Language, Discrimination and Employability: Employers’ Othering and Racist Representations of Domestic Migrant Workers on Social Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Hans J. Ladegaard
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Language Discrimination ◽  
The Many ◽  
Derogatory Language

Discursive othering deals with the many ways in which language is used to express prejudice against minorities, and it outlines the processes and conditions that promote group-based inequality and marginalization. This article focuses on online othering, and it analyzes a corpus of 615 comments posted by Hong Kong employers of domestic migrant workers (DMWs) on social media. First, a quantitative analysis of the corpus outlines the content categories found in the posts, and second, a discourse analysis of representative excerpts illustrates the claims made about DMWs. Employers engage in othering of their helpers, and the analysis shows how demeaning racist comments function to publicly shame them and warn others not to employ them. The article uses Language and Social Psychology frameworks to analyze the posts, and it discusses the functions of using racist derogatory language. The paper concludes by discussing how research may be used to address pressing social issues.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PARTISIPASI MASYARAKAT DALAM MEMINIMALISIR DAMPAK PENGGUNAAN MEDIA SOSIAL PADA ANAK MELALUI OMAH BOCAH DI KOANG KECAMATAN JETIS KABUPATEN BANTUL YOGYAKARTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ade Sofiana ◽  
Sitti Nur Djannah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

Introduction: Social problems that have occurred have been successfully adopted by the development media that can be used as victims or perpetrators of crime through social media. The many negative impacts of using social media to make children, build the Omah Bocah community in the Koang area of Jetis District, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta with the aim of minimizing the use of social media. The importance of integrating the community in the context of social issues so that it can be used to analyze the community in minimizing the use of social media use in children through Omah Bocah in Koang, Jetis District, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta. Method: qualitative research with observational descriptive design. Using interview and observation methods. The research subjects consisted of eleven people consisting of one of the founders of Omah Bocah, two Omah Bocah administrators, three children of Omah Bocah users, two community leaders and three communities. Data collection tools are interview guides, observation guides, handpones and stationery. Results: Omah Bocah is a community that aims to minimize the impact of using social media. The history and strategy of the establishment of Omah Bocah with the role of community participation has included determining strategic locations and easy access. socialization of the delivery of vision and mission. Community empowerment and community self-reliance according to ability. Participation is seen from participation in planning, implementation, monitoring evaluation and utilization has been running well to include all levels of society with their respective roles. Obstacles from the implementation of Omah Bocah in the form of awareness from their children and also the ability to procure materials by the Omah Bocah management.

scholarly journals Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong: Smartphone culture and activism

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Irfan Wahyudi ◽  
Panizza Allmark
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Long Working Hours ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cultural Pattern ◽  
Social Media Platforms

This article focuses on contemporary smartphone culture and activism performed by female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. There are around 330.000 migrant workers in Hong Kong, and wherein 150.000 originated from Indonesia. Most of the Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong work in the domestic sectors: housemaid, babysitter, and career. They are obliged to live with their employer and start working from five mornings until late at night for six days a week. The smartphone is their primary medium in keeping a connection with friends and families back home and reduces social isolation. Interestingly, Indonesian migrant workers also use smartphones for activism to support migrant workers’ rights issues. Despite the isolation issues and the social limitations experienced by the Indonesian migrant workers’, this article aims to explore the following questions: how is smartphone culture developed in Indonesian migrant workers’ communication activities in Hong Kong? How is the smartphone, in particular, used as the medium for activism? Using the netnography method, this research explores the smartphone culture and activism performed by Indonesian migrant workers’ in their online routine. Smartphone usage has become an interesting phenomenon where this device has changed the cultural habits and further forms a new cultural pattern. Social media platforms and chat applications on smartphones have facilitated Indonesian migrant workers’ more comprehensive access to information. It is found that social media access is essential for Indonesian migrant workers to ease loneliness and further used as their medium of existence in the virtual world. Furthermore, they also create virtual identities through social media, share experiences and views through online platforms, and organize protests or other forms of activism. Sulistyaningsih’s case is a clear example of how communication access was crucial for Indonesian migrant workers at a time of danger. The diverse forms of communication technology have allowed them to create compelling messages. This activity provides evidence that Indonesian migrant workers still can be creative despite their long working hours.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON MEDIA RELATED TWEETS OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hülya Ünsal Şakiroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
The Media ◽  
Personal Accounts

<p>This study aims to investigate the language and the attitude of two well-known U.S. politicians, U.S. President Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, towards media in their social media messages on Twitter microblogging site. The comparison and analyses are performed using Fairclough’s analytical framework of the socio-cultural approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): text, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice. The data consists of 50 non repetitive recent media related tweets collected from personal accounts of Trump and Sanders. The findings indicate that Trump uses an informal, direct, and provoking communication style to construct and reinforce the concept of a homogeneous people and a homeland threatened by the dangerous and biased other (media) while Sanders having more democratic, liberal language, and focuses on more tangible, important social issues such as environment, education, and health problems as he himself prominences often. Moreover, Trump employs positive self-presentation and negative other presentation to further promote his agenda via social media. Bernie Sanders on the other hand criticize media for a set of different reasons. Although they both criticize the media extensively in their usage of Twitter, discourse analyses indicate that the underlying political motivations are fundamentally different.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0676/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Explaining "-splain" in digital discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
American English ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Digital Discourse ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Sociopolitical Climate

Combining digital discourse analysis and Citizen Sociolinguistics, methodological frames that contend with the effects of evolving digital practices, I present an approach to studying sociolinguistic trends by investigating how social media users talk about what language is doing. This approach is applicable to research on a wide range of linguistic and cultural contexts. The particular focus in this paper, however, is on U.S.-based social issues and linguistic features of American English as they appear in pieces of digital discourse from the micro-blogging platforms Twitter and Tumblr. Situated within the highly fractured sociopolitical climate of the pandemic-afflicted United States, the language under discussion provides a glimpse of some historically relevant sociocultural beliefs and attitudes towards the role of gender and racial identity in sociopolitical discourse. Focusing on uses of -splain, a metapragmatic bound morpheme, the paper demonstrates how social media users assemble lexical, discursive, and other semiotic resources as means for negotiating sociopragmatic appropriateness. The analysis shows how the usage of words like mansplain encompass the sociolinguistic process of enregisterment through practices of linguistic reflexivity, creativity, and regimentation – practices that are essential aspects of interaction and participation in social media. Using these enregistered metapragmatic words problematizes imbalances in users’ sociopragmatic ideologies, namely who can or cannot say what, to whom, and in what manner. I show how creative metapragmatic language is deployed to discuss issues of entitlement and epistemic authority in communicative dynamics. I draw on theoretical frames that reveal how the recontextualization and resemiotization of -splain words and other metapragmatic neologisms are performances of identity. I also show how splain-mediated communication facilitates users in achieving their own discursive intentions to point out language in judgmental and/or lighthearted manners. I assert that attention to metapragmatic neologisms in the perspective of Citizen Sociolinguistics enhances the analytical repertoire of digital discourse analysis.

scholarly journals Analisis wacana kritis pemberdayaan dan permasalahan TKI di Hong Kong dalam Film Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Estin Endah Pratiwi
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Migrant Worker ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Suicide Attempted

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalis berbagai tahap pemberdayaan TKI dan untuk mengetahui permasalahan yang dialami para TKI di Hong Kong berdasarkan faktor penyebabnya serta untuk merencanakan program Pendidikan Luar Sekolah terkait dengan film Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park. Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan analisis wacana kritis. Hasil penelitian ini yaitu, (1) tahap pemberdayaan TKI yang terdapat dalam film Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park adalah tahap penyadaran dan tahap pengkapasitasan. (2) permasalahan TKI yang ditemukan dalam film Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park berdasarkan faktor penyebabnya yaitu: (a) faktor ekonomi yaitu: terlilit hutang piutang, penahanan dokumen, menjadi PSK, mengalami penganiayaan dan pemerasan, (b) faktor budaya yaitu: gaji tidak dibayar, kesulitan berkomunikasi dengan bahasa setempat faktor, sulit memperoleh pekerjaan jika masuk daftar cekal, (c) faktor psikologis yaitu: TKI gagal berangkat, TKI bunuh diri, percobaan bunuh diri, putus hubungan komunikasi dengan keluarga, menjadi lesbian (3) Rencana pengembangan program PLS untuk para TKI berdasarkan hasil analisis content film, yaitu: (a) bekerja sama dengan Disnakertrans dan BNP2TKI mengadakan sosialisasi kapada para TKI pra penempatan, selama penempatan, purna penempatan, (b) bekerjasama dengan BLK TKI untuk menjadikan film Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park sebagai media pembelajaran untuk calon TKI.Kata Kunci: analisis wacana kritis, pemberdayaan, permasalahan TKI A Critical Discourse Analysis of Empowerment and Indonesian Migrant Worker Issue on “Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park” Movie AbstractThis study aims to identify and analyze the various stages of the empowerment of migrant workers, to identify problems experienced by the Indonesian Workers in Hong Kong based on factors, and to define the project plan of Non-Formal Education related to Minggu pagi di Victoria Park movie. This research has been done with a method of qualitative research with a critical discourse analysis (Critical Discourse Analysis) approach, taking subject of “Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park” movie. The research found, (1) Phase empowerment of workers who are in the film Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park are: stage awareness and capacity building stage. (2) problems of migrant workers were found in the Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park by contributing factors, are: (a) economic factors, namely: indebt, documentation hostage, become commercial sex workers, persecution and extortion, (b) cultural factors, such as: unpaid wages, communication skill problem, difficulties in finding jobs when they enter the block list, (c) psychological factors such as TKI failed to embark, be lesbian, TKI suicide, attempted suicide, lost and limited communication with family, (3) proposing the program for non-formal education to migrant workers based on the research are: (a) to have joint cooperation between Disnakertrans (Ministry of Manpower) and BNP2TKI to hold socialization, advocation, and facilitation to the migrants worker before embarkation, during employment, and after employment, (b) to have working collaboration with BLK TKI to promote Minggu Pagi di Victoria Park movie as learning media which can be easily understood by the Indonesian migrant worker (TKI).Keywords: critical discourse analysis, empowerment, Indonesian migrant workers issue

Beyond Intelligence Testing

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 320-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Nicolas ◽  
Zachary Levine
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Intelligence Testing ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Applied Psychology ◽  
Important Research ◽  
Memory Research ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The Many

Though Alfred Binet was a prolific writer, many of his 1893–1903 works are not well known. This is partly due to a lack of English translations of the many important papers and books that he and his collaborators created during this period. Binet’s insights into intelligence testing are widely celebrated, but the centennial of his death provides an occasion to reexamine his other psychological examinations. His studies included many diverse aspects of mental life, including memory research and the science of testimony. Indeed, Binet was a pioneer of psychology and produced important research on cognitive and experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social psychology, and applied psychology. This paper seeks to elucidate these aspects of his work.

Social Psychology and its Interface with Psychosocial Counselling

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 20499-20509
Author(s):  
Hector Chiboola ◽  
Choolwe Chiboola ◽  
Patrick L. Mazila ◽  
Violet W. Kunda
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Problem Situations ◽  
Psychosocial Counselling ◽  
Social Prejudice ◽  
Qualitative Literature

This article was developed based on the qualitative literature research with the intention of exploring the field of social psychology and its interface with psychosocial counselling. Social psychology seeks to understand how each person’s social behaviour is influenced by the culture, situation and environment in which it takes place; whereas psychosocial counselling aims to enhance the client’s psychological and social functioning in the context of his environment and circumstance. Social psychology and psychosocial counselling have both tended to focus more on managing specific human problems and social issues. The long established partnership between these two perspectives has resulted in the development of scientific theory and practical interventions over several decades. This implies that social psychology provides a framework of resources from which psychosocial counselling draws when dealing with the diverse problem situations that affect people in their social lives. The research question was: What elements in social psychology can interface with psychosocial counselling? The focus of the research was on three key elements in social psychology: self-concept, social attitudes and social prejudice. This article illustrates how these elements interface with psychosocial counselling. Therefore, social psychology and psychosocial counselling both have a significant role to play in the wider spectrum of social-welfare and human-relation services offered to needy people at all levels of contact.  

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