ABSTRACT
This collection makes the case for existing critical discourse analysis theory and methods to meaningfully engage with the communicative parameters, power dynamics, and technological affordances of contemporary digital spaces.
This book lends a critical focus on discursive practices operating through the paradigm of social media communication, addressing the crucial interface of discourse and the participatory web with disciplinary rigour and a well-balanced focus.
This volume features chapters highlighting a diverse range of methods, including multi-sited ethnography, multimodality, argumentation studies, and topic modelling, as applied to a global range of case studies to present a holistic portrait of the latest methodological and theoretical debates in this space. The collection demonstrates the many and pervasive impacts of digital mediation on established discursive practices that are (re-)shaping existing social values, practices, and demands. In so doing, the collection advocates for a new tradition in critical discourse research, one which is rigorous in accounting for both solid discursive frameworks and the evolving complexity of digital platforms, and which triangulates methodologies in order to fully make sense of contemporary discursive practices and power relations on the online-offline continuum.
This collection will be of interest to students and scholars in critical discourse studies, digital communication, media studies, and anthropology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|47 pages
Digital discourses
chapter 3|23 pages
Introducing discourse-driven text mining
part II|49 pages
Digital discourses of misogyny and gender-based violence
chapter 5|27 pages
Discourses of public breastfeeding on Russophone social media
part III|51 pages
Digital discourses of hate and discrimination
chapter 6|24 pages
“Reject Rohingya and Send Them Back!”
chapter 7|25 pages
Subtle hate speech and the recontextualisation of antisemitism online
part IV|59 pages
Digital discourses of counter-hegemony and protest
chapter 8|25 pages
From participatory politics to fan activism
chapter 9|32 pages
Analysing digital discourses of the #Endmaleguardianshipsystem campaign in Saudi Arabia
part V|63 pages
Digital discourses of power, knowledge, and legitimisation