scholarly journals NETWORK DISCOURSE AND THE RUSSIAN MAYOR: SHAPING A DIGITAL SOCIO-POLITICAL AGENDA IN SOCIAL NETWORKS (NETWORK AND LINGUISTIC DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS)

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-111
Author(s):  
Анастасия Юрьевна Сизоненко ◽  
Анна Александровна Гнедаш ◽  
Вероника Викторовна Катермина
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Empirical Base ◽  
The City

В эпоху социальных сетей и сетевого общества социально-политические акторы, в том числе и главы муниципальных образований (мэры городов), являются основными субъектами (по сравнению с традиционными СМИ) формирования цифровой социально-политической повестки дня в онлайн-пространстве. Современная цифровая социально-политическая повестка дня формируется двумя одновременными процессами в социальных сетях: во-первых, глава города создает социально-политический контент в ведущих социальных сетях; во-вторых, граждане дают обратную связь в виде ветки комментариев на данный контент. Как результат - происходит формирование связки цифровой социально-политической повестки дня (как сегмента онлайн-дискурса) и офлайн-реакции на данный дискурс (определенной и позиционированной социально-политической части) в виде конкретных конструктивных либо деструктивных реакций жителей городов современной России (не / поддерживающих власть на локальном уровне). Эмпирической базой данного исследования стал контент официальных аккаунтов (метод сплошной выборки постов, хештегов, фотографий и видео, а также всех комментариев) мэров российских городов в Instagram, ВКонтакте, Facebook, Twitter и Одноклассники согласно рейтингу Медиалогии за период 1 октября 2020 - 31 декабря 2020 г.: Анатолий Локоть, мэр г. Новосибирск, 4 место; Наталья Котова, мэр г. Челябинск, 5-е место; Иса Хаджимурадов, мэр г. Грозный, 79-е место; Юлия Рокотянская, мэр г. Рязань, 96-е место. В результате авторы статьи делают основные выводы, полученные в ходе исследования сетевого и лингводискурсивного анализа сетевых тематик данных аккаунтов, визуальной составляющей, а также комментариев как реакции пользователей на цифровую социально-политическую повестку дня и официальный дискурс в онлайн- и офлайн-пространствах. In the era of social networks and network society, socio-political actors, including heads of municipalities, are the main subjects in shaping digital socio-political agenda in the online space. The modern digital socio-political agenda is formed by two simultaneous processes in social networks: firstly, the head of the city creates socio-political content in leading social networks; secondly, citizens give feedback in the form of a comment thread on this content. As a result, a digital agenda is formed and an offline reaction to this discourse in the form of specific constructive or destructive reactions of residents of cities in modern Russia. The empirical base of this study was the content of official accounts (a method of continuous sampling of posts, hashtags, photos and videos, as well as all comments) of the mayors of Russian cities on Instagram, VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter and Odnoklassniki, according to the Medialogia rating for the period October 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020. As a result, the authors draw the conclusions obtained during the study of network and linguistic discursive analysis of network topics of the analyzed accounts, the visual component as well as comments as user reactions to this agenda and official discourse in online and offline spaces.

scholarly journals "CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS" AND "CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIA" DISCOURSES IN THE DIGITAL POLITICAL AGENDA OF 2020: AGITATION VS INHIBITION IN THE STATE MEDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-155
Author(s):  
Nataliya Ryabchenko ◽  
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Olga Malisheva ◽  
Inna Miroshnichenko ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Network Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Applied Study

The article presents the results of a large-scale applied study of “Constitutional Amendments” and “Coronavirus Pandemic” discourses as a part of the digital political agenda formed by the state media in 2020. The empirical dataset comprises an array of network data collected by the continuous sampling of news articles published by Interfax, RIA Novosti and TASS agencies on their official websites in 2020 within the March-September period.The obtained data was subjected to network analysis, visual analysis and linguo-discursive analysis. It allowed the authors to identify the dominant topics in the digital agenda created by the state media, determine the techniques used to form and manage the digital political agenda in the online space and assess their effectiveness. The article concludes by the description of the identified features, strategies and techniques used for shaping, maintaining and managing the digital political agenda by the state media regarding the analyzed discourses – "Constitutional Amendments" and "Coronavirus Pandemic". The authors infer that the strategy of pragmatic modeling was used for online agitation with the aim of ideological mobilization of citizens. Оnline-informing strategy was used to neutralize panic sentiment among citizens and form constructive civic behavioral patterns in the context of a pandemic and an internal lockdown.

Gentrification and neighborhood melancholy. Collective sadness and ambivalence in Dortmund’s Hörde district

2021 ◽  
pp. 147447402098725
Author(s):  
Susanne Frank
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Residential Area ◽  
Artificial Lake ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
The Core ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The City ◽  
The Phoenix

Since 2000, the City of Dortmund has pursued an ambitious flagship project in the district of Hoerde. On the enormous site of a former steel plant, and in the middle of an impoverished working class district, a large new upper-middle class residential area (Phoenix) has been developed around an artificial lake. Qualitative fieldwork suggests that the project has generated mixed feelings among longtime working class dwellers in the old part of Hoerde. Widespread enthusiasm about new lakeside living is interwoven with emotions of sadness and loss, reflecting a neighborhood transformation which unmistakably demonstrates their social, cultural, and political marginalization – feelings that were not allowed to become part of the jubilant official discourse which has marketed the Phoenix project as a shining example of the City’s successful post-industrial structural change. Ever since its announcement, the project has been blamed for triggering gentrification processes – despite the fact that there are still no empirical signs of rising rents or displacement. I argue that the concept of gentrification has been taken up so readily because it is popular, polyvalent, polemical, and critical, enabling citizens to find a language to denounce the blatant social inequalities and power imbalances that competitive urbanism has fostered in Dortmund. However, I also claim that the core of the prevailing sadness – the loss of the familiar neighborhood which could not be grieved over – remains under the radar of standard gentrification discourse. The article thus proposes neighborhood melancholy as a concept to account for the unclear, subconscious, and deeply ambivalent ways in which long-established residents experience their neighborhood’s transformation, expressed within the rubric of gentrification.

scholarly journals Contextualizing Security Innovation: Responsible Research and Innovation at the Smart Border?

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Klimburg-Witjes ◽  
Frederik C. Huettenrauch
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Responsible Research And Innovation ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Responsible Research

AbstractCurrent European innovation and security policies are increasingly channeled into efforts to address the assumed challenges that threaten European societies. A field in which this has become particularly salient is digitized EU border management. Here, the framework of responsible research and innovation (RRI) has recently been used to point to the alleged sensitivity of political actors towards the contingent dimensions of emerging security technologies. RRI, in general, is concerned with societal needs and the engagement and inclusion of various stakeholder groups in the research and innovation processes, aiming to anticipate undesired consequences of and identifying socially acceptable alternatives for emerging technologies. However, RRI has also been criticized as an industry-driven attempt to gain societal legitimacy for new technologies. In this article, we argue that while RRI evokes a space where different actors enter co-creative dialogues, it lays bare the specific challenges of governing security innovation in socially responsible ways. Empirically, we draw on the case study of BODEGA, the first EU funded research project to apply the RRI framework to the field of border security. We show how stakeholders involved in the project represent their work in relation to RRI and the resulting benefits and challenges they face. The paper argues that applying the framework to the field of (border) security lays bare its limitations, namely that RRI itself embodies a political agenda, conceals alternative experiences by those on whom security is enacted upon and that its key propositions of openness and transparency are hardly met in practice due to confidentiality agreements. Our hope is to contribute to work on RRI and emerging debates about how the concept can (or cannot) be contextualized for the field of security—a field that might be more in need than any other to consider the ethical dimension of its activities.

Volcanic risk communication challenges in the global south: the case of Goma, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blaise Mafuko Nyandwi ◽  
Matthieu Kervyn ◽  
François Muhashy Habiyaremye ◽  
François Kervyn ◽  
Caroline Michellier
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Democratic Republic Of Congo ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Volcanic Risk ◽  
Communication Challenges ◽  
The City ◽  
Risk Preparedness

<p>The city of Goma is located in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. With around one million inhabitants, it is built on lava flows, 15 km south of the active Nyiragongo volcano. Historically, the town was affected twice by eruptions, in 1977 and 2002 and severe destructions were reported. At that time, no volcanic risk preparedness and management tools had been implemented, and communication during and after the eruption was not consistent enough to avoid panic and human casualties. Without an appropriate and accurate risk communication, people may adopt a behavior which can put them at risk, by increasing their vulnerability. Nineteen years after the last disaster, risk management still have to develop an effective risk preparedness strategy and integrate risk awareness raising tools. The aim of this ongoing doctoral research is the assessment of risk culture, building upon a risk perception assessment and identification of risk reduction measures to be enhanced.</p><p>A survey of 2224 adults among the general population of Goma was conducted in eight representative neighborhoods in order to assess the risk perception, the experience of the risk communication as well as the risk preparedness of inhabitants. We here present a first analysis of the results regarding the risk communication challenges. Goma is a dynamic town with a young population (80% are under 45 years old), living in relatively poor and large family (51% of households have 4-7 members and 31% 8-11 members; 57% of household have an income between 0-250$), with rather low education (47% is secondary level and 34% graduated). Language is one of the volcanic risk communication challenges in Goma: apart from French as the official language, Swahili as local, and English imposed by the large humanitarian sector, there are many dialects. Moreover, most communication tools are informal (social networks, friends and relatives…) and inhabitants mostly look for information on religion (22%), health (15%) and politics (12%), but not so much about risk reduction. Local radio (24%), television (14,5%) and social networks (13%) are the most preferred information channels. The city of Goma is also very dynamic: with a high migration rate, the population is growing and renewing itself regularly, to the point that risk communication must take into account the newcomers in order to be efficient. Additionally, our survey shows that experience of disasters and trust in decision-makers also provide a basis for effective risk communication.</p><p>By presenting, as examples, the communication chain during the 2002 Nyiragongo eruption, as well as a more recent example of miscommunication due to the publication, in the general public press, of a scientific article with significant uncertainties in eruption forecast modelling (leading to misinterpretation by non-expert readers), we will demonstrate that the cascading reactions may have consequences putting risk decision-makers and scientists in a difficult position, by provoking a feeling of mistrust and doubt among the population. Based on the Goma case study, we will show that risk communication in the global south is a major risk management challenge with complex issues.</p>

scholarly journals graphic novel as a popular genre of book publishing in the context of modern design

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Oliinyk
Keyword(s):  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Synthetic Methods ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Visual Component ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Meta Level

The relevance of the research is due both to the lack of research that would comprehend a graphic novel as an independent phenomenon and subject of art history, the youth of the genre, and its relative non-proliferation in the Ukrainian literary space. The vast majority of Russian publications touch on the analysis of specific graphic novels in the context of modern literary studies, which focuses on the narrative and ideological components of individual works without taking into account the role of the visual component for the genre as a whole. Theoretical analysis and practical application of new synthetic methods and means of transmitting visual socio-cultural codes are of value not only in the context of design but also for other multimodal-oriented industries. The structural approach is the main approach to the study of this problem, which uses the methods of linguistics and semiotics, bringing them to the meta-level regarding design, as well as discursive analysis, in the subject field of which there is a question of the cultural and historical conditionality of a graphic novel as a genre and the nature of its perception. 

scholarly journals Islamisasi di Kota Surakarta dan Sekitarnya Masa Orde Baru: Sebuah Tinjauan Awal

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Adif Fahrizal
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
New Order ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The City

This article discusses the spread of Islam in the city and the neighborhood of Surakarta, Central Java during the New Order period. The spread of Islam took place through massive Islamic religious activities, such as mass prayer. In addition, the expansion of the number of mosques and mushola (Islamic praying sites) indicates a massive expansion of the influence of Islam in the region. Based on data from newspapers and interviews with relevant informants of the time, this article found out that the spread of Islam in Surakarta was a political agenda set up by the New Order government in order to counter the remnants of Communist ideology, which was withheld by sympathizers of the then Indonesian Communist Party. This article concludes that the massive spread of Islam shaped Surakarta, which had been known as the center of syncretic Javanese culture, to become religious and the government’s fear of Communism could be reduced. However, the process also made a sharp dichotomy between Islamist-based and Javanese-based identity of the city.

scholarly journals Pragmastilistic Analysis of Migration Discourse (Based on Speeches by British Politicians)

Discourse ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
V. N. Matveeva ◽  
N. V. Stepanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Local Elite ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

Introduction. The present study examines the pragmastilistic potential of migration discourse based on the speeches of modern British politicians. The relevance of the chosen topic lies in the acute social specifics of migration discourse and its manipulative component. In today’s world, migration processes have become global and their impact on the development of the host culture is becoming increasingly evident. There is still no established strategy for the integration of migrants into the new society, which creates a conflict environment and determines the hostility of the indigenous population towards migrants. Migration discourse as one of the directions of policy discourse becomes an effective tool for managing public opinion. Various persuasive tactics are incorporated in the speech of politicians using linguistic means, the use of which in the British migration discourse is considered in this article.Methodology and sources. The key tasks of the study are to identify specific discursive tactics, by means of which the persuasive strategy is implemented in the British migration discourse, and to analyze the stylistic techniques used to design the discovered tactics. During the study, pragmastilistic analysis was used, the application of which involves referring to the following methods of linguistic research: the method of continuous sampling, quantitative, descriptive and comparative methods, the method of stylistic analysis, discursive analysis. The material of the study was the speeches of modern British politicians from 2004 to 2021. Results and discussion. The analysis of migration discourse based on the texts of speeches by modern British politicians allows to talk about the stylistic saturation of the material and the main means of expressiveness used in the framework of the discourse under consideration. The main tactic of opponents of free migration is the comparison of “good/bad” migrants, which is actualized using antithesis. As for the lexical stylistic means, the use of the epithet should be specified, which is also a way of actualizing opposition tactics. Thus, this tactic is implemented both at the lexical and syntactic level. Similar tactics are also relevant in the framework of pro-migration rhetoric, namely, when comparing the local elite and the visiting population, which performs all the work necessary for the functioning of society. In most cases the main stylistic technique for tactics actualization is antithesis (or the convergence of antithesis and epithet). Proponents of pro-migration policies also use metaphor (tactics for describing the political process) and syntactic parallelism (tactics for describing the benefits of migration). Finally, the most common tactic inherent in both poles of migration discourse is the tactic of generalization. It consists in equating the speaker with his audience, their “fusion”, and is most often actualized using hyperbola.Conclusion. Migration discourse is characterized by an ideological orientation, which is actualized using certain speech techniques, tactics and strategies. Migration discourse, as a multifaceted entity, can also serve to harmonize social life by facilitating the integration of migrants into the host culture. Migration discourse is a powerful ideological weapon that can be used both to contribute to integration and to incite ethnic hatred. Stylistic tools play a key role in the implementation of a persuasive strategy, which is actively used both in migration and in political discourse in general. The main tactics of the migration discourse of modern British politicians are opposition and generalization, used both in pro- and anti-migration rhetoric. 

scholarly journals Identidades, estágio curricular e trabalho docente: Análise discursiva de depoimentos de licenciandas de uma Universidade Federal no Rio Grande do Sul

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Sandra Regina De Moura ◽  
Dóris Maria Luzzardi Fiss
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Public School System ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Teacher Formation ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Specific Stage ◽  
The City

This article analyzed, from the perspective of six graduates of the Course of Pedagogy (FACED / UFRGS), the effects of the obligatory curricular internship and its role in the formation of teaching identities. This qualitative research carried out in 2014 involved listening to the voices of graduates in the period of compulsory curricular traineeship in a municipal public school system located in the city of Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil). By means of a focal group, the authors addressed themes of stage and professional identity, concepts developed by Maurice Tardif and Danielle Raymond, António Nóvoa, Selma Garrido Pimenta and Maria Socorro Lima. Drawing on the discursive perspectives of Michel Pêcheux, and highlighting contributions offered by Eni Orlandi, the discourse analysis of the graduates’ speech produced several themes that influenced the formation of the graduates’ educational identities, including teaching as collaborative work, “human teaching”, and experiences of autonomy and transition, and that referred to the obligatory curricular stage as a space for learning, reflection about practice, and the space of praxis. In addition, six trainees perceived their internship as an experience that produced changes in their ways of thinking and becoming teachers. Thus, discursive analysis of internship graduates within the time and spaces of teacher formation may can contribute to other designs for schooling and education, considering the relevance of the dynamic conditions of dialogue at this specific stage. 

scholarly journals Contradictory use of computer technology in a modern network society

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-298
Author(s):  
Ye. М. Babosov
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
Internet Addiction ◽  
Network Society ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Culture Development

Ambivalence of constructive significance of social networks and negative ways of using them has been revealed. The fatality of long-term exposure and internet addiction to health, especially of children and adolescents, is characterized. Examples and typical features of committing internet hooliganism, cyber-fraud, cybercrime, blackmail of sexual nature, internet seduction of children and adolescents are presented. Attention to growing importance of formation of internet culture, development and improvement of legislative and legal provisions that toughen punishments for atrocities in cyberspace is drawn.

scholarly journals Lexical abbreviation in English texts of the Internet

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-132
Author(s):  
Nataliya V. Matveeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
Network Media ◽  
Vowel Deletion ◽  
Political Blog ◽  
Very High

This article investigates abbreviations in different Internet discourse types and genres. For the study, continuous sampling method was used to select 76 abbreviations in hypertexts from 7 Internet English-language sites. The selected units were classified into 3 basic types with further subdivisions: letter-number (figure-for-word, figure-for-word-part, contractions as a result of vowel deletion), graphical (both Latin and English) and lexical (acronyms, initialisms, shortening and partial shortening) abbreviations based on the classification adopted in this research. Among the subdivisions, abbreviations involving figures, initialisms and contractions turned out the most frequent. Most of them were found in social networks, blogs, chats and forums. Further, abbreviations were analyzed in 6 types of Internet discourse: legal, political, personal, mass media, advertising and pedagogical. Particular genres representing the types were studied: a business email, a law firm’s website, a political blog, an Instagram personal page, a network media web page, and an academic institution’s page. It was discovered that on the whole (among 57 examples), lexical abbreviations prevail over graphical ones (56% vs 44%). On the whole, 44% were graphical abbreviations, 28% – initialisms, 23% – acronyms and 5% – shortenings. However, in each discourse, the distribution demonstrated considerable variation. This means that the magnitude of the Internet discourse type effect is very high. Further studies are needed to enlarge the number of examples with the increase in the amount of genres and their samples to achieve better balance.

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