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{"title":"Discourses of social media amongst youth: An ethnographic perspective","authors":"Christian Ilbury","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100625","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent large-scale surveys of social media have repeatedly shown that Facebook and Twitter are losing popularity amongst teenagers, with newer ‘image-first’ apps such as Snapchat and Instagram becoming preferred amongst this demographic. Whilst there is a wealth of research which has examined more general reasons for this shift, it is unclear to what extent these explanations can account for more local level user practices. This article interrogates these issues by taking an ethnographic approach to examine prevalent discourses of social media amongst young people in an East London youth group. Specifically, I explore the ways in which social media apps and platforms are discursively represented by the young people with reference to their everyday lives. This leads me to argue that whilst some of their practices can be accounted for by broader trends of social media use, issues that reflect the lived realities of the young people (e.g., crime, social networks) equally influence their engagements with different platforms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100625"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211695822000484/pdfft?md5=b5ffeb8052963af13856e0d451e4420c&pid=1-s2.0-S2211695822000484-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91747641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Authenticating discourses of “being oneself” on monetary-motivated livestreams","authors":"Chi-hua Hsiao","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100592","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100592","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>On Chinese monetary-motivated live broadcasts, during which streamers present a variety of activities such as musical and artistic skills to solicit financial contributions from online viewers, streamers’ personal authenticity is a major factor influencing viewer donations and user engagement. Through an ethnographic approach to collect data from livestream channels at the Taiwan-based livestreaming platform, Lang Live, this article examines the authenticating discourses streamers engage to demonstrate that they are being their true selves rather than performing contrived theatrics in order to attract viewers. Specifically, I explore how authenticating discourses are conducted, co-constructed, and negotiated by considering factors including the platform-specific features, streamers’ self-expression, and viewer responses. I propose a specific meaning of personal authenticity emerging from users’ dynamic interactions, discuss viewers’ reasoning behind it, and explore how these perceptions of personal authenticity are linked to Lang Live’s communicative affordances and monetary system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100592"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80011709","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}

{"title":"Am I trolling?: A CA-informed approach to Gangjing in a Chinese online forum","authors":"Jie Xia,&nbsp;Ping Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100609","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100609","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Because digital affordances of the Internet have provided spaces for linguistic creativity, a large number of popular terms derive from the Internet. Analyses of these forms serve as a lens through which essential aspects of social realities can be analyzed. This study focuses on the use of a trolling label <em>Gangjing</em> popularized in Chinese digital interaction. Collecting data from interactional threads in Baidu Post Bar, the CA-informed study investigates what communicative actions netizens perform in using the term and what responsive behaviors it triggers. Pragmatic notions such as identity construction and relational acts are adopted to interpret its use. Results show that <em>Gangjing</em> is used to show disagreements, delegitimize others as irrational participants, express negative emotional stances, and invite people for entertainment. Different responsive behaviors, including resisting, criticizing, mocking, attacking, and playing, are triggered. Overall, the creative trolling label can function as an interactional resource accomplishing interpersonal functions. By nuanced analyses of the dynamics of a popular reference term rooted in Chinese language and culture, the study adds to the current interactional approach to creative language use in online communication while providing new insight on interpretations of online trolling discourse.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100609"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81114427","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}

{"title":"Telecosteño: Constructing a linguistic imaginary in popular Colombian soap operas","authors":"Padraic Michael Quinn","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100604","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Linguistically, Colombia is divided into two macrovarieties of Spanish: <em>cachaco</em> (interior of the country) and <em>costeño</em> (from the coastal regions). This linguistic dichotomy can also be extended to the cultural ambit, with costeño varieties being negatively perceived in the Colombian sociolinguistic imaginary, which is in turn reflected in popular folk discourse on language. Thus, the present article explores how authenticity of the costeño macrodialect is constructed in Colombian <em>telenovelas</em> ‘soap operas’, examining the significance of the language ideologies behind these constructions.</p><p>Data is presented from a corpus of popular telenovelas, with findings showing that the depiction of this diverse macro-variety is often ‘exaggerated’ or ‘inauthentic’, supporting popular suggestions of misrepresentation, as well as previous findings on a cachaco narration of the Other. Importantly, this reflects wider sentiment toward costeño varieties in terms of how deeply engrained language ideologies are manifested within the country, shedding light on the social structures behind these ideologies, contributing to studies on the role of popular media in constructing and perpetuating ideologies on variation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100604"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211695822000277/pdfft?md5=a476bcdccc4341aa3a9e776cec186400&pid=1-s2.0-S2211695822000277-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91684919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“In these pandemic times”: The role of temporal meanings in ambient affiliation about COVID-19 on Twitter","authors":"Michele Zappavigna ,&nbsp;Shoshana Dreyfus","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100595","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the role of a particular set of commonly occurring temporal meanings relating to the shared experience of being in a pandemic (e.g.,<!--> <em>in these unprecedented times</em>) and how these foster ambient affiliation on Twitter. Temporal meanings can be realised as a range of grammatical structures in texts and are linguistic resources that add meaning – in terms of dimensions such as manner, time, or place –<!--> <!-->to<!--> <!-->the main activities, entities or events in a clause. While often viewed in terms of their role in how experience is represented, we suggest they play a<!--> <!-->pivotal interpersonal role in how values are positioned and how social bonds are offered to ambient audiences. The paper<!--> <!-->also<!--> <!-->draws on communing affiliation, a system in the ambient affiliation framework for understanding how people share and contest values in social media environments, to show how these temporal meanings are functioning. Corpus-based discourse analysis of the contribution of<!--> <!-->temporal meanings to communing affiliation in<!--> <!-->a large of corpus of COVID-19 tweets was undertaken. Three major affiliation strategies that these temporal meanings were involved in were observed: <span>centring</span> in the service of <span>convoking</span> affiliation, <span>contrasting</span> in the service of <span>finessing</span> affiliation<span>,</span> and <span>accentuating</span> in the service of <span>promoting</span> affiliation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100595"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9733436/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10414005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Telecosteño: Constructing a linguistic imaginary in popular Colombian soap operas","authors":"Padraic Michael Quinn","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88305399","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}

{"title":"‘My countrymen have never disappointed me’: Politics of service in Modi’s speeches during Covid-19","authors":"Rahul Sambaraju","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100594","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100594","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper I study discursive practices of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to the pandemic, political leadership across the globe had to take tough decisions such as restrictions on the social and personal lives of individuals. This meant addressing concerns over ensuring compliance with these restrictions. I examine how Modi managed these concerns in his communication with the Indian polity over TV and radio broadcasts. I do so in instances where Modi gave specific instructions about following restrictions or other COVID appropriate behaviours. Using discourse analysis, I analyse data from two prominent ways of communicating in the pandemic, Mann Ki Baat and addresses to the nation. Analyses show that Modi developed two sets of non-electoral relations across his communication, which treated compliance as normatively expected: a) between Modi and Indians and b) among Indians themselves. These relations made way for treating audiences as those who are in specific social roles where duty and service were normative. Instructions and their compliance were embedded in these roles and treated as expected and consequently moral acts. Modi’s discursive practices worked to perform a politics of service and duty, where compliance is ultimately treated as expected service.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100594"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9733435/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10414006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogyny on Twitter via #NotAllMen","authors":"Lucy Jones,&nbsp;Małgorzata Chałupnik,&nbsp;Jai Mackenzie,&nbsp;Louise Mullany","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100596","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100596","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with a qualitative analysis of #NotAllMen users’ discursive strategies. This particular iteration of #NotAllMen followed the disappearance and subsequent rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a 33 year old white woman who was abducted from a street in London, UK, whilst walking home. Following a keyword analysis (Scott 1997) to survey a dataset of 18,701 tweets containing the hashtag #NotAllMen, we identify salient themes in a sub-set of keyword concordances, and produce a detailed qualitative analysis of the strategies deployed in ten randomly sampled tweets. Despite #NotAllMen initally being used as a statement of protest against supposedly unfair accusations levelled at ‘all’ men, our analysis illustrates the use of resistant and empowering strategies which challenge the misogyny of this message, re-framing the hashtag and thus acting as a form of resistance to its original message: that not all men enagage in gender-based violence. We argue that this points to the strategic use of social media to challenge harmful rhetoric, whereby users exploit the affordances of hashtags. Twitter users engaged in strategies including resistance, opposition, and polarity to the hashtag, evidenced through the linguistic use of expletives, insults, and direct address, most often emerging through metadiscussion of the #NotAllMen hashtag itself; this works as a form of collective counter-protest through hashtag reframing. The hashtag reframing operates as a tool to show how those using the hashtag to focus on the defence of men, rather than critiquing the sociocultural dominance of misogynistic behaviour, ignored the fear experienced by all women and girls of being victims of gender-based violence, rape and murder.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100596"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211695822000198/pdfft?md5=eebc711b26b5d2a421768f3fa3fc129c&pid=1-s2.0-S2211695822000198-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89607498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The online activism of mock translanguaging: Language style, celebrity persona, and social class in China","authors":"Shuang Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100608","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines a viral language style that emerged during online activism against a Chinese celebrity after she was announced the winner of an architecture award. Drawing upon insights from celebrity studies, online activism, and social semiotics, I examine how netizens creatively appropriate and mock celebrity language, focusing on the semiotic work netizens engage in to mobilize emotions, form solidarity networks, and perform collective action as they reveal the moral failures, injustice, and falsehood of celebrity culture. Three semiotic strategies are found to be key in enabling netizens to formulate their critique: entextualization, stylization, and typification. In this process, language serves multiple functions: it is the target of critique, a proxy for discussing social issues, a tool for building solidarity through mutual learning, and a creative way of pursuing fun. I argue that these semiotic moves turn language into power, allowing netizens to articulate discontent against the rich amid increasing disparity and lack of trust in a neoliberal society.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100608"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211695822000319/pdfft?md5=266de968ac848131850df5b6a80939fa&pid=1-s2.0-S2211695822000319-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136967852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"COVID-19 and the discursive practices of political leadership: Introduction","authors":"Sylvia Jaworska,&nbsp;Camilla Vásquez","doi":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100605","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100605","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46649,"journal":{"name":"Discourse Context & Media","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100605"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211695822000289/pdfft?md5=b808cb8a3645ff52607fa4fac1838681&pid=1-s2.0-S2211695822000289-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48672834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}