Place identity construction in Greek neomigrants’ social media discourse

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariza Georgalou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Media Discourses

Abstract The phenomenon of brain drain migration from Greece, also known as Greek neomigration, has acquired an astoundingly massive character due to the ongoing economic crisis in the country. Considering that a migrant’s identity is defined by a physical move from one place to another, this paper aims at exploring the discourse practices of place-making by Greek neomigrants, focusing on the role of social media in this endeavour. Drawing on discourse analysis (Myers 2010; Aguirre and Graham Davies 2015), identity construction theories (Blommaert 2005; Benwell and Stokoe 2006), environmental psychology (Proshansky, Fabian and Kaminoff 1983) and discourse-centred online ethnography (Androutsopoulos 2008), this study presents and discusses empirical data from a Greek neomigrant settled in the UK, who writes about his migration experience on his blog as well as on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. The analysis demonstrates that the Greek neomigrant place identity construction can be realized through a complex of linguistic and discourse strategies, including comparison and evaluation, construction of in-groups and out-groups, language and script alternations, entextualisation of other voices, and visual connotations. It is shown that, for migrants, social media constitute significant outlets for place-making, constructing place identity and asserting (or eschewing) belonging. In so doing, it also brings to the surface crucial social, cultural and psychological aspects of the current Greek neomigration phenomenon and confirms the potential of social media discourses to heighten awareness of neomigrants’ dis/integrating processes, placing discourse analysis at the service of global mobility phenomena.

scholarly journals New Greek migrant (dis)identifications in social media: Evidence from a discourse-centred online ethnographic study

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariza Georgalou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Discourse Studies ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Identification Processes ◽  
Migration Experiences ◽  
Greek Migrants

AbstractSince the eruption of the Greek crisis in 2010, thousands of highly educated and skilled Greeks have chosen or have been forced to migrate abroad in pursuit of better career prospects and living standards. This recent migratory wave has been termed ‘new’ Greek migration (Panagiotopoulou et al., 2019). Considering the transformative impact of social media on the lives and experiences of migrants as well as the pivotal role of social media in (dis)identification and identity construction processes, this paper aims at exploring the ways in which new Greek migrants construct their identities in their social media discourse. Based on a synergy between the constructionist approach to identity, discourse studies, and online ethnography, the paper presents and discusses empirical data (social media content and interviews) from five selected new Greek migrants settled in the UK and Germany, who write about and capture their migration experiences on their blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts. As shown in the analysis, new Greek migrant identities are hybrid and multifaceted, constructed and negotiated through a gamut of discursive means, including stance-taking, intertextuality, entextualization, and coupling. Having the migrants’ own voice and perspective at the heart of the analysis brings to the forefront significant socio-cultural dimensions of new Greek migration, often downplayed in economic and political analyses of the phenomenon. In this fashion, the potential of social media to heighten awareness of new Greek migrants’ (dis)identification processes is verified.

scholarly journals Identitas digital: Konstruksi identitas pada pameran karya seni Biennale Jawa Timur 8

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Jokhanan Kristiyono ◽  
Rachmah Ida
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Data Archives ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Community Movement

Biennale merupakan pameran dan diskusi karya seni yang rutin diadakan setiap dua tahun. Tahun 2019 merupakan kegiatan Biennale Jawa Timur (Jatim) ke-8 dengan tema “GAS TOK! Lebur Sakjeroning Jawa Timur” melibatkan 500 seniman dan 40 kurator, terdiri 65 kegiatan yang tersebar di 16 kota dan kabupaten di Jawa Timur. Berbeda dengan kegiatan Biennale Jatim sebelumnya, tahun ini lokasi pameran tersebar di berbagai daerah Jawa Timur. Seluruh arsip data dan dokumentasi rangkaian Biennale Jatim 8 dikumpulkan dan dipublikasikan melalui akun Instagram @jatimbiennale8 sebagai bentuk identitas gerakan komunitas Biennale Jawa Timur. Gelaran Biennale Jatim 8 merupakan sebuah perayaan dan imajinasi bersama yang bersifat inklusif. Penelitian ini mengangkat permasalahan tentang konstruksi identitas komunitas Biennale Jatim.  Metode analisa wacana digital dalam penelitian ini menganalisa kontruksi identitas yang diciptakan oleh Biennale Jatim 8 melalui media komunikasi digital media sosial Instagram. Akun Instagram @jatimbienale8 dan @biennalejatim menjadi obyek penelitan analisa wacana kontruksi identitas, dan praktik seni yang terjadi pada Biennale Jatim. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan sebuah wacana perubahan dan perlawanan terhadap kegiatan Biennale Jatim sebelumnnya. Perubahan ditunjukkan dari segi penyelanggara, pendanaan, format acara, lokasi berlangsungnya kegiatan, dan kerja kuratorial. Biennale Jatim 8 mendobrak dan melawan stigma tersebut. Diskursus kontruksi identitas baru tersebut ditunjukkan dengan jelas dan tegas pada proses produksi karya seni, pameran Biennale hingga pasca pameran melalui media sosial Instagram @biennalejatim8 yaitu identitas digital Biennale Jatim.     Biennale, an art event (visual) both exhibition and discussion of artworks, comes on regularly every two years. 2019 is the 8th East Java (Jatim) Biennale with the theme “GAS TOK! Lebur Sakjeroning Jawa Timur” involves 500 artists and 40 curators, consisting of 65 activities spread across 16 cities and regencies in East Java. Unlike the previous East Java Biennale, the exhibition locations are spreading across various regions of East Java. All data archives and documentation of the East Java 8 Biennale series are collected and published through the @jatimbiennale8 Instagram account as a form of identity for the East Java Biennale community movement. The 8th East Java Biennale is a celebration and shared inclusive imagination. This research raises the issue of the identity construction of the East Java Biennale community. The digital discourse analysis method in this study analyzes the identity construction created by the East Java 8th Biennale through the digital communication media of Instagram social media. Instagram accounts @jatimbienale8 and @biennalejatim became the object of research on the discourse analysis of identity construction and art practices at the East Java Biennale. The results of this study indicate a discourse of change and resistance to the previous East Java Biennale activities. The changes show organization, funding, event format, location of activities, and curatorial work. The 8th East Java Biennale breaks and fights the stigma. The discourse on constructing a new identity is clearly and unequivocally demonstrated in the art production process, the Biennale exhibition, and post-exhibition through social media Instagram @biennalejatim8, the digital identity of the East Java Biennale.

Persian Nationalism, Identity and Anti-Arab Sentiments in Iranian Facebook Discourses: Critical Discourse Analysis and Social Media Communication

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 755-780 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Arabian Gulf ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Social Media Communication

This study adopts a Critical Discourse Analytical approach to investigate how a form of Iranian national(ist) identity is (re)constructed and (re)presented on a popular Facebook Page called Persian Gulf.It focuses on linguistic practices of the Iranian side of the debate over the name of this body of water. After briefly discussing some of the challenges of applying CDA to a participatory web platform e.g. Facebook, This paper explores the characteristics of the Persian identity discourse in the way that it is utilised to legitimize the name Persian Gulf vs. the claim to the name Arabian Gulf. The paper concludes that the emergent Persian national/ist identity discourse is strongly preoccupied with opposing a perceived cultural invasion of the Arabic Other in its emphatic defence of the name Persian Gulf but in the meantime it aspires to distinguish itself from the officially propagated Islamic identity. It is also shown that aspects pertaining to powerfulness, defiance and conflict are the main thrusts of the discursive representation of this Self-identity. Key words: Critical Discourse Analysis; Social Media discourses analysis; Facebook; National identity; Nationalism; Iran; Persian Gulf; Arab identity; the Middle East.

scholarly journals Inviting the Infinifat Voice to the Fatshion Conversation: An Exploration into Infinifat Identity Construction, Performance and Activism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calla Evans
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Stigma And Discrimination ◽  
Popular Texts

This thesis explores how self-identified “infinifat” people, defined as those larger than a US woman’s dress size 32, access commercially available fashion and how their lack of access to clothing shapes the performance of their fat identity. Through semi-structured interviews with infinifat subjects and a secondary discourse analysis of “superfat” narratives in popular texts, this research finds that a lack of clothing options reinforces the stigma and discrimination experienced by those at the largest end of the fat spectrum. Particularly, the lack of clothing available to superfat and infinifat people restricts access to social spaces and economic opportunities. While this research draws attention to ways in which my infinifat participants are “hacking” fashion to suit their needs and using social media to advocate for inclusion, the fashion industry’s unwillingness to create clothing options for superfat and infinifat people, supports the perception that being really fat is really bad.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 on Young People’s Mental Health in the UK: Key Insights from Social Media Using Online Ethnography

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 352
Author(s):  
Rachel Winter ◽  
Anna Lavis
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Young People ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
School Closures ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

There is increasing evidence of the psychological impact of COVID-19 on various population groups, with concern particularly focused on young people’s mental health. However, few papers have engaged with the views of young people themselves. We present findings from a study into young people’s discussions on social media about the impact of COVID-19 on their mental health. Real-time, multi-platform online ethnography was used to collect social media posts by young people in the United Kingdom (UK), March 2020–March 2021, 1033 original posts and 13,860 associated comments were analysed thematically. Mental health difficulties that were described as arising from, or exacerbated by, school closures, lost opportunities or fraught family environments included depression, anxiety and suicidality. Yet, some also described improvements to their mental health, away from prior stressors, such as school. Young people also recounted anxiety at the ramifications of the virus on others. The complexities of the psychological impact of COVID-19 on young people, and how this impact is situated in their pre-existing social worlds, need recognising. Forging appropriate support necessitates looking beyond an individualised conceptualisation of young people’s mental health that sets this apart from broader societal concerns. Instead, both research and practice need to take a systemic approach, recognising young people’s societal belonging and social contexts.

scholarly journals Inviting the Infinifat Voice to the Fatshion Conversation: An Exploration into Infinifat Identity Construction, Performance and Activism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calla Evans
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Stigma And Discrimination ◽  
Popular Texts

This thesis explores how self-identified “infinifat” people, defined as those larger than a US woman’s dress size 32, access commercially available fashion and how their lack of access to clothing shapes the performance of their fat identity. Through semi-structured interviews with infinifat subjects and a secondary discourse analysis of “superfat” narratives in popular texts, this research finds that a lack of clothing options reinforces the stigma and discrimination experienced by those at the largest end of the fat spectrum. Particularly, the lack of clothing available to superfat and infinifat people restricts access to social spaces and economic opportunities. While this research draws attention to ways in which my infinifat participants are “hacking” fashion to suit their needs and using social media to advocate for inclusion, the fashion industry’s unwillingness to create clothing options for superfat and infinifat people, supports the perception that being really fat is really bad.

scholarly journals Discourse of Gender Asymmetry in Social Media: methodology of research

Communicology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
A. M. Oleshkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Language Play ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Gender Asymmetry

The paper highlights the problem of gender stereotypes and gender stratification and provides the description of constructionism and discourse analysis as the methodological foundations of gender studies. Gender is viewed as both a social construct and discursive practice. The author proposes a specific methodology for discourse analysis that takes into account the specifics of social media. The methods of research include analysis of linguistic data, processed through the lens of constructionist analysis, discourse and content analysis. The author grounds the study on M. Foucault’s approach that influenced discursive and constructionist studies. The features of the articulation of the topic are shown based on materials of the social network VKontakte. The author reveals the discursive techniques, with the help of which indicates the position and role of the subject. In social networks, unlike other media discourses, the problem of gender relations is expressed exaggeratedly. With the traditional spectrum of plots for stereotyping, the network newspeak is prone to use language play and genre fusion. Hence, the polar features of gender discourse in the network space should be noted: the coexistence of aggressive orthodox patriarchal judgments with sarcastic rethinking of gender roles and the manifestation of egalitarianism in the interpretation of masculinity and femininity. Gender discourse is represented as an element of ideological discourse that the author designates as modern newspeak, which is characterized by the ability to politicize any aspect of culture and strive for domination.

Education and Media Discourses

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Mockler
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Assisted Analysis ◽  
The Relationship

Over the past 30 years, a growing field of scholarship has explored the relationship between education and the media. Scholars within this field have explored representations of education, schooling, teachers’ work and students in print and other news media, utilizing approaches that include critical discourse analysis, news framing analysis and, more recently, corpus-assisted discourse analysis. The relationship between these representations, public understandings of education and education policy has also been explored in the research literature, with a focus on the complex interplay between media discourses and public policy around education. The emergence of social media and the engagement of both educators and members of the general public on social media around issues related to education has seen this relationship shift in the first two decades of the 21st century. This, along with the growth of computer-assisted research approaches (including corpus-assisted analysis and network analysis, for example) has brought new theoretical and methodological possibilities to bear on the field.

Food Network’s food-career frenzy? An examination of students’ motivations to attend culinary school

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Whibbs ◽  
Mark Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Career Aspirations ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Food Network ◽  
Intention To Persist ◽  
Culinary School ◽  
Media Discourses

This research presents the findings of a year long study, undertaken between 2016 and 2017, seeking to understand the degree to which students are influenced to attend culinary school by food medias, social media, and the Food Network. The notion that food medias draw the majority of new cooks to the industry is often present in popular media discourses, although no data exists seeking to understand this relationship. This study reveals that food medias play a secondary or tertiary role in influencing students to register at culinary school, while also showing previously unknown patterns related to culinary students’ intention to persist with culinary careers. Nearly 40 percent of this sample do not intend to remain cooking professionally for greater than five years, and about 30 percent are “keeping other doors open” upon entry into culinary school. Although food celebrity certainly plays a role in awareness about culinary careers, intrinsic career aspirations are the most frequently reported motivation.

Via Facebook to Jerusalem

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-26
Author(s):  
Hanne Roislien
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Online Ethnography ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Generic Term ◽  
Contemporary Religion ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Research Tools

Social media contain a significant potential as a research tool in the scholarly study of contemporary religion. This article, therefore, does not feed into the thematic field of “online ethnography” further, but is instead an attempt to utilize the online sphere as constructive research tools to gather more thorough ethnographic data in the field. Approaching Facebook as a toolbox rather than an object, this article is an attempt to demystify social media in general and Facebook in particular. Utilizing these media forms as efficient tools throughout the research process, the article looks at primarily two phases of the process, pre fieldwork and post-fieldwork, and explores the various components of Facebook in combination with these two phases. It is argued that Facebook represents a “Hub Keeper,” which is a generic term referring to three primary methodological functions: it is a Gate-Keeper that enables identification and recruitment of interviewees; it is a hub containing a variety of data; and, it is a Gateway for validation of data.

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