‘It will never be well with SARS’: A discourse analytic study of the #EndSARS protests on social media

IF 2.4 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
Sopuruchi Christian Aboh
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This paper analyses the discursive strategies used by #EndSARS protesters in their tweets and Facebook comments to construct SARS officers, hold the Nigerian government accountable and demand social change. Informed by social media critical discourse analysis (SMCDA) and social movement theory, the analysis revealed three strategies: constructing SARS as oppressors, representing the Nigerian government as insensitive and issuing a clarion call for action. The analysis shows that these strategies enabled the protesters to construct the victim-aggressor categorisation, thereby legitimising their resistance to police brutality and demand for change. The study also highlights how the protesters deployed local linguistic resources and ideologies to appeal to the emotions of other Nigerians to join the protest. The study demonstrates how digital political mobilisation can galvanise reform in Nigeria, where leaders and law enforcement agencies are held accountable for their (in)actions. This study contributes to the developing interdisciplinary studies on SMCDA and digital activism.
“SARS永远不会好”:对社交媒体上#EndSARS抗议活动的话语分析研究
本文分析了#EndSARS抗议者在推特和Facebook评论中使用的话语策略,以构建SARS官员,追究尼日利亚政府的责任,并要求社会变革。根据社会媒体批评话语分析(SMCDA)和社会运动理论,该分析揭示了三种策略:将SARS视为压迫者,将尼日利亚政府描述为麻木不知觉,并发出行动呼吁。分析表明,这些策略使抗议者能够构建受害者-侵略者的分类,从而使他们对警察暴行的抵抗和对变革的要求合法化。该研究还强调了抗议者如何利用当地的语言资源和意识形态来吸引其他尼日利亚人加入抗议活动。该研究展示了数字政治动员如何能够激发尼日利亚的改革,在尼日利亚,领导人和执法机构要对自己的行为负责。本研究有助于SMCDA与数字行动主义的跨学科研究的发展。
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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