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“I know it's sensitive”: Internet censorship, recoding, and the sensitive word culture in China “我知道它很敏感”：网络审查、重新编码和中国的敏感词文化

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100666

WeiMing Ye , Luming Zhao

引用次数: 4

Othering as mediated soft-power practice: Chinese diplomatic communication of discourse about China-US trade war through the British press 另一种作为中介的软实力实践——从英国媒体看中美贸易战话语的中国外交传播

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2023.100669

Liping Tang

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引用次数: 0

A dialectical-relational approach to anti-trans sentiments on Hupu 虎扑反跨性别情绪的辩证关系研究

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100654

Altman Yuzhu Peng , Yu Sun

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引用次数: 3

TikTok and the translingual practices of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong TikTok和香港菲律宾家庭佣工的翻译实践

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100655

Ron Darvin

{"title":"TikTok and the translingual practices of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong","authors":"Ron Darvin","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100655","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100655","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Recognizing the immense popularity of TikTok among the over 200,000 Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong, this paper examines the translingual practices of these migrants from the Global South on a social media platform known for its act out memes, dance and lip-synch videos. Drawing on data from interviews and the multimodal discourse analysis of TikTok profiles, videos and captions, it pays particular attention to how recognizing these practices not as exotic or creative transgressions but as ordinary or normative (Agha, 2007) can enable a critical understanding of the lived experiences of these transnationals. Findings show that as they move across social media platforms and make linguistic and semiotic choices involving practical and material considerations, they perform moments of interaction or “small things” (Blommaert, 2019) online that are not unlike their mundane, offline counterparts. Moving across languages online is a way for users to negotiate multiple identities, position others, address diverse audiences, and signal group affiliations. By examining translingual interactions on social media as normative but negotiated across different orders of indexicality, this paper asserts that such reframing can draw attention to historical and material </span>inequalities and modes of exclusion online.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100655"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79016865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

‘Go home to the second wave!’: Discourses of trans inclusion and exclusion in a queer women’s online community “回到第二波浪潮中去吧!”:一个酷儿女性网络社区对跨性别者包容与排斥的讨论

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100656

Aimee Bailey

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引用次数: 0

Internet memes as knowledge practice in social movements: Rethinking Economics’ delegitimization of economists 网络模因作为社会运动中的知识实践:重新思考经济学家的非合法性

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100650

Tenna Foustad Harbo

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引用次数: 0

Identity performance and self-branding in social commerce: A multimodal content analysis of Chinese wanghong women’s video-sharing practice on TikTok 社交商务中的身份表现与自我品牌:中国网红女性TikTok视频分享实践的多模态内容分析

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100652

Yilei Wang , Dezheng (William) Feng

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引用次数: 5

Mask communication: The development of the face covering as a semiotic resource through government public health posters in England and Wales 面罩传播:英格兰和威尔士政府公共卫生海报中面罩作为一种符号资源的发展

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100651

Angela Smith , Michael Higgins

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引用次数: 0

Translingual online identities in the global South: The construction of local ‘gang cultures’ in the social media spaces of Balkan and South Korean artists 全球南方的翻译语言网络身份:巴尔干和韩国艺术家的社交媒体空间中当地“帮派文化”的建构

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100653

Eldin Milak , Ana Tankosić

引用次数: 2

Men of today, soyboys of tomorrow: Constructions of masculinities in YouTube responses to Gillette’s The Best Men Can Be 今天的男人，明天的男孩:YouTube上对吉列《最好的男人》的回应中男性气概的建构

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100628

Mandie Iveson , Federica Formato

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引用次数: 4