Buddhism Unbundled

2019 ◽  
pp. 176-208
Author(s):  
Ann Gleig
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

The Buddhist Geeks project is an online Buddhist media platform launched in 2007 by two self-identified millennials who wanted to combine their passion for Buddhism with their “geeky skills.” It quickly gained a wide audience for its pioneering explorations into the convergence of Buddhism, technology, and global culture. Through an analysis of the Buddhist Geeks project and a consideration of its replacement, Meditate.io., this chapter explores the impact of technology and digital culture on American convert Buddhism. It draws on discourse analysis, formal interviews with some of the main players of the Buddhist Geeks project, informal interaction with multiple Buddhist Geeks participants, and participant observation at three annual Buddhist Geeks conferences from 2012 to 2015.

scholarly journals A Book Review: Language and Culture on the Margins: Global/Local Interactions S. Kroon, & J. Swanenberg (Eds.) (2019). Routledge

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-184
Author(s):  
Askar Mambetaliev
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Varieties ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Language Needs ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

Summary The focus of this book, which is a collection of twelve studies, is sociolinguistic transformations in marginal contexts that are not usually covered by mainstream publications. The term ‘margin’ in these studies refers to smaller nations and communities located in the peripheries of global hubs. The book includes online margins as well, contemplating the impact of the internet and mobile devices on people’s lives, where standard programs and instruments employed in informal settings are often not applicable. The collection is published on time when the notion of margins and language needs rethinking and reinterpretation. The topics can be characterized as interdisciplinary, and as such the chapters are densely intertwined with both linguistic and social issues, including the impact of technology on the creation of language varieties, the effect of territorial administration on identity development, the role of media in spreading the languages of subcultures, the effect of mobile phones on the transformation of identities. The methods include linguistic landscaping, content analysis, interviews and conversations, and participant observation. Although some chapters employ a combination of several methods, most studies have used a dominant method to collect data. The editors have collected diverse topics of sociolinguistics in this book, which is a very helpful resource for educational institutions, where theories and methods of applied linguistics are a part of their curriculum. It is also a unique complementary literature useful for junior students of applied linguistics who are in the process of exploring research topics in less discussed contexts. The review combines both descriptive and critical approaches, and includes an overview of each case study and their research methods.

scholarly journals Laughing with, Laughing at

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Chrisoula Lionis ◽  
Alkisti Efthymiou
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Venice Biennale

The autumn of 2019 was characterised by an eruption of global protests, including Lebanon, Iraq, Ecuador, Chile, and Egypt. The velocity with which these protests emerged nurtured a sense that the Global South ‘was on the march’. At the same time as these events were rapidly unfolding, the world’s premier mass art exhibition, the Venice Biennale, was in its final weeks. Harnessing discourse analysis, participant observation, and collaborative auto-ethnography, the authors draw together a comparative study of the Chilean and Egyptian pavilions and assess the impact of ongoing and suspended revolutionary histories of both nations. Approaching art as a form of ‘practical aesthetics’ (Bennett 2012) and focusing on humour as an aesthetic quality enmeshed in complex political temporalities, this article analyses the relationship between humour, contemporary art, and revolution, demonstrating how the laughter facilitated by these two pavilions negotiates understandings of national pasts, and uprisings in the present.

scholarly journals Discourse analysis and digital technologies: (TikTok, hashtags, Instagram, YouTube): universal and specific aspects in international practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (44) ◽  
pp. 198-206
Author(s):  
Natalya Izotova ◽  
Mariia Polishchuk ◽  
Kateryna Taranik-Tkachuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, digital communication helps people to establish contact quickly and conveniently, to convey their message, ideas, the vision of the world to a wide audience. In this regard, new challenges have emerged for discourse analysis in the field of research on the features of digital communication, digital communication practices, the impact of electronic communication technologies on the formation and conduct of discourse, application, and influence of extralinguistic factors on speech. The article analyzes the problems and features of discourse using digital technologies, current trends, and new data in the field of social networks, hashtag activism, problems of involvement, activity, motivation of participants in online communication, formation of their online identity. The authors used system-functional, hermeneutic methods, linguistic analysis, methods of analysis, and synthesis in the framework of discourse theory. The study found and confirmed that the features of digital communication practices and the formation of discourse on the Internet are the widespread use of social networks, hashtags, social integration activities such as challenges, the use of special vocabulary specific to Internet communication, the ability to express themselves and form their own online user identity. Extralinguistic factors of discourse formation in digital communicative practices are major from the point of view of discourse analysis.

scholarly journals Editorial

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egon Jonsson ◽  
Stanley J. Reiser
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Inaugural Meeting ◽  
Care Technology ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

In 1982 we began discussions about the need for a new journal devoted to exploring the impact of technology on health care, and in 1984 we signed on with Cambridge University Press to launch theInternational Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care. The first issue appeared in 1985 in connection to the inaugural meeting that year of the International Society for Technology Assessment in Health Care (ISTAHC), which has held annual meetings for 18 years starting in Washington DC in 1986. The Society was later reformed as Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) in 2003. The Journal has served as the official scientific publication of both ISTAHC and HTAi for 24 years, and its mission remains as it was stated in the introduction to the first issue: to serve as an international forum to explore the effects of health care technology, and to provide “a channel of communication among the diverse and world-wide audience of scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and administrators concerned with this issue. . .to nurture the discipline of technology assessment” (1).

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