Digital media’s discursive strategies against anabolic-androgenic steroids: A corpus-assisted discourse analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-355
Author(s):  
Nattawaj Kijratanakoson

The purposes of this study are twofold. First, it investigates how the digital media discursively react against the use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS). Second, it examines how Thailand is portrayed as a venue for steroid holiday among recreational bodybuilders from the Western countries. Adhering to the principle of theoretical triangulation, the study employs two frameworks including Reisigl and Wodak’s discursive strategies and Van Dijk’s ideological structures. The methodology undertaken is a corpus-assisted discourse analysis. The corpus contains 100 articles published on various websites between the period of 2014 and 2019 with the total number of 107,116 words. Main findings indicate that, regarding the first purpose, the media portray AAS as the ‘outgroup’ by employing various negative lexical items while attempting to dilute any claimed benefits. Concerning the second purpose, Thailand is represented as a venue in which AAS are easily available coupled with corrupt dealers and lax regulations.

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-152
Author(s):  
Johanna Sumiala ◽  
Anu A. Harju

This article investigates how violence associated with religion, here namely Islam, functions as a trigger for public controversy in the Turku stabbings that took place in Finland in 2017. We begin by outlining the Lyotard-Habermas debate on controversy and compound this with current research on the digital public sphere. We combine cartography of controversy with digital media ethnography as methods of collecting data and discourse analysis for analysing the material. We investigate how the controversy triggered by violence is constructed around Islam in the public sphere of Twitter. We identify three discursive strategies connecting violence and Islam in the debates around the Turku stabbings: scapegoating, essentialisation, and racialisation. These respectively illustrate debates regarding blame for terrorism, the nature of Islam, and racialisation of terrorist violence and the Muslim Other. To conclude, we reflect on the ways in which the digital public sphere impacts Habermasian consensus- and Lyotardian dissensus-oriented argumentation.


Articult ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 152-178
Author(s):  
Ksenia K. Eltsova ◽  
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Elena M. Yudina ◽  
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The article examines the emergence of the concept of “poverty” in the mid-2010s in two digital publications considered to be flagships of the “urban” lifestyle media in Russia – “The Afisha.Daily” and “The Village”. The coming into discourses on success and well-being (including the financial one) of a concept that is hardly associated with success and well-being looks like a significant departure from the сanon of lifestyle media, and therefore it is important for a closer study. The analysis is done within theoretical and methodological framework of cultural and media studies; a combination of discourse-analysis’ methods and techniques is addressed for work with digital media texts. The results obtained allowed to determine ways of constructing of “poverty” and to identify discursive strategies by which it is instrumentalized in the media under investigation.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia Steblyna

The image of the EU and Europe in digital mass media of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia is studied in this article using the methodology of discourse analysis. Independent digital mass media Ukrainska Pravda, Nasha Niva, Lenta.ru, Novaya Gazeta are analysed (online publications from years 2005–2019). Three images of Europe in the media are indicated as a result of the research. In Ukraine: a strong reliance on Europe as the idea is observed. The EU and its institutions are stably present in political news, but European politicians are not so popular. In Belarus: Europe doesn’t structure political discussions, however, efforts of the neighbouring EU Member States may be important in the image creation. In Russia: there is not much interest towards Europe, but some approaches to present constant clashes between Russia and the West are evident in digital mass media. The research has confirmed the main hypothesis, which supposed that the mechanisms of creating the image of Europe and the EU in post-Soviet countries’ mass media are different, and the specifics of political discourse, as well as the states’ international politics define the image.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (32) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Solange Aparecida de Souza Monteiro ◽  
Paulo Rennes Marçal Ribeiro

This paper aims to analyze advertisements and discuss child erotization in content and images of children to disseminate both products that can be used by them and the use of children in advertisements for the adult public. The advertisements make use of different technologies and are disseminated both in print and digital media. To carry out this work we rely on some studies on erotization of children's bodies, presenting elements that build the image of the adult child in the media under the bias of erotization and sensuality, their multiple readings and meanings attributed to them. We consider that these controversial discourses are the engine of early sexuality. We use the theoretical assumptions of the French line discourse analysis. Analyzing this corpus is justified because it is necessary to look at children's advertising with responsibility. Anticipating incompatible attitudes with the age group can promote the decline of childhood, because the child ceases to live a very important stage in human development and can trigger future psychological problems and present difficulties of creativity, socialization and disorders not proper to childhood. We also emphasize that the adultization process refers to the child's distance from the infantile world and early insertion into the adult world, of which they incorporate physical and psychological typologies.


2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
ROSITA ANGGRAINI

This study aims to gain deep understanding of ideology in education news in Kompas, Media Indonesia, and Republika newspapers. The method used in this research is qualitative research with content analysis base on the critical discourse analysis theoryby Norman Fairclough that combines three dimensions in communication (text, discourse practice and socio-cultural practice). The data in this research are educational news that is published in Kompas,Media Indonesia, and Republika newspapers in the year 2014. The finding shows that the diversity of ideologies in the text indicate the differences of ideologies of the three newspapers. Ideologies in the discourse practice describe the factors that influence the production of text that are accomodate the issue, routine media and immediacy,selecting and sorting, and influence the view of readers; and affect the consumption of text, i.e read widespread information,integrateprint and digital media, follow the media agenda, read media content as needed, and highly need mass media information.Ideologies in socio-cultural practice describe educational policies in Indonesia.


Author(s):  
Asuman Kaya ◽  
Ozan Bilge Mantar

The content presented in the media, especially with the element of fear, appears to be the most important factor in the formation and spreading of phobias related to diseases. Especially when it comes to epidemics, the influence of the media increases remarkably. Individuals now use digital media as the initial reference source, especially on issues related to their health, and tend to see social media as a reference platform. However, uncontrolled information, conspiracy theories, and information pollution spread through social media make the subject difficult to understand; online shared manipulative news, excessive and unfounded information cause fear and panic. These posts about vaccines affect the perception and attitude towards vaccines. In this study, the comments and social media posts will be analysed using content analysis and discourse analysis methods in order to reveal the effect of social media in vaccine rejection and hesitation.


2020 ◽  
pp. 135050682094534
Author(s):  
Ella Fegitz

The article takes as its subject the trials of Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede for the murder of the English student Meredith Kercher in Perugia on 2 November 2007. Through a Foucauldian discourse analysis, the article explores the discursive strategies that are employed – through the interplay of the media and the legal system – to reinsert the disruptive figure of ‘the woman who kills’ within normative and sanctioned forms of femininity and female sexuality. Furthermore, the analysis shows how the Knox case is central for understanding Italian culture, which is characterised by an anxiety towards, and rejection of, a novel facet of young femininity in post-feminist culture: the phallic subjectivity and sexuality incarnated by Knox.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 03
Author(s):  
Maitê Francine Bohn ◽  
Ernani Cesar de Freitas

Uma interpretação aprofundada de produções discursivas requer um desdobramento teórico que considere não apenas aspectos relacionados aos conteúdos temáticos, mas também as condições de produção do enunciado, o vínculo entre os interlocutores e a influência e a apropriação da cultura que emergem em situações comunicativas. O presente estudo justifica-se, portanto, pela possibilidade de demonstrar a presença de estratégias discursivas que agem sobre o processo de construção de sentido realizado pelo enunciador e coenunciador na emissão e recepção do discurso, especialmente no âmbito midiático, cujas intervenções influem culturalmente na vida em sociedade. Assim, o estudo dos conceitos cenografia e ethos discursivo torna-se relevante, pois ambos estão circunscritos na cena enunciativa, atuando sobre o processo de construção de sentido realizado pelos interlocutores. Mas de que modo o ethos e a cenografia articulam-se nessa construção? A partir desse questionamento, busca-se analisar a cenografia e o ethos discursivo presentes na construção semântica que se manifesta no comercial “Acredite na Beleza: A Linda Ex”, promovido pela empresa O Boticário, articulando-os às formações discursivas, culturais e identitárias que nele emergem. A pesquisa deu-se de forma exploratória e bibliográfica, sendo este trabalho fundamentado nos estudos sobre linguagem e interação verbal (BAKHTIN, 1999), na construção identitária e cultural (HALL, 2001) e na Análise do Discurso (MAINGUENEAU, 2002). Os resultados da análise realizada revelam a utilização de estratégias discursivas pelo enunciador para condicionar e conduzir a produção de sentido a ser construída pelo seu coenunciador, tendo em vista sua finalidade comunicativa.Palavras-chave: Discurso. Anúncio publicitário. Cenografia. Ethos. Cultura.ABSTRACTA deep interpretation of discursive productions requires a theoretical unfolding that considers not only aspects related to topics, but also the conditions of production of the utterance, the link between the interlocutors and the cultural influence and appropriation which emerge in communicative situations. Therefore, this study is justified by the possibility of demonstrating the presence of discursive strategies that act on the process of meaning construction, realized by the enunciator and coenunciator in the emission and reception of the discourse, especially in the media sphere, whose interventions culturally influence in social life. Thus, the scenography and discursive ethos study becomes relevant, since both concepts are circumscribed in the enunciative scene. They act on the process of meaning construction realized by the interlocutors. But how do they relate in this construction? From this question, this study analyzes the scenography and the discursive ethos present in the semantic construction manifested in the commercial “Acredite na Beleza: A Linda Ex”, by O Boticário brand, articulating both concepts to the discursive, cultural and identity formations which emerge in it. The research was carried out in an exploratory and bibliographical way. This work was based on language and verbal interaction studies (BAKHTIN, 1999), on the identity and cultural construction (HALL, 2001) and on Discourse Analysis (MAINGUENEAU, 2002). The results of the analysis show the use of discursive strategies by the enunciator to condition and to lead the production of meaning to be built by its coenunciator, in view of its communicative purpose.Keywords: Speech. Advertisement. Scenography. Ethos. Culture.


Author(s):  
Nour Shreim

 The paper employs an interpretative discourse analysis, to investigate the cultural ideas evoked linguistically throughout the coverage of the Gaza War of 2008-09 (Operation Cast Lead). It aims to provide a historical context to better understanding Operation Protective Edge. To allow for a comparative dimension, the paper develops two ‘frames’ of analysis that systematically look at two recurring themes and scrutinise their discursive strategies and functions in the construction of meaning and ideology. These include Provocation, which examines questions of responsibility and culpability; and Proportionality, which embraces matters of legitimacy and authority in relation to the humanitarian aspect of the war. The findings indicate that the actions of a protagonist may be deemed legitimate with regard to provocation, but illegitimate with regard to their proportionality. The peculiar circumstances of the war pushed the media in the direction of greater separation from the predominant ideologies ensued by the Israeli Army. It suggests that BBC World Service lack a coherent discursive strategy at the level of the lexical in their reporting of Gaza.  


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