scholarly journals Middle-Class Islamist Women’s Activism on Social Media:

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Alifatul Lusiana Uswatun Chasanah ◽  
Mukhammad Zamzami
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Theological Argument

This article critically discusses tweets content hashtag #Womenneedkhilafah which is mostly followed by Indonesia’s middle-class Muslimah. A qualitative method with Foucauldian discourse analysis is applied in this study to analyse tweets expressing Islamist women’s activism published on the hashtag #Womenneedkhilafah. The findings have revealed that the hashtag #womenneedkhilafah is cons­tructed through the knowledge-power relations of Hizbut Tah­rir Indonesia’s Islamist ideology by a literal-textual theological argument which is oriented to propagate Islamism and to create an independent Islamic state or caliphate. The manifest­tation of the power-knowledge relation is by limiting women’s role, mobility, and authority over their bodies. HTI has res­tricted women’s role to become household caretakers, parti­cularly to educate their children to prepare a new and stronger generation of HTI.

Hashtag Feminism in Romania: #MeToo and Its Effects on Cyberspace Behavior

Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Andreea Voina ◽  
Anișoara Pavelea ◽  
Lorina Culic
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Culture Of Gender

In the recent years, cyberspace has become an incubator for feminist activism. Cyberfeminism has gained momentum through various online platforms, campaigns, movements, and galvanized women (and – to a certain extent – men) to “move beyond the hashtag” and engage in actions meant to drive socio-political change. The Women’s March on Washington in January 2016, for instance, was triggered by a Facebook post, and turned into an unprecedented women’s activism action, replicating across the globe. A more recent movement, #MeToo, has emerged into cyberspace and raised issues of credibility, as it tapped into a culture of gender inequality and power relations that created and fostered an environment of intimidation and silence. The unprecedented wave of sexual harassment allegations brought to surface countless confessions from regular women and celebrities who have been pivotal in raising awareness on this issue. However, this cyberfeminist movement also intensified the cyberbullying phenomenon, as the mechanisms of storytelling engaged in #MeToo have not only generated a wave of gendered solidarity, but also one of trivializing – even bashing – such stories, and the individuals who reported previous incidents on social media. This paper analyzes the emergence and development of the #MeToo movement in Romania in the fall of 2017, focusing on storytelling mechanisms employed on Facebook and effects on user behavior, an assessment of social media users’ navigation of the phenomenon, in terms of solidarity networks and bullying generated by Romanian women’s tackling of a cultural taboo.

scholarly journals Contestation of Islamic Radicalism in Online Media: A Study with Foucault’s Theory on Power Relation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Haramain ◽  
Nurhikmah ◽  
Abu Bakar Juddah ◽  
Ahmad Sultra Rustan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Ideological Struggle ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Women's Role

This article aims to study the patterns of Islamic discourses constructed by radical Islamic groups in social media. This article focuses on analyzing several Instagram accounts of the groups in shaping Islamic discourses. The discourses of Islamic radicalism were actually not a new idea, even now it has become one of the most talked phenomena. This study discusses the discourse of Islamic radicalism on social media, which is one of its missions is to promote the idea of formalizing Islamic sharia in Indonesia. The results showed that the forms of Islamic radicalism discourses on social media such as the invitation to avoid bid'ah, the campaign to implement Islamic law or Islamic state, Islamic Khilafah discourse that carries "anti-democracy", and a campaign to marginalize women's role in the public sphere. These issues are produced by radical Islamic groups through social media because these media are considered to be strategic and effective in campaigning their discourses as a means of ideological struggle. Fundamentalist Islamic groups are very keen to read the gap, they distinguish a change in the daily lifestyle of modern society which cannot be separated from the gadget. Therefore, they try to master and construct Islamic discourses in cyberspace with their point of view without considering to allow the differences of contextual understanding.

ANALYZE TURN TAKING IN TALK SHOW ABOUT EDUCATION FOR EVERYONE ON CHANNEL YOUTUBE

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Deri Setiawan ◽  
Zely Mustika Ningtyas ◽  
Ida Lisdawati
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Talk Show ◽  
Turn Taking ◽  
Main Activity

AbstractThe research about speaking language section of discrouse analysis turn taking analyze language. In this research, the researchers use qualitative method and the data is obtained from the video talkshow in the youtube about “Learn English with Taylor Swift”. In the talkshow, there are two persons that have in video, one speaker and one hearer, and tells about someone using social media, trips to Asia, and tour. The talkshow has a message of education, motivation for people to use social media. The purpose of this study is to find out the talkshow had a turn to speak. Analyze in video is the main activity in this research. In the video talkshow the speaker gives questions according to the topics that are brought or presented. In this talkshow the speaker ended the event with the closing. Keywords: Turn taking, talkshow , discourse analysis, qualitative.

#ShamimaBegum: An analysis of social media narratives relating to female terrorist actors

Politics ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 026339572110414
Author(s):  
Carys Evans ◽  
Raquel da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Terrorist Activity ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Media Narratives

This study explores the constructions of gender in social media narratives regarding Shamima Begum, a British born woman who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Using the Twitter hashtag #ShamimaBegum – developed in response to Begum’s expressed interest in returning to the United Kingdom to give birth to her third child – we employ critical discourse analysis to examine social media users’ responses to Begum’s case across a 3-week period. We portray how the vernacular narratives constructing femininity, gender, and their relation to terrorist activity are built on the expectation that the female actor should express remorse for her actions and is judged according to certain perceptions of maternalism, religion, and victimhood. We also explore the absence of considered agency in the narratives about women engaging in and disengaging from violent activities, demonstrating the weight of race, religion, and gender in shaping narratives surrounding perceived violent women.

Weaponized iconoclasm in Internet memes featuring the expression ‘Fake News’

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Small Pool ◽  
Online Culture

The expression ‘Fake News’ inside Internet memes engenders significant online virulence, possibly heralding an iconoclastic emergence of weaponized propaganda for assaulting agencies reared on public trust. Internet memes are multimodal artifacts featuring ideological singularities designed for ‘flash’ consumption, often composed by numerous voices echoing popular, online culture. This study proposes that ‘Fake News’ Internet memes are weaponized iconoclastic multimodal propaganda (WIMP) discourse and attempts to delineate them as such by asking: What power relations and ideologies do Internet memes featuring the expression ‘fake news’ harbor? How might those manifestations qualify as WIMP discourse? A multimodal critical discourse analysis of a small pool of ‘fake news’ Internet memes drawn from four popular social media websites revealed what agencies were often targeted and from what political canons they likely emerged. Findings indicate that many Internet memes featuring ‘fake news’ are specifically directed, revealing an underlying hazard that WIMP discourse could diminish democratic processes while influencing online trajectories of public discourse.

Nacir, Tahar, and Farid: Identification, Disidentification, and Impossible Citizenship

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis M. Provencher
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Homosexual Men ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Men I

I complete this study in this final chapter by turning to conversations with working-class and middle-class men I first met online through social media and chat sites during my six years of fieldwork. Subsequently, I conducted over 50 hour-long, semi-structured, face-to-face interviews with these self-identified homosexual men of Maghrebi and Maghrebi French origin. I draw on conversation and critical discourse analysis in this chapter to show how their stories of challenge and resilience often resonate with those analyzed in the previous chapters.

Behind the veils of discourse: Analysing the connection between discourse and exploitation on the ‘social’ internet

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-442
Author(s):  
Lars Erik Løvaas Gjerde
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
The Social

In this article, I discuss the connection between discursive and social practice on the so-called ‘social’ internet. While the economic significance of platform capitalism grows, the discourse which constitutes these platforms as the substrate of the ‘social’ internet remains largely unquestioned. I will argue that economic realities are obscured by the social frames of interpretation which dominate our understanding of the internet. I will show how the internet is dominated by this naturalized discourse which I name ‘sociodigital’. Whether the internet may best be described in social terms or not is a question outside of the scope of this text. Rather, I will analyse how exploitation is veiled by this myth of the ‘social’ internet. The importance of this lies in unveiling hidden exploitation in an era where economic inequalities are increasing both rapidly and globally while simultaneously, the importance of ‘softer’ linguistic power increases. This makes discourse analysis important to reveal hidden power relations. I will argue that the users of ‘social’ media are exploited through their production of content, as this generates profits for the capitalist. This exploitation is however both veiled and increased by the discourse, which thus functions ideologically. Therefore, I will wield critical discourse analysis to unravel how the myth of the ‘social’ internet suppresses the economic consequences of exploitation.

scholarly journals Propaganda dan Teori Konspirasi: Wacana Masyarakat terhadap Covid-19 di Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhirul Aminulloh ◽  
Myrtati Dyah Artaria ◽  
Latif Fianto ◽  
Emei Dwinanarhati Setiamandani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Natural Virus

 The conspiracy theory allows non-existent information to be exist. Likewise with propaganda which causes information to roll without being able to ascertain its correctness because its purpose is to manipulate public opinion. This study aims to see the complexity of the fight against the Covid-19 discourse in Indonesian society. This study used a qualitative method with a critical discourse analysis approach. Data collection was obtained from online media and social media, especially Twitter in the April 2020 period. The data were analyzed by using the Critical Discourse Analysis model of Fairclough. The result of this study indicated that it was not enough for the Covid-19 outbreak to be reported as a natural virus, but to be explored into a controversial discourse in the form of a conspiracy theory. The propaganda of the Covid-19 conspiracy theory was carried out through social media. Belief in conspiracy theory was caused by three things, they were people needed definite and reasonable answer to the phenomenon of the Covid-19 pandemic, they wanted to have control over their lives, and the impact of Post Truth era. Keywords: Propaganda, Conspiracy Theory, Discourse, Covid-19

The Media Conspiracy Behind the Death of Diana, Princess Of Wales: A Study of Critical Discourse Analysis

Metahumaniora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Indah Mustika Santhi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
The Media ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Social Level

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini berjudul “The Media Conspiracy Behind the Death of Diana, Princessof Wales: A Study of Critical Discourse Analysis”. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskanbagaimana kematian Putri Diana direpresentasikan oleh The Daily Mail dalam artikelartikelpemberitaannya melalui dimensi tekstual dan juga memaparkan cara pandang TheDaily Mail sebagai pelaku media konspirasi pada praktik kerjanya terkait berita kematianPutri Diana dalam dimensi sosiokultural. Objek penelitian ini adalah The Daily Mail, salahsatu tabloid harian terbesar di Inggris. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalahmetode kualitatif, analisis deskriptif. Penulis menggunakan teori analisis wacana kritisFairclough (1995), disertai dengan beberapa teori pendukung lainnya, seperti teori klausasebagai representasi Halliday (2004), teori konspirasi Feaster (2008), Birchall (2006),Barkun (2003), Hodapp dan von Kannun (2008). Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkanbahwa representasi kematian Putri Diana dalam dimensi tekstual didapat melalui prosesmaterial, proses mental, proses relasional, proses verbal, dan proses eksistensial yangterdapat dalam artikel-artikel The Daily Mail. Sementara itu, cara pandang The Daily Mailsebagai pelaku media konspirasi atas berita kematian Putri Diana didapat melalui prosestataran sosial, tataran institusional, tataran sosial pada dimensi praktik sosiokultural.Kata Kunci: Transitivitas, Analisis Wacana Kritis, Media konspirasi.ABSTRACTThis thesis is entitled “The Media Conspiracy Behind the Death of Diana, Princessof Wales: A Study of Critical Discourse Analysis”. This thesis is aimed to describe therepresentation of Princess Diana’s death and The Daily Mail’s perspective as a mediaconspiracy actor through textual and sociocultural dimension. The object of this thesis isThe Daily Mail, one of the widest national daily newspapers in England. The method that isused in this thesis is a qualitative method, a descriptive analytic method. The writer uses thecritical discourse analysis theory of Fairclough (1995) and some other supported theories,such as clause as representation theory by Halliday (2004), the conspiracy theory by Feaster(2008), Birchall (2006), Barkun (2003), Hodapp and von Kannun (2008). The result of thisresearch shows that the representation in textual dimension that appear on Princess Diana’sdeath is derived from material process, mental process, relational process, verbal process, andexistential process. While The Daily Mail’s perspective on Princess Diana’s death is derivedfrom situational level, institutional level and social level of sociocultural practice dimension.Keywords: Transitivity, Critical Discourse Analysis, Media Conspiracy.

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