scholarly journals “Fighting the Same Old Battle”: Obscured Oil Sands Entanglements in Press Coverage of Indigenous Resistance in the Winter of 1983

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia H. Audette-Longo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
Fort Mcmurray ◽  
Energy Politics ◽  
Northern Alberta

Background  This article examines a week-long road blockade that took place in northern Alberta in January, 1983, organized by members of the Fort McKay First Nation and the Fort McKay Métis Community. The communities leveraged their blockade against a logging company, expanding the conversation to demand compensation, tougher oil sands pollution management, and better healthcare access. Analysis  A critical discourse analysis of newspaper coverage of the blockade in the local Fort McMurray Today and the provincial Edmonton Journal shows how links between the blockade and broader oil sands politics were minimized. Conclusions and implications  The article closes with considerations for contemporary journalistic practices of covering oil development, energy politics, and Indigenous resistance.Contexte  Cet article examine le blocus d’une semaine organisé par la Première Nation de Fort McKay et la Communauté Métis de Fort McKay au nord de l’Alberta en janvier 1983. Ces communautés ont mis à profit leur blocus contre une entreprise forestière pour demander des compensations, une gestion plus stricte de la pollution provenant des sables bitumineux et un meilleur accès aux soins.Analyse  Une analyse critique du discours utilisé pour parler du blocus dans les journaux, au niveau local dans le Fort McMurray Today et au niveau provincial dans le Edmonton Journal, démontre comment les liens entre le blocus et les politiques plus larges des sables bitumineux ont été minimisés.Conclusion et implications  L’article conclut avec des considérations pour les pratiques journalistiques contemporaines dans la couverture du développement pétrolier, politiques énergétiques et résistance autochtone.

scholarly journals Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Dekavalla
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Research Project ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Selection Of

This paper presents preliminary findings from a wider study into the form that political debate takes in Scottish and English/UK newspapers’ reporting of the 2001 and the 2005 UK Elections. The research project aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the role played by the Scottish press in political deliberation after devolution and compares its contribution to the electoral debate with that of newspapers bought in England. This paper explores the results of a content analysis of articles from daily Scottish and UK newspapers during the four weeks of each election campaign period. This reveals that, despite some differences, the overall picture of the coverage of major election issues is consistent. A selection of the coverage of taxation, the most mentioned reserved issue in the 2001 campaign, is subsequently analysed using critical discourse analysis, and the results suggest more distinction between the two sets of newspapers.

scholarly journals Evropeiskii potop: The discourse of apocalypse and silence in Russian press coverage on the issue of refugees

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Johanne Berge Kalsaas
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
News Discourse

This article studies Russia’s news discourse on the refugee crisis of 2015–2016. Employing critical discourse analysis and the concept of news as discourse, the study explores representations of the refugee issue in four Russian newspapers. A predominant feature in the discourse is the use of apocalyptic rhetoric. Elaborating on the concept of post-Soviet aphasia (Oushakine 2000), however, the study also finds that the foremost characteristic of Russian public conversation on refugees is, perhaps, the lack thereof. The apparent discursive “black hole” concerning Russia’s role in the refugee situation is a central finding in the study.

scholarly journals Head in the clouds: a critical discourse analysis of American cloud computing and state surveillance in Post-Snowden press coverage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Security ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
Us Technology

The National Security Agency (NSA) revelations leaked by Edward Snowden on June 6, 2013 regarding the digital surveillance tactics of the United States government were a series of profoundly disruptive discursive events that signaled an uncomfortably cozy relationship between US technology companies and the US government for the maintenance of US national security. Leaked internal NSA slides revealed a host of domestic and foreign clandestine spying programs, including PRISM and MUSCULAR, which suggested the unscrupulous collection of data from US technology giant Google’s cloud servers and private networks, among other technology companies. Google’s cloud computing services particularly became implicated in a crisis of global proportions, as the technology giant and US technology industry writ large faced a global loss of confidence and future revenue from cloud computing customers unhappy with the implications the NSA revelations had for the security of their personal and corporate data. This paper conducts a multi-layer critical discourse analysis about the effect the NSA revelations had on US cloud computing with a specific focus on Google’s cloud computing services. By focusing on the sociopolitical and economic functions of surveillance as established within surveillance literature, this project examines how the crisis was discursively constructed in order to paint a larger picture about how popular press coverage framed the NSA revelations and the relationship of this rhetoric to the technology companies it implicates.

scholarly journals 'Don Fabio' and the taming of the three lions: the discursive construction of a foreign England manager's identity in the sports online written media

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (54) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Dermot Brendan Heaney
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
Micro Analysis

<p>This article considers the appointment of a foreign manager to coach a national football team from the perspective of discursive identity construction. The data is comprised of three corpora of online versions of newspaper articles, each corresponding to a phase in Fabio Capello’s first two years of tenure. Reflecting current trends in Critical Discourse Analysis, qualitative close analysis is carried out on two articles from each corpus while quantitative analysis is extended across each corpus to identify salient and consistent aspects of discursive identity construction. Exploiting the multi-disciplinary basis of CDA, the data is examined in terms of transitivity, lexis (comprising vocabulary, collocation, deixis, and intertextuality), and narrative identity construction. Micro-analysis of grammatical and linguistic patterns is applied to indicate patterns in press coverage in each phase, and a corresponding overview considers how aspects of identity work diffused through each corpus cohere into general storylines.</p>

Attitudes to aging: a comparison of obituaries in Canada and the U.K.

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 787-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth E. Hubbard ◽  
Eamonn M. P. Eeles ◽  
Sherri Fay ◽  
Kenneth Rockwood
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Geriatric Medicine ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Aging Research ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Local Newspapers ◽  
The Individual

ABSTRACTBackground: Populations worldwide are aging and the overall prevalence of dementia at death is now 30%. Since the contemporary social impact of a disease is indicated by the frequency of its newspaper coverage and since obituary notices illuminate conceptions of death, we hypothesized that obituary notices placed by families would reflect societal attitudes to aging and dementia.Methods: We undertook critical discourse analysis of obituaries in representative national and local newspapers in Canada and the U.K.Results: In the 799 obituaries studied, chronological age, suggested donations in memory of the deceased, and donations to dementia charities were each included in significantly more obituaries in Canadian newspapers than in U.K. ones. Military service was explicit for significantly more men aged ≥ 80 years in Canada compared to the U.K. (41% versus 4%; p < 0.05). Of the donations to medical charities, nearly half (n = 117) were to cancer charities and one-fifth (54) to heart and stroke foundations. In the U.K., obituaries for those aged ≥ 70 years were more likely to recommend donations to children's charities (n = 12) or the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (8) than dementia charities (7).Conclusions: Donations to dementia charities were significantly more common in obituaries in Canada than in the U.K. In both countries, donations to medical charities did not reflect disease prevalence or impact to the individual. Societal attitudes in the U.K. may be impacted by the fragmentation of aging research and antipathy to geriatric medicine in the national medical press.

scholarly journals Head in the clouds: a critical discourse analysis of American cloud computing and state surveillance in Post-Snowden press coverage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Security ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Computing Services ◽  
Cloud Computing Services ◽  
Us Technology

The National Security Agency (NSA) revelations leaked by Edward Snowden on June 6, 2013 regarding the digital surveillance tactics of the United States government were a series of profoundly disruptive discursive events that signaled an uncomfortably cozy relationship between US technology companies and the US government for the maintenance of US national security. Leaked internal NSA slides revealed a host of domestic and foreign clandestine spying programs, including PRISM and MUSCULAR, which suggested the unscrupulous collection of data from US technology giant Google’s cloud servers and private networks, among other technology companies. Google’s cloud computing services particularly became implicated in a crisis of global proportions, as the technology giant and US technology industry writ large faced a global loss of confidence and future revenue from cloud computing customers unhappy with the implications the NSA revelations had for the security of their personal and corporate data. This paper conducts a multi-layer critical discourse analysis about the effect the NSA revelations had on US cloud computing with a specific focus on Google’s cloud computing services. By focusing on the sociopolitical and economic functions of surveillance as established within surveillance literature, this project examines how the crisis was discursively constructed in order to paint a larger picture about how popular press coverage framed the NSA revelations and the relationship of this rhetoric to the technology companies it implicates.

A critical multimodal analysis of the Romanian press coverage of camp evictions and deportations of the Roma migrants from France

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petre Breazu ◽  
David Machin
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
The Press ◽  
History Of

In this article, we carry out a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) of a sample from a larger corpus of Romanian news articles that covered the controversial camp evictions and repatriation of Romanian Roma migrants from France that began in 2010 and continue to the time of writing in 2017. These French government policies have been highly criticized both within France and by international political and aid organizations. However, the analysis shows how these brutal, anti-humanitarian events became recontextualized in the Romanian Press to represent the French government’s actions as peaceful and consensual. In addition, the demonization of the Roma in the press serves as a strategy to continuously disassociate them from their Romanian counterparts. While there is a long history of discrimination against the Roma in Romania, these particular recontextualizations can be understood in the context of the Romanian government’s need to gloss over its failure to comply with the Schengen accession requirements and acquire full European Union (EU) membership.

scholarly journals The 'War' of Appropriate Pricing of Petroleum Products: The Discourse of Nigeria's Reform Agenda

2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oladipo Salami ◽  
Kehinde A. Ayoola
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Petroleum Sector ◽  
Discursive Constructions

This study focuses on the newspaper coverage of the debate on the pricing of petroleum products (petroleum, diesel, kerosene, etc.) in Nigeria. It seeks to examine, specifically, the discursive constructions of economic development with particular concern for the reform agenda in the country's petroleum sector. In doing this, the paper tries to analyze and characterize the debate on the increase in the prices of petroleum products in the country between 1999 and 2004; following on the heels of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)-driven reforms. It further situates the analysis of the debate within the history and politics of oil and development in the country with particular concern for the 'angles of telling' of the participants. Using the framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA), the paper attempts to show the ideological elements in the discourse of socio-political development in Nigeria as constructed by the different sociopolitical groups and concludes that the different angles of telling result from different underlying issues of identity and power.

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