“Weird Is Normal”: A Womanist Discourse Analysis of Black Girl Nerds’ Community Building

Beyond the bow: a digital solution for the queer community

10.32920/ryerson.14646822 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Katarina A. Zlatanovic

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Community Building ◽

Real Life ◽

Virtual Community ◽

Self Organization ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Queer Spaces

Beyond the Bow is an app for the LGBTQ+ community which will allow users to find queer events in their areas, get involved, circulate information, and help foster and build physical queer spaces in the GTA. Connection of strangers and self-organization of the queer community is what allows for the growth of queer spaces in society and sustains the physical queer geography of cities. Development of this app will cultivate and expand public discourse and support member activity in our community, which is necessary to ensure the prosperity and maintenance of our public. This digital solution is informed by research conducted through participant observation, autoethnography, and discourse analysis. The work is grounded in queer theory. Beyond the Bow will allow for communication in a new, modernized way within the LGBTQ+ community, and help reshape our culture by creating and maintaining real-life connections and queer geography through mediated communication and virtual community-building tools. The overall goal of Beyond the Bow is to offer users an accessible virtual place, that will work as a gateway into our physical queer spaces by providing resources and information surrounding on-going activities and initiatives, thus enhancing member participation and promoting the success of our community.

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Lost in Self-Identification?

Politikon IAPSS Journal of Political Science ◽

10.22151/politikon.27.5 ◽

1969 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 103-124

Author(s):

Justinas Lingevicius

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Identity Construction ◽

Community Building ◽

Theoretical Background ◽

Global Politics ◽

Security Policies ◽

Western Values

The main purpose of the research is to analyze how NATO’s identity is constructed through the discourses from three NATO Summits – Lisbon, Chicago and Wales. The research is based on post-structuralistic theoretical background which emphasizes the role of identity in the context of security policies. To study identity means to analyze discourse. Therefore, the research is based on discourse analysis searching for the meanings relevant to identity construction. The main representations of NATO’s identity discussed include the role of Western values, partnership, threats and challenges, the role in global politics and community building. The research has revealed that an existence of NATO’s self-identification relies on complexity and multidimensionality. One of the main reasons affecting the interaction among different aspects is related with fluster between modern and postmodern security logics. Thus, issues in international area and more or less real threats affect how these representations interact and dominate against each other.

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Beyond the bow: a digital solution for the queer community

10.32920/ryerson.14646822.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Katarina A. Zlatanovic

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Community Building ◽

Real Life ◽

Virtual Community ◽

Self Organization ◽

Mediated Communication ◽

Queer Spaces

Beyond the Bow is an app for the LGBTQ+ community which will allow users to find queer events in their areas, get involved, circulate information, and help foster and build physical queer spaces in the GTA. Connection of strangers and self-organization of the queer community is what allows for the growth of queer spaces in society and sustains the physical queer geography of cities. Development of this app will cultivate and expand public discourse and support member activity in our community, which is necessary to ensure the prosperity and maintenance of our public. This digital solution is informed by research conducted through participant observation, autoethnography, and discourse analysis. The work is grounded in queer theory. Beyond the Bow will allow for communication in a new, modernized way within the LGBTQ+ community, and help reshape our culture by creating and maintaining real-life connections and queer geography through mediated communication and virtual community-building tools. The overall goal of Beyond the Bow is to offer users an accessible virtual place, that will work as a gateway into our physical queer spaces by providing resources and information surrounding on-going activities and initiatives, thus enhancing member participation and promoting the success of our community.

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Who Counts as Trans? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Trans Tumblr Posts

Journal of Communication Inquiry ◽

10.1177/01968599211040835 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 019685992110408

Author(s):

Kai Jacobsen ◽

Aaron Devor ◽

Edwin Hodge

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Identity Formation ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Community Building ◽

Knowledge Exchange ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Positive Identity ◽

Critical Insight ◽

Trans Youth ◽

Insight Into

Internet and social media sites have long served as a rich form of community-building and knowledge exchange within transgender communities. In particular, Tumblr has become a popular site among trans youth in recent years. Paralleling changes in medical and mainstream societal understandings of what it means to be transgender, trans Tumblr users have engaged in dialogue and debate about the definitions and limits of trans identity. While research has established the potential for positive identity-formation among LGBTQ+ youth on Tumblr, it is also important to consider how online trans communities may re-inscribe hegemonic narratives in addition to disrupting dominant discourses and ideologies. Using a critical discourse analysis of Tumblr posts, this research analyses how trans Tumblr users define “who counts as trans,” including how users define gender dysphoria and its relationship to trans identities. Our findings provide critical insight into how trans communities define the boundaries of their identities in a struggle for visibility, resources, and respect.

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#GirlsLikeUs: Trans advocacy and community building online

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444817709276 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 1868-1888 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Sarah J Jackson ◽

Moya Bailey ◽

Brooke Foucault Welles

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Network Structure ◽

Women Of Color ◽

Meaning Making ◽

Community Building ◽

Transgender Women ◽

Digital Labor ◽

Trans Women

In this research, we examine the advocacy and community building of transgender women on Twitter through methods of network and discourse analysis and the theory of networked counterpublics. By highlighting the network structure and discursive meaning making of the #GirlsLikeUs network, we argue that the digital labor of trans women, especially trans women of color, represents the vanguard of struggles over self-definition. We find that trans women on Twitter, led by Janet Mock and Laverne Cox, and in response to histories of misrepresentation and ongoing marginalization and violence, deliberately curate an intersectional networked counterpublic that works to legitimize and support trans identities and advocate for trans autonomy in larger publics and counterpublics.

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Plasticity of the neural coding metaphor: An unnoticed rhetoric in scientific discourse

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1900133x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Author(s):

Giulia Frezza ◽

Pierluigi Zoccolotti

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Neural Coding ◽

Scientific Discourse ◽

Convincing Argument ◽

Unified View ◽

Brain Behavior

Abstract The convincing argument that Brette makes for the neural coding metaphor as imposing one view of brain behavior can be further explained through discourse analysis. Instead of a unified view, we argue, the coding metaphor's plasticity, versatility, and robustness throughout time explain its success and conventionalization to the point that its rhetoric became overlooked.

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