Intentional space of post-event discourse at family Internet forums

Author(s):  
И. А. Зачесова ◽  
П. П. Кулакова
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Piotr Michoń

AbstractThe need for qualitative research of deservingness perception is strongly emphasised in the literature. This article studies the perception of deservingness for a "Family 500 +"—cash benefit in Poland. For the first time, data from online forums was used in the studies of deservingness and welfare attitudes. It allowed to avoid numerous limitations associated with social surveys. The qualitative analysis showed how participants of Internet debates perceive the criteria of deservingness: control, attitude, reciprocity, identity, need, and what are the relations between the criteria. The impurity of all deservingness criteria was indicated and a new criterion “adequacy” was proposed. Moreover due to the fact that the study concerned a concrete, non-abstract family cash benefit addressed the relationship between the perceived deservingness of children and their parents was pointed out. The vast majority of posts on Internet forums referred to deservingness of parents, not children. This is particularly evident in relation to the criteria of control and reciprocity. Presenting the hypothesis of jealousy and scapegoat strategy, the article also shows the direction of future research on deservingness.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1330-1333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Palosse-Cantaloube ◽  
Isabelle Lacroix ◽  
Vanessa Rousseau ◽  
Haleh Bagheri ◽  
Jean-Louis Montastruc ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-301
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Liao Siling ◽  
Katie Truss ◽  
Lisa Philips ◽  
Oliver Eastwood ◽  
Sarah Bendall

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renat Shaykhutdinov

Abstract How are the human rights pertaining to the freedom of conscience/religion, health, and distinct culture intersect in the context of a global pandemic in the Muslim-minority areas? How do Russia’s Muslims make sense of the challenges to those rights caused or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic? In this paper, I focus on diverse Muslim Tatar communities, primarily of the Middle Volga region, who have recently witnessed numerous political and socioeconomic challenges infringing on their human rights. Attending on the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, in this paper I gauge the nature of human rights in the areas of health and religion by interrogating how the general Muslim publics and elites understand, justify, and explain those challenges in an environment of creeping authoritarianism. I call for a conceptual shift from the elite-driven traditional security perspectives to those of human rights as quotidian/everyday experiences while considering these vital issues. I use the Tatar-language Internet forums for the empirical analysis, offering and delineating the discursive repertoires and categorizing the areas of public concern in the new pandemic world.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Szczepanik

Refugee or "Newcomer". Dispute over the Word: About the Artistic Project "Nowacy" ("Newcomers") by Jana Shostak in the Context of the Construction of Meaning and the Migration CrisisThe artistic diploma project of Jana Shostak, a Polish student from Belarus, assumed the introduction of the word “nowak” (newcomer) into the Polish language as an alternative to the negative term “refugee.” This initiative becomes particularly important in the context of the migration crisis, going beyond the safe sphere of art. The methods of presenting it, both by the artist and by the media, in the form of interviews, press articles and comments on internet forums, were analyzed. The article is an attempt to make a meta-interpretation of this artistic proposal from the perspective of critical cultural studies, emphasizing two main areas: culture as a battlefield and language as a tool of constructing meaning. Methodologically, it is also supported by relativistic linguistic theories, the paradigm of symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, the concept of engaged aesthetics and critical theory. Uchodźca, czyli „nowak”. Spór o słowo. O projekcie artystycznym  „Nowacy” Jany Shostak w kotekście konstruowania znaczeń i kryzysu migracyjnegoArtystyczny projekt dyplomowy Jany Shostak zakłada wprowadzenie do języka polskiego słowa „nowak” jako alternatywy dla negatywnie nacechowanego określenia „uchodźca”. Inicjatywa ta nabiera szczególnego znaczenia w kontekście kryzysu migracyjnego, wykraczając poza bezpieczną sferę sztuki. Analizie poddane zostały sposoby jej prezentowania zarówno przez artystkę, jak i przez media, w postaci wywiadów, artykułów prasowych oraz wypowiedzi na forach internetowych. Artykuł jest próbą dokonania meta-interpretacji tej propozycji artystycznej z perspektywy kulturoznawstwa krytycznego z postawieniem akcentu na dwa zasadnicze obszary: kultury jako pola walki oraz języka jako narzędzia konstruującego znaczenie. Metodologicznie wspiera się również relatywistycznymi teoriami lingwistycznymi, paradygmatem interakcjonizmu symbolicznego, etnometodologią, oraz koncepcją estetyki zaangażowanej i teorią krytyczną.


Author(s):  
Aija Staffans ◽  
Heli Rantanen ◽  
Pilvi Nummi

The Internet is shaking up the expertise and production of knowledge in the planning institution. Digital citizens are searching for information from different places, combining formal and informal sources without apology, and are debating and speaking out on matters. Public planning organisations will be fully stretched to adapt their practices and services to meet these demands. This chapter will present the research results of a project that embarked on gathering and combining local information and knowledge on urban planning on Internet forums. Interactive applications were also developed for these forums to support public participation in ongoing land use planning and development projects in the City of Espoo, Finland. The research results demonstrate how fragmented local, place-based knowledge is, how difficult it is to combine informal and formal information in urban planning, and how inaccessible public data systems still are.


Author(s):  
Erez C. Miller ◽  
Amos Fleischmann

The use of medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been strongly debated because medications may alter the individual’s sense of authenticity. This chapter examines online forums that include young people’s experiences with ADHD medications, their sense of control over medication use, and the drugs’ effects on their sense of authenticity. It discusses the analysis of four Internet forums dedicated to ADHD issues using an ethnographic-discursive approach, and demonstrates that the results suggest there are two types of competing narratives—those of the young people, who express doubts about taking medications due to their effect on various psychological characteristics and especially on their sense of authenticity, and those of professionals, who uphold the medical perspective that regardless of the medications’ effects they are still the best option for treating ADHD. It covers how the clash between these two competing narratives resonates a more general struggle of people with disabilities for their rights. Finally, it discusses how social media echoes the struggle between individuals with disabilities and the establishment’s view of ADHD as a medical condition which should be treated accordingly, even at the cost of losing the individual’s authenticity.


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