scholarly journals The colour-line of journalism

Author(s):  
Camilla Dindler ◽  
Bolette B. Blaagaard

This article argues that Danish journalistic boundary producing practices and principles uphold a representation of racial disparity. Based on critical theories of race and racism in journalism and a boundary work framework, we conduct a discursive analysis of two collective case studies that encompass 56 articles and 23 Facebook posts. Focusing mainly on 1) the construction of knowledge about potential racism, 2) who are positioned as authorities on the topic of racism, and 3) who are missing among the potential actors in the stories, we identify meta-journalistic discourses and the (re)establishment of journalistic principles and practices. We conclude that journalistic norms and practices, for now, withstand the challenges posed by minority media’s call for the recognition of race as structure by applying discursive strategies of firstly rejecting racism as structure and secondly asserting principles and practices of specific kinds of objectivity, utilising, for instance, elite sources.

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 441-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory Barker

Launched in 2013, Amazon Studios’s Pilot Season reportedly offers an alternative to the conventional Hollywood development cycle by soliciting viewer feedback through short surveys and star reviews to determine which projects are developed into original series. However, while Amazon Studios publicly assures us that viewers “Call the Shots,” the company has swiftly navigated away from such participatory discourse. Through a discursive analysis of promotional materials, executive and talent interviews, and responses from trade presses and critics, this article unpacks how Amazon Studios diminished the import of viewer feedback at the first sign of significant attention from the critical community and subsequently shifted to promotional discourses centered on markers of “Quality TV.” This case ultimately demonstrates that, as discursive strategies, participatory culture and Quality TV serve distinctive functions for the industry, with the former often relegated to attention-seeking gimmick and the latter functioning as a powerful tool of legitimation.


2020 ◽  
pp. e1-e8
Author(s):  
Michael Harvey

The “political economy of health” is concerned with how political and economic domains interact and shape individual and population health outcomes. However, the term is variously defined in the public health, medical, and social science literatures. This could result in confusion about the term and its associated tradition, thereby constituting a barrier to its application in public health research and practice. To address these issues, I survey the political economy of health tradition, clarify its specifically Marxian theoretical legacy, and discuss its relevance to understanding and addressing public health issues. I conclude by discussing the benefits of employing critical theories of race and racism with Marxian political economy to better understand the roles of class exploitation and racial oppression in epidemiological patterning. (Am J Public Health. Published online ahead of print December 22, 2020:e1–e8. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305996 )


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 667-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hutchby

Abstract This article explores how the mediatisation of politics is evolving by analysing the different ways in which three political “gaffes” in recent British politics have been configured by the media environment. The article draws on theories suggesting that contemporary political action is enveloped by media scrutiny and the technological forms of mediation are diversified and hybridised rather than concentrated and uniform. Using case studies, the analysis examines the varying ways in which the broadcast interview can be part of a wider ecology of media technologies that afford an expanding range of discursive strategies for the negative construal of political actions.


Fascism ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-345
Author(s):  
Liam Liburd ◽  
Paul Jackson

Abstract The drive to decolonise is of central importance to the study of fascism, which after all was and remains a politics rooted in specific conceptions of colonialism and race. In this article, we have invited both leading academics and early career scholars to reflect on how we might ‘decolonise’ fascist studies. Their comments approach fascism in a range of contexts, and offer reflections on how to frame future research questions, approach methodological issues, and consider how fascism studies might develop a more overt and clear stance on the problems posed by decolonising the subject area more broadly. It is hoped that these commentaries will enrich the field of fascist studies and, in turn, do more to relate it to the work of scholars in other relevant areas of study, particularly those working on critical theories of race and racism. Contributors to this debate are: Leslie James, Raul Carstocea, Daniel Hedinger, Liam J. Liburd, Cathy Bergin, Benjamin Bland, Evan Smith, Jonathan Hyslop, Benjamin Zachariah, and Caroline Campbell.


2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Lúcia de A. L. Coelho ◽  
Christiane K. Godoi

O discurso da sustentabilidade imiscuiu-se no jargão dos negócios e tornou-se uma palavra de ordem no âmbito organizacional. Percebe-se que a mídia também ampliou a atenção, cujos protestos e causas ambientais realizados por meio da mídia passam a ser notícias de destaque. Norteado por fundamentos da análise sociológica do discurso, o objetivo desse estudo foi analisar a coerência entre as estratégias discursivas sobre sustentabilidade, extraídas dos Relatórios de Sustentabilidade (RS) de empresas de capital aberto com ações listadas na Bolsa de Valores de São Paulo, e as práticas ambientais dessas empresas relatadas no discurso midiático. No interior dos RS, além da análise discursiva de elementos norteadores da estratégia organizacional (discursos sobre missão, visão, princípios, crenças e valores), o estudo analisou outros trechos que forneceram o contexto para a interpretação discursiva. Em contraposição ao discurso institucional, foram analisadas as práticas dessas empresas relatadas pelo discurso midiático - jornais e revistas de grande circulação no país. Evidenciaram-se diversas incoerências entre os princípios norteadores das empresas e o discurso midiático. Observou-se que os padrões e funções discursivos transmitidos pelos RS, buscando uma imagem de empresa sustentável, operam de forma ideológica, procurando legitimidade por meio da repetição. Os RS apresentam-se como discursos prescritivos propondo regras de conduta e emitindo conselhos. Trata-se de discursos brilhantes na forma, acompanhados de símbolos e pobres de idéias, no sentido pejorativo da retórica. O estudo instiga reflexões acerca do accountability institucional e midiático e entre as contradições presentes no discurso e na prática institucional no que tange à sustentabilidade. Palavras-chave:Estratégias discursivas; padrões e funções discursivos; accountability; relatório de sustentabilidade. ABSTRACT Sustainability discourse has blended in business jargon becoming a watchword in organizational field. The media has also increased attention, whose protests and environmental causes have become prominent. This study examines the coherence between discursive strategies on sustainability, extracted from Sustainability Reports (SRs) of companies listed on the Brazilian Stock Exchange – BM&FBOVESPA, and environmental practices of these companies reported in media discourse. Discursive analysis of the guiding elements of organizational strategy (mission, vision, principles, beliefs and values discourses) within the SRs and media discourses – wide circulation newspapers and magazines in Brazil were contrasted and analyzed. The results showed several inconsistencies between institutional and media discourses. Discursive patterns and functions provided by the SRs operate ideologically and seek legitimacy through repetition. SRs presented prescriptive discourses and proposed rules of conduct and advices. The institutional discourses are brilliant in form and poor in ideas. This article contributes in order to reflect on institutional and media accountability and contradictions present both in discourse and institutional practices in regard to company sustainability. Keywords: discursive strategies; institutional and media discourses; accountability; Sustainability Report (SR).


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith L. Green ◽  
W. Douglas Baker ◽  
Monaliza Maximo Chian ◽  
Carmen Vanderhoof ◽  
LeeAnna Hooper ◽  
...  

This review presents theoretical underpinnings supporting microethnographic-discourse analytic (ME/DA) approaches to studying educational phenomena. The review is presented in two parts. Part 1 provides an analytic review of two seminal reviews of literature that frame theoretical and methodological developments of microethnography and functions language in classrooms with diverse learners. Part 2 presents two telling case studies that illustrate the logic-of-inquiry of (ME/DA) approaches. These telling case studies make transparent how theoretical considerations of cultural perspectives on education inform decisions regarding research methodology. Telling Case Study 1 makes transparent the logic-of-inquiry undertaken to illustrate how microanalyses of discourse and action among participants in a physics class provided an empirical grounding for identifying how different groups undertook a common task. This case study shows how ethnographically informed discourse analyses formed a foundation to theoretically identify social processes of knowledge construction. Telling Case Study 2 makes transparent multiple levels of analysis undertaken to examine ways that creative processes of interpretation of art were communicated and taken up in an art studio class across multiple cycles of activity. Taken together, these telling case studies provide evidence of how ME/DA provides a theoretically grounded logic-of-inquiry for investigating complex learning processes in different educational contexts.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Natália Penitente Andrade ◽  
Aline Santos de Brito Nascimento

Este artigo estuda a imagem de língua que circula em uma dissertação de mestrado realizada em uma universidade portuguesa, sobre a variação linguística em Angola. A questão norteadora é: Quais são as imagens de língua enunciadas na dissertação sobre a Língua Portuguesa em Angola? Diante disso, pretendeu-se investigar quais são as escolhas lexicais usadas para caracterizá-la, observando, desta forma, as estratégias textuais e discursivas que contribuem para a construção e disseminação de determinadas imagens de língua. Foram mobilizados, como aparato teórico, dentre outros estudos, Pêcheux (1997), acerca das formações imaginárias; Bronckart (2009), sobre as modalizações linguísticas; e Osakabe (1999), no que se refere à enunciação do sujeito. Realizou-se um levantamento de dados a partir de uma dissertação de mestrado como corpus de análise disponibilizada no repositório de uma universidade portuguesa. Constatou-se que o predomínio de determinada língua, no caso a Língua Portuguesa falada em Angola, estabelece uma hegemonia e consequentemente desigualdades, e isto implica ideologias linguísticas associadas a posicionamentos dentro de um campo social. Também a imagem que se constrói, diante da análise no texto acadêmico, é de que o domínio da Língua Portuguesa, em contraposição às línguas faladas em Angola, é um aspecto de ascensão social determinado por meio de instâncias regulamentadoras. Também foi identificada uma polarização entre língua(s) nacional(is) e língua portuguesa, bem como a unificação da língua e sua imposição.Palavras-chave: Análise do discurso; Formações imaginárias; Modalização; Língua Portuguesa. ABSTRACT: This article studies the image of the language that circulates in a master's dissertation held at a Portuguese university, about linguistic variation in Angola. The guiding question is: What are the language images enunciated in the dissertation on the Portuguese Language in Angola? In view of this, it was intended to investigate the lexical choices used to characterize it, thus observing the textual and discursive strategies that contribute to the construction and dissemination of certain language images. Pêcheux (1997), about imaginary formations; Bronckart (2009), on linguistic modalizations; and Osakabe (1999), regarding the enunciation of the subject was mobilized, as a theoretical apparatus, among other studies. Data were collected from a master's dissertation as a corpus of analysis available in the repository of a Portuguese university. It was found that the predominance of a given language, in the case of the Portuguese language spoken in Angola, establishes hegemony and consequently inequalities, and this implies linguistic ideologies associated with positions within a social field. Also the image that is constructed, in the face of the analysis in the academic text, is that the domain of the Portuguese Language, in contrast with the languages spoken in Angola, is an aspect of social ascension determined by means of regulatory bodies. A polarization between national language(s) and Portuguese language was also identified, as well as the unification of the language and its imposition.Keywords: Discourse analysis; Imaginary formations; Modulations; Portuguese Language.


Author(s):  
Albert Guziak

The aim of this article is to find out what the status of English, currently the primary working language within the EU institutions, might look like once the United Kingdom leaves the EU structures. To that end, this paper will analyse a selection of press articles. Although the manner in which the so-called Brexit will take place is still uncertain, a diverse range of opinions and prognostications on what will happen to English is being expressed publicly, taking into consideration many factors (political, sociological and purely linguistic) which may contribute to a possible scenario or scenarios. This article does not lay claim to submitting any firm or reliable vision of the future as none such exists elsewhere. This paper intends to analyze some discursive strategies employed by the authors of the articles to place the discussed subject into a discursive framework by using tools of critical discourse analysis which mainly focus on the relation of power and language.


Author(s):  
Kathleen Gallagher

The aim of this paper is to provide a discursive analysis of the phenomenon of squatting in Nepal. The paper begins by charting the concept of discourse from its inception as an analytic framework in Bakhtin’s theory of discourse to more recent application in tracking regimes of power, including international developments. The paper then examines the discourse of representation and praxis characterizing government and urban planning approaches to squatting in Nepal, followed by two case studies conducted in Chapagaun that illustrate the manner in which power circulates in a Nepali squatter settlement as well as in the lives of individual squatters. The paper concludes by arguing that the resources which fuel the praxis of squatting (e.g. finances, political connections and knowledge) often exclude the very people most in need of land and housing through disarticulation, or the omission of local voices.Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.4(1) 2016: 3-18


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