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‘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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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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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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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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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

Digital rockets: Resisting necropolitics through defiant languaging and artivism 数字火箭:通过挑衅的语言和艺术主义抵制死亡政治

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100630

Daniel Silva , Junot Maia

引用次数: 4

Magical women: Representations of female characters in the Witcher video game series 魔法女性:《巫师》系列电子游戏中女性角色的表现

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100627

Frazer Heritage

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引用次数: 4

“What have you done?” Accounting for Covid-19 lockdown breaches on talk radio “你做了什么?”在谈话电台上解释Covid-19封锁的漏洞

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100639

Marina N. Cantarutti, Rosina Márquez Reiter

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‘Real men grill vegetables, not dead animals’: Discourse representations of men in an online vegan community “真正的男人烤蔬菜，而不是死动物”:一个纯素食网络社区中男性的话语表现

IF 2 2区文学

Discourse Context & Media Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2022.100640

Gavin Brookes , Małgorzata Chałupnik

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