Empire and Colonialism Analogies in The Guardian Reader Comments

2021 ◽  
pp. 307-317
Author(s):  
Matthias J. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Reader Comments ◽  
The Guardian

Feminist Killjoys and Women Scorned: An Analysis of News and Commentary on the Sexual Violence Allegations Against Julian Assange

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Harrington
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Flash Point ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
The Guardian

This article examines digital media debate over sexual violence by analyzing news reports and reader comments on the rape allegations against WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. Through analysis of the Guardian and New York Times, the article shows how this case became a flash-point for debate about feminist constructions of sexual violence. News reports amplified Assange’s defense that the allegations stemmed from feminist influence on Swedish law and would not be criminalized in England, provoking feminist and anti-feminist commentary. Thus, this article illuminates the salience of feminist constructions of sexual violence for digital news and points to broader social contestation over the meaning of rape fostered by digital media.

scholarly journals Reader Comments Agentive Power in COVID-19 Digital News Articles: Challenging Parascientific Information?

Publications ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Francisca Suau-Jiménez ◽  
Francisco Ivorra-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
External Information ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Authorial Voice

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an enormous stream of information. Parascientific digital communication has pursued different avenues, from mainstream media news to social networking, at times combined. Likewise, citizens have developed new discourse practices, with readers as active participants who claim authority. Based on a corpus of 500 reader comments from The Guardian, we analyse how readers build their authorial voice on COVID-19 news as well as their agentive power and its implications. Methodologically, we draw upon stance markers, depersonalisation strategies, and heteroglossic markers, from the perspective of discursive interpersonality. Our findings unearth that stance markers are central for readers to build authority and produce content. Depersonalised and heteroglossic markers are also resorted, reinforcing readers’ authority with external information that mirrors expert scientific communication. Conclusions suggest a strong citizen agentive power that can either support news articles, spreading parascientific information, or challenge them, therefore, contributing to produce pseudoscientific messages.

Tolerance: Circles of Inclusion and Exclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasse Thomassen
Keyword(s):  
Representational Space ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
Religious Clothing ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
State Schools ◽  
The Way

This chapter on the concept and practice of tolerance makes use of the legal case Begum together with three other cases from the same period: X v Y, Playfoot and Watkins-Singh. The chapter analyses the debates about the cases in two broadsheets: The Guardian and The Telegraph. The cases all concerned the rights of schoolgirls in state schools to wear particular kinds of religious clothing and symbols: two different versions of the hijab, a Christian purity ring, and a Sikh bangle. Examining the way tolerance and difference and identity are articulated across the debates about the four cases, I show how lines of inclusion and exclusion are articulated, existing side by side and competing within the same representational space of British multiculturalism.

Conceptions of Trust in the Qur'an

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora S. Eggen
Keyword(s):  
Social Trust ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Normative Claim ◽  
Trust Relationship ◽  
Trust Relationships ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Guardian

In the Qur'an we find different concepts of trust situated within different ethical discourses. A rather unambiguous ethico-religious discourse of the trust relationship between the believer and God can be seen embodied in conceptions of tawakkul. God is the absolute wakīl, the guardian, trustee or protector. Consequently He is the only holder of an all-encompassing trusteeship, and the normative claim upon the human being is to trust God unconditionally. There are however other, more polyvalent, conceptions of trust. The main discussion in this article evolves around the conceptions of trust as expressed in the polysemic notion of amāna, involving both trust relationships between God and man and inter-human trust relationships. This concept of trust involves both trusting and being trusted, although the strongest and most explicit normative claim put forward is on being trustworthy in terms of social ethics as well as in ethico-religious discourse. However, ‘trusting’ when it comes to fellow human beings is, as we shall see, framed in the Qur'an in less absolute terms, and conditioned by circumstantial factors; the Qur'anic antithesis to social trust is primarily betrayal, ‘khiyāna’, rather than mistrust.

939-P: Real-World Performance of the Guardian Connect System with Sugar.IQ

Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 939-P
Author(s):  
SIDDHARTH ARUNACHALAM ◽  
YUXIANG ZHONG ◽  
SINU BESSY ABRAHAM ◽  
PRATIK AGRAWAL ◽  
ROBERT VIGERSKY ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
The Guardian

Scene Configurator

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-222
Author(s):  
Piotr Szymczyk ◽  
Magdalena Szymczyk
Keyword(s):  
Light Source ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Moving Objects ◽  
Video System ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Guardian

Abstract In this paper authors describe in details a system dedicated to scene configuration. The user can define different important 2D regions of the scene. There is a possibility to define the following kinds of regions: flour, total covering, down covering, up covering, middle covering, entrance/exit, protected area, prohibited area, allowed direction, prohibited direction, reflections, moving objects, light source, wall and sky. The definition of this regions is very important to further analysis of live stream camera data in the guardian video system.

INTERVIEW WITH PETINA GAPPAH

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Faith Mkwesha
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
First Language ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The University ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
University Of Zimbabwe

This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016).  Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.

"El problema de las mujeres"

Filanderas ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Gerardo Vilches
Keyword(s):  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Sobre Todo

El problema de las mujeres (Anagrama, 2017) es la última obra de Jacky Fleming (Londres, 1955). Esta británica, poco conocida en España, lleva décadas publicando sus viñetas de humor gráfico en medios como The Independent o The Guardian. En este pequeño libro, un breve ensayo en clave satírica, aplica su mirada ácida sobre la historia de los últimos siglos, desde una perspectiva que podría considerarse cercana a la herstory, pero que, sobre todo, busca poner de manifiesto lo absurdo de toda una serie de planteamientos machistas revestidos de una pátina de cientifismo.

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