scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Rethinking the Past and Defining the Present

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 318
Author(s):  
Daniel Tiruneh ◽  
Getachew Baye ◽  
Yosef Beco Dubi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Share Information

<p><em>The purpose of this study is to unearth the landscape of social media and analyse the contents. Contents of social media, in Ethiopia, are varying over the course of changes in politics, health, socio-economic conditions of the country. Some of the contents are reflected in the forms of narratives, comments, briefings, anecdotes, and verses to list a few. Contents changing the way people interact with each other and share information, personal messages, and opinions about situations, objects, and past experiences- rethinking the past, themes are linked to the present and define the present Ethiopia. In order to attain the stated objective, the researchers developed critical discourse analysis as a research methodology and adapted Norman Fairclough’s model of Analysis as a theoretical framework. Most social media texts are short online conversational posts or comments that do not contain enough information for a full textual analysis. Therefore, using purposive sampling six excerpts were collected from various discourses of the social media platforms, particularly Facebook, Facebook messenger, and YouTube.  Based on the contexts of the discourses, the analysis was categorized thematically. The study concluded that social media users used the platform as a means to reflect both the status quo of the past and linking to the current COVID-19 and its socio-economic impacts. COVID-19 is depicted as a disease, resulting from human wrongdoings, very dangerous which is deadly even to Satan. It is also depicted as a warrior, an extremely hungry predator looking for its prey, ready to eat up human being ravenous without a need for proper chewing. </em></p>

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis: Hegemony of the Social Media Twitter About National Issues in Indonesia and its Implications to the Discourse Analysis Subject in Colleges

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-166
Author(s):  
Elvi Susanti
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Services ◽  
The World ◽  
Trending Topics ◽  
Discourse Practice

Abstract This research is linked with Twitter, as one of social media services on the Internet that are extremely popular in the world, including in Indonesia. This research is important because Twitter is effective in quickly and accurately delivering messages. In fact, everyone can act as a 'reporter' and form quick opinions through this social media. This research is aimed to investigate the emergence of the roots of hegemony based on text analysis that is linked with representation, relation, identity, and transformation of national issues that become trending topics on Twitter. Moreover, the research is to discuss the social media's discourse practice that influences media workers in producing news, and to see how it implicates the research on the study of discourse analysis. By using the Fairclough theory, especially on text analysis that is linked with representation, relation, and identity, the researcher attempts to explore how the roots of hegemony emerge in the national issues that become trending topics on Twitter. The researcher also offers a new function to complete the approach of Fairclough in text analysis on social media: transformation – which is an attempt to see the change in roles of news participants and amateur readers as 'reporters' and participate in forming opinions. Abstrak Penelitian ini berhubungan dengan twitter, sebagai salah satu media sosial di internet yang sangat populer di dunia, termasuk di indonesia. Penelitian ini penting karena twitter efektif dalam menyampaikan pesan dengan cepat dan akurat. Faktanya, semua orang dapat bertindak sebagai "reporter" dan membuat opini yang cepat melalui sosial media tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyelidiki kemunculan dari akar hagemoni berdasarkan analisis teks yang berhubungan dengan representasi, hubungan, identitas, dan transformasi isu-isu nasional yang menjadi topik yang sedang tren di twitter. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga untuk mendiskusikan praktik wacana media sosial  yang mempengaruhi pekerja media dalam membuat berita, dan untuk melihat bagaimana hal tersebut melibatkan penelitian dalam studi analisis wacana. Dengan menggunakan teori Fairclough, khususnya pada analisis teks yang berhubungan dengan penafsiran, hubungan, identitas, peneliti berupaya untuk menyelidiki bagaimana akar hegemoni muncul yang menjadi topik tren di twitter. Peneliti juga menawarkan sebuah fungsi baru untuk melengkapi pendekatan Fairlclough dalam analisis teks pada sosial media: transformasi - yang merupakan usaha untuk melihat perubahan peran pembuat berita dan pembaca awam sebagai 'reporter' dan berpartisipasi dalam membentuk opini. How to Cite : Susanti, E. (2015). Hegemony of The Social Media Twitter About National Issues in Indonesia and Its Implications to the Discourse Analysis Subject in Colleges. TARBIYA: Journal Of Education In Muslim Society, 2(2), 153-166. doi:10.15408/tjems.v2i2.3180. Permalink/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/tjems.v2i2.3180

scholarly journals KOMODIFIKASI SENSUALITAS DALAM TAYANGAN KIMI HIME DI MEDIA SOSIAL YOUTUBE

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liony Gita ◽  
Cosmas Gatot Haryono
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Channel

<p>ABSTRACT<br />This study discusses the discourse contained in the Kimi Hime youtube upload which is quite controversial because it is considered too sensual. This research is a research with a critical paradigm which analyzes the Norman Fairclough critical discourse analysis and uses the content commodification theory proposed by Vincent Mosco. The results of this study indicate that the YouTube show made by Kimi Hime is basically a commodification of sensuality by producing the title and content of the show, including reproducing sensual words and sentences that can arouse male biological desires to attract many viewers and visitors from the social media channel Kimi Hime.<br />Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Commodification, Sensuality</p><p> </p><p>ABSTRAK<br />Penelitian ini membahas mengenai wacana yang terkandung dalam unggahan youtube Kimi Hime yang cukup kontroversial karena dianggap terlalu sensual. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian dengan paradigma kritis yang melakukan analisis dengan menggunakan analisis wacana kritis Norman Fairclough dan menggunakan teori komodifikasi konten yang dikemukanan oleh Vincent Mosco. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa tayangan youtube yang dibuat Kimi Hime pada dasarnya merupakan suatu komodifikasi terhadap sensualitas yang dilakukan dengan memproduksi judul dan isi tayangan, termasuk di dalamnya mereproduksi kata dan kalimat yang bersifat sensual serta bisa mengguah hasrat biologis lelaki demi menarik banyak penonton dan pengunjung dari kanal media sosial Kimi Hime.<br />Kata Kunci: Analisis Wacana Kritis, Komodifikasi, Sensualitas</p>

scholarly journals Digitized narratives of sexual violence: Making sexual violence felt and known through digital disclosures

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 1290-1310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaitlynn Mendes ◽  
Jessalynn Keller ◽  
Jessica Ringrose
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Social Media Platforms

In this article, we argue that social media platforms like Tumblr and Twitter have facilitated an emergence of “digitized narratives” of sexual violence. These narratives are rooted in historical ways in which feminists have discursively articulated sexual violence, yet are shaped by distinctive “platform vernacular” or the conventions, affordances, and restrictions of the platforms in which they appear. Drawing on a qualitative content and critical discourse analysis of 450 texts from the Tumblr site Who Needs Feminism? and the hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported, we argue that digital platforms such as Tumblr and Twitter produce new vernacular practices which shape how “digitized narratives” of sexual violence are not only disclosed and known, but felt and experienced across digital networks.

scholarly journals The "Winter of Native Discontent": A critical discourse analysis of Canadian opinion journalism on the Idle No More Movement

COMPASS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-46
Author(s):  
Tiffany Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Popular View ◽  
Opinion Journalism

Aboriginal activism has become increasingly subject to media publicity, reflecting a popular view of Aboriginals not only as a social problem but as creating problems that threaten the social fabric. This paper is based on the findings of a critical discourse analysis of a collection of opinion pieces published in The Globe and Mail and the National Post. The contemporary construction of the “Indian problem” was investigated in the context of the Idle No More movement, viewing these texts as part of larger processes of elaboration, articulation, and application of Western ideas on Aboriginal social policy. One of the fundamental conflicts that can be identified in settler discourse is in regard to history and change and a particular concern with how much of the past should be carried into the future. The discontinuous view of history emphasizes the distance of history, making the past seem foreign to the modern, civilized eye. Injustices are presented as characteristics of history, and the violence of colonial times can be disconnected from the present.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE USE ON FACEBOOK: A STUDY OF PREMIUM TIMES NEWS HEADLINES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Bossan ◽  
Gideon Abioye Oyedeji
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Headlines

Attaining national unity and cohesion is a function of deliberate strategic plans of different facets of human endeavour in a nation. The language front has important role to play in fostering national unity and cohesion in any country. The Nigeria and Africa situation is not an exception. The chaos and rivalry that have become an intrinsic experience for us in Nigeria and in fact, Africa is partly a function of careless and unchecked language use in the social media. This paper, therefore, explores the use and misuse of language on social media. The study examines the comments of Facebook users to online news headlines posted on Premium Times Facebook handle. A corpus of a week screenshot samples of these comments are collected out of which nine (9) were purposively selected for the analysis. These nine (9) data are grouped into five (5) texts. The selected data were analysed using Dell Hymes’ Ethnography of Speaking complemented by Theo van Leeuwen’s Identities and Subjectivity Model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The paper uses the SPEAKING acronym as the theoretical insight and discussion was based on the postulations of the CDA model adopted. The study found that the responses from readers are mostly tilting towards their individual affiliations. Also, instances of arguments and rebuttals by readers reflect a situation where the polarity tilts in bidirectional positive in-group - “us” and negative out-group – “them” among the different affiliations the users represent. The study further found that copious use of vulgar expressions pervades the comments of readers. This study therefore concludes that such use of language cannot help Nigeria and Africa in its quest for unity. The study recommends that media literacy be taught in schools in order to entrench civility in the discussions of people on social media.

scholarly journals Discursive Strategies on Ridwan Kamil’s Status Update: a Critical Discourse Analysis

Humaniora ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Yudhy Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Written Expression ◽  
The People ◽  
The Status ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
The Impact

The research was aimed to know the impact of a written expression through social media toward the people who read it. The analysis was performed in accordance with the theories of strategy, discourse analysis, and critical discourse analysis put by Wodak and Meyer (2001) and Renkema (2009), and the theories of internet and language by Crystal (2004). The data were taken from the page of Ridwan Kamil, Mayor of Bandung in that social media. The research needed to see the strategy in his status update (written expression). From the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) point of view, it can be understood the way people transfer their ideas and thoughts showed their power and influenced the people through some certain strategies. The results of the research show (1) all strategies are used in his status update, namely the referential/nomination, the predication, the argumentation, the perspectivation and the intensification strategies, (2) there are always some implicit and explicit intentions that are shared through the status update, and (3) there are some certain aspects that affect the readers of the status update.

scholarly journals ZOHRI BECOMES WORLD CHAMPION RUN 100 U-20 IN FINLAND, RED-WHITE FLAG CONTROVERSY IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmah Nursira ◽  
Rafi'ah Nur
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Responsibility Of Government ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Further Development

The present critical discourse analysis investigated opinion about the red-white flag controversy when Zohri became world Champion run 100 U-20 in Finlad of the social media, such as: YouTube, Facebook as well as Online News. Theoretical framework of this study is imbedden within Van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach to understanding media influence in reproduction of prejudice and stereotypes. The analysis revels that red-white flag controversy is evaluated negatively. In addition, the number of evaluations with implied negative meanings increased over the opinion some famous people. By focusing on the responsibility of government didn't care athletics, this study contributes to further development of the theories about relationship athletic and social power.

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 Political Discourse of Jordan: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Ali Al-Momani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Psychological Dimensions

Based on the critical discourse analysis theory, the main purpose of this study is to highlight the social and psychological dimensions of the political discourse of Jordan through analyzing king Abdullah’s address to the American Congress in 2007 from socio-cognitive, socio-ideological, and socio-stylistic perspectives. Additionally, the paper uses the critical discourse analysis theory to examine selected quotations from the king’s address in order to see how the Jordanian political discourse is influenced by the status, ideologies, and attitudes of the congressmen to whom it is directed.

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