scholarly journals Political and Ideological Tensions in Palestine

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-78
Author(s):  
Rami Qawariq
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Actor Model ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ideological Tensions

It is widely accepted that the struggle over media representation within the Palestinian-Israeli struggle is no less important than the struggle on the ground (Wolfsfeld, 1997). Although the role of the media in this struggle has been a focal interest for researchers, the vast majority of studies adopt top-down approaches with macro-level tools of analysis which lead to a dichotomous positive ‘Self’ and negative ‘Other’ representation. This study, in contrast, is a qualitative language-based analysis of three Palestinian news websites, which publish in English, during the 2014 Gaza war. These news websites are indicative of the media landscape in Palestine, and the choice of these outlets is intended to present a range of possible views. The study adds to the effort that approaches media discourse to detect fissures and dissonances, rather than identifying stabilities and symmetries. It aims at revealing some discursive aspects of the way marginal ideologies compete with the dominant discourse in Palestine. This is intended to shed light on the latent change in the Palestinian political culture and how it is discursively articulated. Within the framework of critical discourse analysis, the study takes account of transitivity (Halliday, 1985; Halliday & Matthiessen, 2004), the social actor model (van Leeuwen, 2008) and referential strategies (Reisigl & Wodak, 2009) to conduct its bottom-up analysis. The study finds that Palestinian news websites subtly exploit representations of actions and actors in their struggle for power, representativeness and legitimacy. More importantly, the results of this study reveal that a marginal ideology in Palestine is growing and competing with hegemonic national narratives. While the hegemonically dominant ideology depends on common public knowledge and backgrounds much contextual information, the marginal ideology mainly functions via the extensive contextualization of events, which takes a bottom-up discursive direction in relation to the prevailing socio-political culture.Keywords: Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory; conflict; Shakespeare; Chinese Daoism; education

scholarly journals Social Reality Formation in Media Discourse: Information Ambiguity Strategy

2019 ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Vladimir Ozyumenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
News Websites ◽  
Semantic Component ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Ambiguity

Modern media have become an important ideological tool in conveying and forming a certain view of the world and attitude towards it. While complying with the interests of the power structures, they shape public opinion by means of increasingly sophisticated media technologies and techniques. The article introduces multilevel means of creating ambiguity of a media text: verbs with the semantic component 'without proof', lexical units with semantics of uncertainty, means of expressing epistemic modality, interrogative headings, etc. The regular use of these means observed in the media enables the author to consider ambiguity as one efficient strategy of public opinion manipulation. The data for the study were obtained from quality British and American newspapers and news websites that cover events related to Russia. By using the methods of linguistic pragmatics and sociolinguistics as well as critical discourse analysis, it was proved that the ambiguity is a widely spread method in modern media, it enables journalists to write about unconfirmed facts and introduce a certain attitude towards them into the minds of the audience without bearing any responsibility for unsubstantiated information.

scholarly journals Struggles over legitimacy in the Eurozone crisis: Discursive legitimation strategies and their ideological underpinnings

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 500-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eero Vaara
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Alternative Future ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
Legitimacy Crisis ◽  
Financial Capitalism ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

This article focuses on the discursive underpinnings of the legitimacy crisis that the Eurozone as a transnational institution is facing. By adopting a critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective, the empirical analysis focuses on the media discussion in Finland. The analysis shows how discourses of financial capitalism, humanism, nationalism and Europeanism played a central role in legitimation, delegitimation and relegitimation. Furthermore, the analysis elaborates on the legitimation strategies that were often used in the media texts: position-based authorizations involving institutionalized authorities and ‘voices of the common man’, knowledge-based authorizations focusing on economic expertise, rationalizations concentrating on economic arguments, moral evaluations based on unfairness used especially for delegitimation, mythopoiesis involving alternative future scenarios and cosmology used to construct inevitability. By so doing, this study adds to our understanding of the discursive and ideological underpinnings of the social, political and financial crisis in Greece and other European countries and contributes to research on discursive legitimation more generally.

scholarly journals Positive Reaction Toward Trade and Economic Partnership Between Indonesia and Australia Governments in The Jakarta Post

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Rosaria Mita Amalia ◽  
Taufik Ampera ◽  
Yuyu Yohana Risagarniwa
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Positive Reaction ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Economic Partnership

This study explores the representation of social actors, both in the Indonesian and Australian governments on the Trade and Economic Partnership through Critical Discourse Analysis approach. The issue focuses on both governments partnership published in the Jakarta Post during 2014-2018. Using Critical Discourse Analysis as an approach, this article analyses the media exclusion and inclusion strategies of social actors. By applying descriptive qualitative methods, result shows that the dominant strategy is the inclusion strategy. The use of inclusion strategy indicates specifications, individualization and categorization of positive reaction and support of The Jakarta Post towards the Indonesian government on trade and economic partnership between Indonesia and Australia. However, the use of exclusion strategy is aim to hide the social actors in the discourse and to divert reader's attention to the object rather than the subject discourse.

scholarly journals Intercultural journalism: Peruvian and Bolivian representation in the Chilean daily press news

Comunicar ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
pp. 85-93
Author(s):  
Rodrigo-Francisco Browne-Sartori ◽  
Ricardo-Alberto Baessolo-Stiven ◽  
Víctor-Manuel Silva-Echeto
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
Social Construction Of Reality ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

This article examines the processes through which the massive press generates and represents the cultural discourses of two of the most polemic migrant groups coexisting nowadays in Chile: Peruvians and Bolivians. The representation that the communication media carries out regarding the studied cultures strongly influences the imaginaries of the Chilean audiences. That calls for special concern so as to propose the necessary spaces for intercultural exchange as much in the media as in the social institutions. These spaces will be the ones in which communication studies and intercultural journalism can unite, in order to offer meeting and communication alternatives between culturally different groups. The principal goal of this research study is to understand how, in the processes of social construction of reality through the communication media, are represented the Peruvian and Bolivian «discourses of difference» in Chile. The methodology employed to validate such proposal is the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) applied to the news in «La Cuarta» and «Las Últimas Noticias» newspapers, belonging to the press groups with the greatest circulation of the country: the consortia Copesa y El Mercurio S.A.P. The results of the research allow us to conclude that these press media represent realities which tend to marginalise the «migrant other», through the reinforcement of identity imaginaries constructed upon the frontier relationships among the three national-states. El presente trabajo estudia los mecanismos por los cuales la prensa masiva genera y representa discursos culturales provenientes de dos de los grupos más polémicos que en la actualidad conviven con lo chileno: peruanos y bolivianos. La representación que hacen los medios de comunicación sobre las culturas estudiadas incide fuertemente en los imaginarios que crean sus audiencias, lo que demanda una preocupación por proponer espacios de interacción intercultural tanto en los medios como en otras instituciones sociales, donde los estudios de la comunicación y el periodismo intercultural se cohesionen para ofrecer alternativas de encuentro y comunicación entre grupos culturalmente distintos. El objetivo central de esta investigación es comprender cómo, en los procesos de construcción social de la realidad a través de los medios de comunicación masivos, son representados los «discursos de la diferencia» peruano y boliviano en Chile. La metodología empleada para validar dicha propuesta es la del análisis crítico del discurso (ACD) aplicado en las noticias de los diarios «La Cuarta» y «Las Últimas Noticias», pertenecientes a los grupos periodísticos con mayor tiraje en el país: consorcios «Copesa» y «El Mercurio». Los resultados de la investigación permiten concluir que estos medios de prensa representan realidades que tienden a marginar al «otro migrante», a través del reforzamiento de imaginarios de identidad construidos desde las relaciones fronterizas entre los tres estados-nacionales.

scholarly journals MEMBEDAH REALITAS KOMUNIKASI LINTAS AGAMA DI MEDIA MASSA (Critical Discourse Analisys terhadap Kompas tahun 2015)

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-198
Author(s):  
Umi Halwati
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
The Social ◽  
Plural Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Race And Religion

Abstract: The consequence of a plural society is social conflict. An attitude that can stimulate conflict is exclusivism, primordial ethnicity, race and religion. The existence of an interfaith communication cannot be separated from the mass media. The mass media is a tool or an effective mediator in the publication of ideology in the stage win public support. Therefore, it is necessary to study scientifically how the media constructs a discourse of reality. This study is qualitative research using critical discourse analysis approach. The results of this study describe how the Kompas newspaper construct a discourse, both in terms of thematic, schematic, semantic, syntactic, rhetorical, and in terms of the social aspect of the analysis. Keyword: inter-religious communication, media.

scholarly journals The Critical Discourse Analysis on Pornography News of “V Garut” at TribunJabar.id Online Media

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-33
Author(s):  
Zikri Fachrul Nurhadi ◽  
◽  
Neneng Cucu Marlina ◽  
Mochamad Firdaus ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Media

The emergence of pornography cases that had gone viral on social media with the tagline "V Garut" shocked the public because the act was committed by a woman and several men. The female suspect claimed that this act was done because of coercion and pressure that the male suspect had put on her. The research aims to explain the level of text, social cognition and social context of the pornography news of "V Garut" on the online media of TribunJabar.id. The research used a qualitative descriptive method with the theoretical approach of critical discourse analysis by Teun A. Van Dijk. Data collection techniques used observation, interviews, and documentation. The research object was related to the news of "V Garut" on the online media TribunJabar.id with two informants. The results of research at the text level in the elements of macrostructures, superstructures and microstructures explain the existence of a discourse indicating an unfavourable situation such as violence and marginalization on the role of "V Garut". Journalists’ social cognition tends to judge this case as “unique” phenomenon, not focusing on a social issue that must be addressed in society. Based on the analysis of the social context of this news, it can be seen that there is a powerful practice of the media and the authority’s access in reporting the “V Garut” case. Keywords: Critical discourse analysis, pornography, social cognition, social context, text.

Reproducing Orientalism With Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 953-973
Author(s):  
Deniz Yüceer Berker
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Effective Mass ◽  
World View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Pressure ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

The place and importance of mass media as an ideological device is accepted without any discussion today. The sovereign states, trying to impose their ideology and world view to “others,” impose the dominant ideology by using the media as well as economic and political pressure. Cinema is like a mirror that reveals the socio-cultural and economic structures in societies and reflects all changes and conflicts. Therefore, the relationship between cinema and social structure is quite strong. At this point, the relationship between cinema and orientalism, which is the subject of the study, becomes important. Orientalism is constantly being reproduced through cinema, which is one of the most effective mass media. In this context, the movie Aladdin produced in 2019 will be analyzed in order to analyze how the orientalist perspective is reproduced with cinema and how the eastern image is “otherized.” In the study, critical discourse analysis method was preferred for the purpose of analyzing the social and political backgrounds of the ideologies in the film.

Media framing of the Macedonia name change issue: The use of fear-inducing language strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-284
Author(s):  
Zorica Trajkova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Name Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Neighbouring Country ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Language Strategies

Abstract It is considered a huge socio-political step for a country to change its name, especially under pressure imposed by another country. In January 2019, Macedonia officially became the Republic of North Macedonia after a three-decade long dispute with its neighbouring country Greece. Macedonian citizens have long suffered the consequences of this dispute and have often expressed their dissatisfaction on the social media. However, the media played a crucial role in shaping their opinions regarding this situation. This paper attempts to present how pro- and anti-government oriented media sources framed the issue and influenced the citizens’ perceptions of it. More precisely, it conducts a critical discourse analysis of 30 online newspaper articles, written during three specific periods on a timeline from January 2018 to February 2019, before, during and after the name change. The analysis sets out to identify lexical, pragmatic and discursive devices acting as potential fear triggers through which threat frames are being constructed. The results showed that both pro- and anti- government media sources appeal mostly to people’s emotions by generating fear related to a hypothetical future – in the case of the former it instigated fear of what might happen with the future of the country provided the name was not changed, while in the case of the latter, if the name was changed.

scholarly journals News Trend in Political Participation: Does News Convince Female Electors to Vote? A Comparative Study between Egypt’s (Cairo) and Morocco’s (Rabat) Media Campaigns

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. p27
Author(s):  
Monia Mohsen ◽  
Iman El-Bastawisi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Media Campaigns ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

The aim of this paper to explore the news availability and its effect on female voting behaviour in Egypt’s capital Cairo and Morocco’s capital Rabat political elections. The study used an exploratory research design, working within a qualitative paradigm two sources of evidence were employed. Commentary was compiled from respondents: (i) Twenty in-depth face-to-face interviews with key respondents from Egypt and Morocco (ii) Four focus groups with each group containing six respondents in Egypt and Morocco. In regards to the findings, the media impact was apparent in both countries that influence citizens. However, they mentioned minimal influence by the available political news. Egyptian citizens confirmed that they were not convinced that the available news convince females to vote, as they felt that the available newspapers and news websites is of less credibility, yet Moroccan citizens confirmed that the available news is credible and it does convince females to vote. Mentioning social and cultural determinates that affects females in the society, both Egyptians and Moroccans claimed that females have their full rights that gives full freedom to participate in the elections. Finally, both citizens conformed that the social media, is the most effective medium employed in political media campaigns.

scholarly journals El discurso periodístico de la participación de las mujeres en el Movimiento de los 43 = The journalistic discourse of women’s participation in the Movement of the 43

2018 ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Aleida Leticia Tello Divicino ◽  
Monica Violeta Morales Jiménez ◽  
Dulce María Quinterio Romero
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Press ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The Media ◽  
Municipal Police ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

<p class="Cuerpodetexto"><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>El 26 de septiembre de 2014, policías municipales desaparecieron a 43 estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa en Iguala, Guerrero, México. Las madres de los desaparecidos fueron las primeras y principales participantes del movimiento social nombrado por los medios de comunicación como el Movimiento de los 43. Sin embargo, en el discurso de la prensa fueron invisibilizadas o relegadas a los roles tradiciones establecidos por el sistema patriarcal, de acuerdo con los resultados de un Análisis Crítico del Discurso realizado a tres diarios de circulación local y estatal del estado de Guerrero, que nos permite documentar que la práctica periodística sin perspectiva de género violenta los derechos humanos de las mujeres.</p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>On September 26, 2014, municipal police were involved in the disappearance of 43 students from the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. The mothers of the missing students were the first and main participants in the social movement labeled by the media as the Movement of the 43. Nevertheless, in the press discourse they were made invisible or relegated to traditionally established patriarchal roles, in accordance to the results of a Critical Discourse Analysis made of three local and state newspapers in circulation in the state of Guerrero, which allows us to document that journalistic practice without the perspective of gender violates the human rights of women.</p>

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