scholarly journals The Neoliberalization of Sleep

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 105-121
Author(s):  
Tina Sikka
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Productive Worker ◽  
Potential Profit

This article explores the implications of sleep apps which are sociologically significant in that they represent an attempt to colonize, exploit, and make profitable one of the last vestiges of the human lifeworld through discourses of self-subjectification, authenticity, and self-improvement. I assess the websites of two sleep tracking apps (Pillow and Sleep Score) using critical discourse analysis (CDA), new materialism, and autoethnography. I make the case that the neoliberal values associated with the use of these apps perpetuate the logic that a better sleep makes for a more productive worker, better citizen, and ideal consumer subject. I also demonstrate how these apps function to open new sites of potential profit and reproduce a form of embodied neoliberal subjectivity generated by intra-active entanglements between identities, technologies, and discourses. Finally, I take up the issue of marginalization and intersecting subject positions as it relates to inequalities that these sleep trackers might exacerbate.

scholarly journals Gender Representation in EFL Textbooks in Saudi Arabia: A Fair Deal?

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amjjad Sulaimani
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
International English

This study explores gender representation in an international English as a Foreign Language (EFL) textbook that has been specifically adapted for the Saudi Arabian context. It aims to investigate gender frequencies in conversations in three dimensions: gender relations, subject positions, and contents. The quantitative data were analysed using critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a model. The results indicate that the textbook is biased in terms of gender. Women are underrepresented in the textbook. They have been totally excluded from half of the units in the textbook. Also, the equal relations between the two genders are limited to friendship. Although both genders are positioned in the same subjects and contents, women are less frequently characterised than men.

Get That S.O.B. Off the Field: A Critical Discourse Analysis of NFL Team Owners’ Responses to President Trump’s Comments About Athlete Protests

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-300
Author(s):  
Kerry R. McGannon ◽  
Ted M. Butryn
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Language Use ◽  
National Football League ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Media Spectacle ◽  
The Subject

In this study, scholarship was extended on the cultural meanings of race and athlete activism by interrogating one key media spectacle surrounding athlete protests: President Trump’s 2017 speech questioning the National Football League (NFL) players’ character, with a focus on NFL owners’ responses. The NFL owners’ statements (n = 32) were subjected to critical discourse analysis. Discourses of post-racial nationalism and functionalism and the subject positions of “good player citizen” and “benevolent facilitator” (re)created meanings of the protests devoid of racial politics, linked to ideologies of color blindness, meritocracy, and diversity. These discourses and subject positions allowed the NFL owners to control protest meanings to maintain White privilege and appeal to their White fan base. These findings expand research on color-blind racism in sport, which perpetuates neoliberal ideals and the myth of a post-racial America, via taken-for-granted language use within discourses.

scholarly journals Failed Refugee Claimants: Negotiating Rights, Security and Citizenship

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanas Njeru
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
The Government

Individuals and groups engage discursively in relationships and negotiations as they try to structure and influence the social space where they live. This engagement further constructs the social space through the use of concepts, objects and subject positions. This study examines the representation and construction of failed refugee claimants by the Canadian newsprint media. Through the use of the moral panic as envisioned by Stephen Cohen and others, the study employs critical discourse analysis to reveal complex struggles in the Canadian refugee system through the discursive activity of the government, nonprofit agencies and social networks. The study concludes that a moral panic has occurred in the Canadian refugee system and has resulted in the enactment of a new Canadian refugee system through the passing of the Balanced Refugee Reform Act Bill C-11), Protecting Canada’s Immigration Act (Bill C-31) and the Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act (Bill C-43).

We can(’t) do this

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 671-697 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Griebel ◽  
Erik Vollmann
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Discursive Space ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
German Newspapers

Abstract Migration has been a defining topic in the discourse in Germany since the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015. This corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis systematically reconstructs the discourse about migration in two influential German newspapers, thereby emphasizing the construction of different subject positions for people migrating to Germany. Mass media are an important arena for the fight for hegemony between discursive coalitions of culturalization regimes that are based on openness and closure respectively. The discursive space of the German discourse about migration offers multiple opportunities in this regard. In the left-leaning taz, we detect a general trend to support an open society although some (but often contested) elements of closure are detected in this medium as well. Die Welt leans much more towards closure and the problematization of migration although it also offers a diverse array of interpellations that depend on the usefulness or threating character of people coming to Germany.

scholarly journals Critical discourse analysis as an analytical resource for cultural studies: exploring the discursive construction of subject positions in British men's magazines' problem pages

2006 ◽  
pp. 83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo de Gregorio Godeo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Men's Magazines

In operating with quite an abstract approach to 'discourse', cultural studies has hardly engaged in detailed textual analyses examining the role of language and discourse in the constitution of cultural processes. By focusing on an area of concern for contemporary cultural studies such as the discursive construction of subject positions, this paper casts light on the instrumental role that critical discourse analysis (henceforth CDA) may play as an analytical resource for cultural studies. In particular, we highlight how detailed textual analyses undertaken by CDA may contribute to deciphering the role of language and discourse in the articulation of cultural practices of identity representation and construction in media discourse. After revising the coincidences on the agendas of CDA and cultural studies, a case study follows exploring the discursive construction of such a subject position on masculinity as the so- called 'new man' in a sample from men's magazines' problem pages as a characteristic popular-culture genre in contemporary Britain. Our analysis substantiates the validity of Fairclough's CDA framework for disentangling the mechanisms of identity construction in this genre of present-day media discourse in the UK.

Constructing women’s heart health and risk: A critical discourse analysis of cardiovascular disease portrayals on Facebook by a US non-profit organization

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (13-14) ◽  
pp. 2317-2327
Author(s):  
Christine A Gonsalves ◽  
Kerry R McGannon
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease Risk ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
The Us

Women’s cardiovascular disease portrayals were explored on Facebook by the US non-profit organization Women’s Heart Alliance and public users in February 2017. Portrayals were explored using critical discourse analysis which also identified subject positions. Women’s cardiovascular disease was constructed within two central discourses: achieving health equity and healthism, with the following subject positions: altruistic fighters, health activists, and compliant patients and consumers. These findings affirmed and resisted problematic forms of cardiovascular disease risk reduction. Recommendations are made using discursive resources and subject positions within social media forms as concrete entry points of resistance and change to raise women’s cardiovascular disease awareness.

scholarly journals Failed Refugee Claimants: Negotiating Rights, Security and Citizenship

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanas Njeru
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Refugee Claimants ◽  
The Government

Individuals and groups engage discursively in relationships and negotiations as they try to structure and influence the social space where they live. This engagement further constructs the social space through the use of concepts, objects and subject positions. This study examines the representation and construction of failed refugee claimants by the Canadian newsprint media. Through the use of the moral panic as envisioned by Stephen Cohen and others, the study employs critical discourse analysis to reveal complex struggles in the Canadian refugee system through the discursive activity of the government, nonprofit agencies and social networks. The study concludes that a moral panic has occurred in the Canadian refugee system and has resulted in the enactment of a new Canadian refugee system through the passing of the Balanced Refugee Reform Act Bill C-11), Protecting Canada’s Immigration Act (Bill C-31) and the Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act (Bill C-43).

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