses, does not encourage the formulation of theoretically innovative answers, remaining captive in a rhetorical style of balancing pros-and-cons. We propose that hybridizations between such impromptu crowd science and academic inquiries could stimulate crowd theorizing, and we extend this challenge as an invitation for HCI researchers.

In the following discourse analysis, I crisscross the realms of text and talk to follow the microformation of legal discourse. How, I ask, does a barrister put together the case for a Crown Court hearing? This representational project, I argue, involves assorted artefacts (marks, modules, maps, or lists) that are consulted as resources on succeeding stages. The various sites of the microformation are the brief, the barrister's note book, and some confidential and staged speech events. The offered trans-sequential analysis of legal discourse puts into perspective preparation and performance, file work and speech production, procedural history, and the field of presence. I explore, above all, the unknown region in between judicial talk and textuality. In this way, in the article, I account for the complexity, contingency, and craft of criminal defense.

The purpose of this study is to examine the way in which the news media frames female politicians in 2018. Prior research suggests the gender gap in American politics is likely due to a lack of political ambition in women, stemming from early childhood. Specifically, this analysis studies the way in which NPR, CNN and FOX News frame female politicians. How female  politicians are portrayed by the media could be a dissuading factor that encourages young women to lose interest in participating within the political sector.

In this paper, we argue that emotion in English classrooms is a mediated action
mobilized through discursive and material practices that transform texts and
signs. We first provide an overview of the current state of English as a secondary
school subject in the United States to provide a context for our work on
emotion within a critical literacy framework. Next, we theorize emotion as mediated
action rather than as an internal psycho-physiological state. Finally, we
offer an example of how emotion was mobilized in a racially and ethnically
diverse classroom that focused on documentary film analysis and production in
ways that constrained and enabled particular ideologies, identities, and opportunities
for learners. We argue that personal growth models of English focus on
the right and tasteful kind of affect (or feeling) and mask the ideological roots
of language which emotion – when we cease to police it – has the potential to
illuminate.

This study explores mediated forms of creativity and multi-platform affordances used by Chinese social media users and producers in a ‘one-star’ rating campaign aimed at DingTalk, an online teaching platform. In February 2020, in response to delays to resuming in-person instruction due to the COVID 19 pandemic, DingTalk launched a new feature called ‘Zaixianxuexi’ (online learning) which was then used across the country. However, users became increasingly critical of the platform and mounted a ‘one-star’ campaign through the Apple’s App Store rating system to try to have the platform removed. In response, the produc- ers of DingTalk released a short-animated video and promotion campaign through Weibo and Bilibili, rather than the DingTalk platform. The video literally begged users to give it more stars. Adopting a social semiotic multimodal analytical approach, we examine the mediated interaction between users and the producers of DingTalk across three Chinese social media platforms. In particular, we examine the medi- ated forms of creativity and technological affordances across multiple social media platforms during the three stages of the event. The analysis focuses on the creative strategies adopted by both users and the producers of DingTalk as they engaged with each other across platforms. The study highlights Chinese social media as rich spaces where technological and cultural resources are creatively co-ordinated across platforms. In situating modality within a cross-media environment, the research underscores the creativ- ity that characterises Chinese social media within an interconnected multi-platform social media ecology.

This paper applies the ‘propaganda model’ of media operations
developed by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky
in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the
Mass Media to the Sri Lankan Media’s discourse construction.
Herman and Chomsky’s Model claims that elite media
interconnect with other institutional sectors in ownership,
management and social circles. This Model is applied to a
discourse analysis of the selected editorials of the Sri Lankan
English newspapers on the ethnic conflict resolution under
international intervention during the period of Ceasefire
Agreement (2002- 2006) between the Government of Sri
Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. It traces
an ethnonationalist ideological significance in their editorial
construction projecting binary positions in the knowledge
construction for governance and reconciliation.

Taking off from the Media Talk approach, this paper examines the communicative work of a Swedish sports webcast football show, Superlive, as an emerging form of web-based media format called Web-TV. This analysis is situated in a context in which broadcasting is going through fundamental changes, and broadcasters are rethinking their content in order to face the challenges arriving with recent decades' technological developments, and especially the fact that television is no longer restricted to being broadcast but can be distributed through the web and be received on PCs, tablets and mobile phones. In this 'post-broadcasting era' producers are searching for new ways of reaching audiences through creating new forms of audience address. Superlive is a good example of these changes and how broadcasters now explore the possibilities of producing television exclusively for the Web. The analysis shows that what is taking place in Superlive is clearly in contrast to the performances one could expect in the conventional broadcast. Through the participants' favoring of an interactional style characterized by informality and spontaneity, this show situates itself as backstage to the conventional forms of airings. As a result, this discursive space implies an interactional orientation to " co-presence " with the audience.

Understanding of another person predominantly informed by observation is more complete and dynamic than understanding available to an audience for whom they are curating their self- presentation. Interpersonal encounters conducted via digital media platforms lack the physical proximity that lets us observe other persons’ accidental self-disclosure in real-life encounters, as distinct from being the audience of their explicit self-disclosure. However, in online interpersonal interactions we can still place others in the role of observer by allowing them to watch our interactions with external texts, without focusing on those others as audience or on the text as demonstratively referential to oneself.

Resumo A inclusão da fonte visual (fotografia e vídeo) no jornalismo digital está ganhando importância na área da multimídia. Os recursos principais da imprensa digital são a multimídia, o hipertexto e a interatividade. A multimídia está num processo inicial de evolução. A missão desta pesquisa é observar empiricamente o uso dos recursos visuais pela imprensa digital pure player. Estes meios de comunicação tentam aproveitar as novas possibilidades multimídia na elaboração e apresentação dos conteúdos. Analisámos empiricamente a inclusão de vídeo e de fotografia na estrutura multimídia (texto, fotografia, vídeo, áudio, infografismo e programas de animação) em quatro jornais digitais (Libertad Digital e El Plural, em espanhol, e Vilaweb e e-Notícies, em catalão) analisados por gêneros jornalísticos.

Abstract: Through a historical case study of the mental health community website HealthyPlace.com, the author applies social semiotics and critical discourse analysis to interrogate the visual discourse surrounding mental health online. Web design transformations over the course of a decade demonstrate how visual imagery conveys a shift from a biomedical discourse focused on illness to a social-therapeutic discourse centered on health and wellness. Ultimately, the author argues that the utilization of faces in stock photography, stylized images, and social media platforms on HealthyPlace reflects a growing trend in virtual visual synthetic personalization on the internet to market mental health disorders as a concern for the everyday person while selling the promise of wellness through online participation. This article explores the visual language of mental health and wellness online to expanding on research in the field of visual communication, health communication, and new media studies.

Power and meaning making in an EAP classroom: Engaging with the everyday, Christian W. Chun. Multilingual Matters, Bristol, Buffalo, Toronto (2015). 219 pp. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-78309-293-2. Particular kinds of "utopian" pedagogical frames of thought and action are nowadays designed and proposed as modes of grassroots resistance to the dominant workings of the neoliberal, globalised order (Cot e, . The premise behind radicalising teaching and learning, in formal or informal educational settings, is determined by the socially as well as politically transformative capacities of "pedagogical interventions aimed at subverting dominant forms of meaning in order to generate both a renewed sense of agency and a critical subversion of dominant power itself. In this way, agency becomes the site through which [… ] power is not transcended but rather reworked, replayed and restaged in productive ways" (Giroux, 2007, p. 28). Cultivating and enabling a transformed, productive sense of agency, activated and embodied by EAP "global" learners and their instructors, is Christian Chun's own radical, "utopian" project in his book, Power and meaning making in an EAP classroom: Engaging with the everyday (abbreviated as Power and meaning making), published this year by Multilingual Matters.