scholarly journals Online News Media, Religious Identity and Their Influence on Gendered Politics: Observations from Malawi’s 2014 Elections

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-66
Author(s):  
Anthony M. Gunde
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
News Media ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Online News ◽  
Democratic Progressive Party ◽  
Developing Democracies

The rise of the internet has offered the opportunity for the news media to communicate with audiences in many significant ways that may have profound consequences in the shaping of public opinion and transforming lives in the global sphere. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this article examines ways in which online news media could be used to reinforce gender stereotypes by promoting patriarchal religious beliefs and how this may have huge implications on women’s empowerment with regard to political leadership roles in developing democracies. The analysis is drawn from the 2014 Malawi elections, in which a major opposition party used a campaign slogan peppered with sexist religious and cultural connotations to ridicule and vote out of office southern Africa’s first ever female President – Joyce Banda and her People Party (PP). In May 2014, Malawi held national elections and the main contestants were former President Banda representing the PP, Peter Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and Atupele Muluzi of the United Democratic Front (UDF). Mutharika and the DPP won the elections to wrestle away the presidency from Banda and her People’s Party. This article discusses the campaign slogan – Sesa Joyce Sesa – created by the DPP to attack former President Banda in which Malawi’s significant online news media sites played a critical role in the diffusion of the gendered campaign mantra to resonate with the religious identity of majority the electorate. The article reflects on the potential of new media to consolidate deep-rooted religious and cultural beliefs that marginalise women for leadership positions and the effect this may have on bridging gender inequalities, particularly in political representation in developing democracies.

scholarly journals The Representation of Women’s CEO Image in Online Media

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Diah Kristina ◽  
Melsiana Shera Rita Ramadona
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Washington Post ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Representation Of Women

The research focused on the representation of women in the news about the absence of women in Uber’s CEO candidates from the perspective of feminist stylistics by Sara Mills. Five news texts from five different websites published during August 2017 were analyzed; they were Washington Post, Daily Mail, Inverse, Gizmodo, and Fortune. The method used was a qualitative research method with the approach of critical discourse analysis of Sara Mills. By applying three levels of analysis which was analysis at the level of the word, phrase/sentence, and discourse, this research aimed to analyze how women were represented linguistically in the online news of Uber’s CEO candidates and to discover the reason why women were represented in the way they were. The findings reveal that women remain underrepresented in news media. It is proved by the dominance of women as the object in the stories. Moreover, women are represented as ‘glass cliff position’, minority, and a way to recreate the good image in the company. The gender stereotypes, the background story of Uber, the male-dominated industries, and the prevalent condition become the reasons why women represented that way.

Discursive representation of the Article 370 abrogation: A comparative CDA of the headlines of two major Indian online news publications

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492110568
Author(s):  
Arif Hussain Nadaf
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Online News ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
The Times ◽  
Local News Media

The Indian government on 5 August, 2019, unilaterally removed Article 370 of its constitution that provided autonomous status to the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir. In order to pre-empt any backlash, the authorities put the entire region under strict lockdown and imposed a complete communication blackout including suspension of internet, mobile, and landline phone services. The Indian media vociferously covered the issue of higher “national interest” with no counter-narrative from local news media in the region. Using Van Djik’s socio-cognitive model, the study conducted comparative critical discourse analysis of the headlines from two major Indian online news publications; the English daily The Times of India and the Hindi daily Dainik Jagran to identify the discursive strategies adopted by these newspapers after the revocation of the Article 370. The study aimed to understand how Indian newspapers were shaping the discourse when the Indian government imposed communication restrictions and lockdown in the region. Through CDA, the study located the discursive strategies in the headlines and the ideological standpoints they reflected while covering the Article 370 controversy. The CDA found that the headline discourse in both the news publications was characterized by aggressive nationalistic assertion reinforcing domestic legitimacy for the government’s decision. The analysis further showed substantial evidence for the cultural distances between the English and Hindi language news discourse. Unlike English headlines, the Hindi headlines contained explicit linguistic subjectivities and were overtly hyperbolic in recognizing and blending itself with the nationalist assertion and socio-political expression around the abrogation of Article 370.

Victimhood in the Face of Media Ideological Battle: A Critical Discourse Analysis on the British Media's Coverage of Stabbing Incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Cynthia Wang
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
British Society ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Impact

This article intends to reveal the power dimensions and ideological positions embedded in dominant media discourses. Informed by theories of media representation as well as those of colonialism and Orientalism, this article analyses eight articles from two British daily online news media sources, namely, The Guardian and The Telegraph. The methodological framework adopted draws on Fairclough's (1995) conception of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine textual features, and employs Bazzi's contextual analysis model with an emphasis on ideology. These methodologies are utilised in an effort to investigate the British media's representational and discursive strategies concerning a wave of stabbing incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the six-month violence between October 2015 and March 2016. The results indicate that violent actions are framed in a binary fashion, between self and other, and that the discursive strategies employed position Palestinian subjects as unworthy victims or violent initiators, whereas Israelis were represented relatively positively, in order to inscribe the accepted values in British society and foreign policy. This article attempts to contribute to the discussion on the impact of media agencies embedded within a particular societal and political context, and comments upon their ability to foster and disseminate hegemonic ideologies, which in turn reinforce systemic power inequalities in times of conflict.

scholarly journals Discourses on Languages and Identities in Readers' Comments in Ukrainian Online News Media: An Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roman Horbyk
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Mass Scale ◽  
Online News ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Ethnolinguistic Identity ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

This study is a pioneering attempt to apply social and ethnolinguistic identity theories developed by social psychologists Henri Tajfel, Howard Giles, and Patricia Johnson, and Judith Butler’s critical feminist theory of hate speech, to Ukrainian realities. The material comprises nearly 3,000 readers’ comments concerning language issues posted to Ukraine’s leading news website Ukrains'ka pravda (Ukrainian Truth) in 2010-12, and is analyzed through a systematic discourse-historical approach within a critical discourse analysis. Notorious for intolerance, filthy language, and trolling on a mass scale, the comments reflected the language situation in Ukraine from 2010 to 2012, demonstrating linguistic optimism, linguistic alarmism, denial of bilingualism, and historicist, legalist, and laissez-fair discourses. The readers’ comments deny or affirm the authenticity of either the Russian or the Ukrainian language, propose the exclusion or inclusion of the Russophone population in Ukraine, or deny that there are identity differences. From the chosen theoretical perspective, this study testifies to an unequal power status of the language groups, to the cultural hegemony of Russophones and the challenge to this hegemony by Ukrainophones, to mutual othering, and to an abundance of hate speech. Arguably, the use of hate speech assisted in developing and cementing the identities of Ukrainians who connected strongly with either the Ukrainian or the Russian language.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis: The Negative Representation of the French President in France's English Online News

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Anggraeni ◽  
Elvi Citraresmana ◽  
Eko Wahyu Koeshandoyo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Way

There is a scarcity of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) studies on the representation of social actors in news media, thus this study addressed this research gap by analysing the way news represented the French President Emmanuel Macron, regarding his controversial support of Samuel Paty, a history teacher in France who was murdered because he showed a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad in his class. This research aims to see the representation of Emmanuel Macron from the perspective of the French media, The Connexion France, which published their news in English language online to reach world-wide audience.  Four articles of the news were purposively selected for this CDA study, which were published from October 18 until November 1, 2020. The French President’s representation was analysed with the nomination and predication strategies.  Results showed that the Connexion France uses four nomination strategies to refer Emmanuel Macron. The professional anthroponyms refer to Emmanual Macron as “the President”, proper names as “Emmanuel Macron” to be the centre of the discourse, synecdoche as “Emmanuel Macron”, and deixis as “he” to avoid repetition the subject of the text. Two predication strategies were also used, the explicit predicate of how the President “has promised” action against Islamists and presupposition from the way the news linked pictures of boycotted French supermarket products with the President. This research provides a take on fresh news with CDA and can beneficial for the students who learn English language by showing how the media uses language for political figures.

Framing of Papua Under Two Different Medias: Tirto.id and Reuters of United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Almas Rifqi Darmawan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Article ◽  
International Level ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Embedded Value

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a bridge of interpretations through textual context occurred in the news media. Thus, the 2019 Papua’s issues were getting a huge portray in online news and many news coverages in national and international level that had put Papua issues into bias. Media’s framing influences people perception as a reader. Under CDA and the framing of Papua, the news readers are expected to have their own perception through the media’s perspectives or frames. Qualitative method was used to uncover the frames of the online news media of Tirto.id and Reuters of United States. This research explores how Tirto.id and Reuters are framing the Papua issue in their articles by defining the types of frames occurred in both news media within the period. Following the framing categorization which are conflict frame, human interest frame, responsibility frame, and consequences frame and by focusing on the wordings which showing the category thus classified them based on the embedded value behind the words. Thus, distinguish the differences of the frames used between both media. The result of the analysis is that in both media employed the frames. One news could contain more than one frame employed. The conclusion is that one news article may portray many frames and both media may indicate two different perceptions of Papua issue under two different circumstances Tirto.id and Reuters of United States.

scholarly journals Akhbar Khuttah Mishriyyah-Urduniyyah li al-Saitharah alâ Taáddud Jihât al-Qarâr fi Hamas (Tahlil al-Khitab al-Naqdy Teun A. Van Dijk

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
Hanik Mahliatussikah ◽  
Mahbub Humaidi Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Micro Structure ◽  
The Many ◽  
Background Detail ◽  
Form Coherence

This research is about critical discourse analysis using Teun A. Van Dijk's theory specialized in the discussion of the text section. Analyzing the discourse on Egyptian-Jordanian plans to control the large number of Hamas decision-makers, Van Dijk sees that the text consists of several structures/levels, which support each other. He divided it into three levels. First, the overall structure, second, the superstructure, and third, the microstructure. This type of research is qualitative research using the method of documentation and descriptive analysis of the content of the news text. In the documentation process, the researcher obtained the data from the news website alarab.co.uk. This study aims to determine the results of Teun A. Van Dijk's critical discourse analysis on the news text. The object of this study is the online news media in Arabic, alarab.co.uk, while the subject of this research is the discourse of the state of the many faces of the Hamas organization that controls decision-making. This analysis was performed on macro-structure (themes), superstructure (layouts), micro-structure (semantics: background, detail, intent, assumptions), micro-structure (structure: sentence form, coherence, and pronouns), and micro-structure (style: lexicon ), the precise structure (rhetorical: graphic, metaphor, expression) in Arabic discourse.

scholarly journals ‘Model Putin Forever’. A Critical Discourse Analysis on Vladimir Putin’s Portrayal in Czech Online News Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1(28)) ◽  
pp. 44-61
Author(s):  
Zina Stovickova
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
Global Coherence ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Vladimir Putin

This paper examines the Czech online news media representation of Vladimir Putin during three presidential elections (American of 2016, Czech and Russian of 2018). The portrayal of the Russian leader is examined using the methods of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), mainly by the approach formulated by Teun van Dijk. The results showed a negatively biased portrayal of the president, Russian policy and the country itself, which corresponds with the historical-political context of the Czech-Russian relations, and which is in accordance with the Western media discourse. Applying the methods of global coherence revealed that the overarching theme of the coverage is Putin’s efforts to re-establish Russia as the global power and to restore the binary world as it was during the Cold war, while the methods of local coherence disclosed many implications, categorizations and the ubiquitous sarcasm and negativity in most of the texts.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE NEWS OF COVID-19 CORPSE SNATCHING PATIENT IN THE I-NEWS

2022 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Rika Astari ◽  
Abdul Mukhlis ◽  
Muhammad Irfan Faturrahman
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Online News ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Media

The diction used in the news of corpse snatching of COVID-19  varies and has caused the public to panic. This study aims to show the structure of the media language used in The News of Corpse Snatching of COVID-19 patients in Pasuruan and the factors that caused the hundreds of people attempting to take the deceased's body forcefully. The primary data are the news of corpse snathing of COVID-19 patients in Pasuruan, uploaded on YouTube and the online news media i-News, and comments from netizens in the comments column. In addition, informant interviews were conducted to show the factors causing Corpse Snatching. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is used for content analysis by describing three dimensions: text, discursive practice, and social practice. It was concluded that the media language used in the news text of the corpse Snatching in Pasuruan tends to use vocabulary that shows negative rather than positive actions. Moreover, the media emphasizes negative actions more than describing solution actions to become government policy steps. Based on informants and studies of the third dimension, hundreds of people who conducted the Corpse Snatching were caused because people hardly accept COVID-19 protocols since they hold Kejawen Islamic funeral traditions.

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