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The (neo-)pragmatic perspective of the sociology of critique on domination, power, and inequality in school education
No full textDie Soziologie der Kritik stellt einen Theorierahmen bereit, der die moralisch-kritischen Kompetenzen von sozialen Akteur*innen zum Ausgangspunkt für die Analyse von Macht und Ungleichheiten in der Bildung macht. Deren Umgang mit ungewissen Situationen ist Anker- und Ausgangspunkt für das Verständnis der Stabilisierung, aber auch des Wandels sozialer Ordnungen. Dieser Beitrag führt diese Perspektive als Grundlage für ein Forschungsprogramm ein, mit dem rekonstruiert werden kann, wie in verketteten schulischen Handlungssituationen soziale Ordnung wirksam hergestellt, aufrechterhalten und/oder verändert wird. Dieser Zugriff auf bildungsbezogene Herrschafts-, Macht- und Ungleichheitsverhältnisse wird anhand eines laufenden Forschungsprojekts veranschaulicht, in welchem das Zusammenspiel von schulischen Sortierungsprozessen und digitalen Bildungstechnologien beleuchtet wird.The sociology of critique provides a theoretical framework that takes the moral and critical competencies of social actors as a starting point for analyzing power and inequalities in education. Their handling of uncertain situations serves as both the anchor and starting point for understanding the stabilization, but also the transformation, of social orders. This contribution introduces this perspective as the basis for a research program that can reconstruct how social order is effectively established, maintained, and/or changed in interconnected school-related action situations. This approach to educational domination, power, and inequality is illustrated by an ongoing research project, which examines the interplay between school sorting processes and digital educational technologies
Conference Report: 8th International Educational Ethnography Conference: Re-Writing (against) Culture. Ethnographic writing in educational research: practices, approaches, innovations and positioning
No full textVom 27. bis 29. Juni 2024 fand in Zürich die 8. Internationale Erziehungswissenschaftliche Ethnographie-Konferenz statt. Die Konferenz zielte auf eine «Aktualisierung der Writing-(against)-Culture-Debatte» ab und setzte sich mit der Positioniertheit der Ethnograph*innen, der Praxis des ethnographischen Schreibens sowie der Produktion ethnographischer Daten und Texte auseinander. Diskutiert wurden unter anderem Fragen der Wahrheit und Glaubwürdigkeit in ethnographischen Arbeiten sowie die Frage, was Daten in der Ethnographie sind und wie diese (re-)präsentiert werden.From 27 to 29 June 2024, the 8th International Educational Ethnography Conference took place in Zurich. The conference aimed to ‘update the writing (against) culture debate’ and addressed the positionality of ethnographers, the practice of ethnographic writing and the production of ethnographic data and texts. Discussions included questions of truth and credibility in ethnographic works as well as the question of what data is in ethnography and how it is (re-)presented
LGBTQ Visibility Measured Consistently and Persistently in US Twitter Bios from 2012 through 2023
No full textLGBTQ visibility is an often discussed but rarely quantified concept. Here we operationalize visibility as the prevalence of active social media accounts with an LGBTQ signifier in the profile bio and measure the prevalence of such accounts consistently and persistently at daily resolution over twelve years in the United States. We found that prevalence for the signifiers lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer increased. The term ‘gay’ grew most rapidly. Accounts with LGBTQ signifiers were especially visible on days corresponding to political or violent events. The rainbow flag emoji also increased in prevalence, including a notable ratchet each June (Pride Month). This work is a case study in ipseology – i.e. the study of human identity using large datasets and computational methods. Social scientists should embrace ipseology as a new opportunity to observe how people describe their selves to a public audience
“Não esqueça eu” - O uso do pronome sujeito EU em função de objeto no português popular do Brasil
No full textPortuguese, like many other Romance languages, is traditionally classified as a pro-drop language with a nominative-accusative alignment in its pronominal system. This means that it basically encodes the subject function on the verb, whereas the object function is marked on the object pronoun itself. However, spoken Portuguese in Brazil has been known to have drastically readjusted its pronominal system due to the introduction of novel pronouns such as você and a gente that do not inflect for case and which both trigger the verb to be inflected for 3rd person singular. Obviously, such radical changes can affect the entire pronominal system. New evidence taken from various sources such as pop music and X (Twitter) show precisely this: loss of case distinction seems to affect also other pronouns in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. This paper tries to follow this development with the example of the 1st person singular pronoun eu by analyzing data found on social media and comparing it to written sources as far back as the 15th century.Portuguese, like many other Romance languages, is traditionally classified as a pro-drop language with a nominative-accusative alignment in its pronominal system. This means that it basically encodes the subject function on the verb, whereas the object function is marked on the object pronoun itself. However, spoken Portuguese in Brazil has been known to have drastically readjusted its pronominal system due to the introduction of novel pronouns such as você and a gente that do not inflect for case and which both trigger the verb to be inflected for 3rd person singular. Obviously, such radical changes can affect the entire pronominal system. New evidence taken from various sources such as pop music and X (Twitter) show precisely this: loss of case distinction seems to affect also other pronouns in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. This paper tries to follow this development with the example of the 1st person singular pronoun eu by analyzing data found on social media and comparing it to written sources as far back as the 15th century.Portuguese, like many other Romance languages, is traditionally classified as a pro-drop language with a nominative-accusative alignment in its pronominal system. This means that it basically encodes the subject function on the verb, whereas the object function is marked on the object pronoun itself. However, spoken Portuguese in Brazil has been known to have drastically readjusted its pronominal system due to the introduction of novel pronouns such as você and a gente that do not inflect for case and which both trigger the verb to be inflected for 3rd person singular. Obviously, such radical changes can affect the entire pronominal system. New evidence taken from various sources such as pop music and X (Twitter) show precisely this: loss of case distinction seems to affect also other pronouns in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. This paper tries to follow this development with the example of the 1st person singular pronoun eu by analyzing data found on social media and comparing it to written sources as far back as the 15th century.Portuguese, like many other Romance languages, is traditionally classified as a pro-drop language with a nominative-accusative alignment in its pronominal system. This means that it basically encodes the subject function on the verb, whereas the object function is marked on the object pronoun itself. However, spoken Portuguese in Brazil has been known to have drastically readjusted its pronominal system due to the introduction of novel pronouns such as você and a gente that do not inflect for case and which both trigger the verb to be inflected for 3rd person singular. Obviously, such radical changes can affect the entire pronominal system. New evidence taken from various sources such as pop music and X (Twitter) show precisely this: loss of case distinction seems to affect also other pronouns in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. This paper tries to follow this development with the example of the 1st person singular pronoun eu by analyzing data found on social media and comparing it to written sources as far back as the 15th century.Portuguese, like many other Romance languages, is traditionally classified as a pro-drop language with a nominative-accusative alignment in its pronominal system. This means that it basically encodes the subject function on the verb, whereas the object function is marked on the object pronoun itself. However, spoken Portuguese in Brazil has been known to have drastically readjusted its pronominal system due to the introduction of novel pronouns such as você and a gente that do not inflect for case and which both trigger the verb to be inflected for 3rd person singular. Obviously, such radical changes can affect the entire pronominal system. New evidence taken from various sources such as pop music and X (Twitter) show precisely this: loss of case distinction seems to affect also other pronouns in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. This paper tries to follow this development with the example of the 1st person singular pronoun eu by analyzing data found on social media and comparing it to written sources as far back as the 15th century.Português, como muitas outras línguas românicas, é tradicionalmente classificado como uma língua pro-drop com alinhamento nominativo-acusativo em seu sistema pronominal. Isso significa que a função do sujeito é basicamente codificada no verbo, enquanto a função do objeto é marcada no próprio pronome. No entanto, o português falado no Brasil é conhecido por ter simplificado drasticamente seu sistema pronominal devido à introdução de novos pronomes, como você e a gente, que não se flexionam quanto ao caso e ambos requerem o verbo na 3.ª pessoa do singular. Obviamente, mudanças tão radicais podem afetar todo o sistema pronominal. Novas evidências provenientes de várias fontes, como por exemplo a música popular e Twitter, mostram exatamente isso: O português brasileiro popular parece estar em via de abandonar completamente qualquer distinção de caso em seu sistema pronominal. Este artigo tenta acompanhar esse desenvolvimento com o exemplo do pronome de 1.ª pessoa do singular eu, analisando dados encontrados nas redes sociais e comparando-os com fontes escritas que remontam até ao século XV.Portuguese, like many other Romance languages, is traditionally classified as a pro-drop language with a nominative-accusative alignment in its pronominal system. This means that it basically encodes the subject function on the verb, whereas the object function is marked on the object pronoun itself. However, spoken Portuguese in Brazil has been known to have drastically readjusted its pronominal system due to the introduction of novel pronouns such as você and a gente that do not inflect for case and which both trigger the verb to be inflected for 3rd person singular. Obviously, such radical changes can affect the entire pronominal system. New evidence taken from various sources such as pop music and X (Twitter) show precisely this: loss of case distinction seems to affect also other pronouns in Spoken Brazilian Portuguese. This paper tries to follow this development with the example of the 1st person singular pronoun eu by analyzing data found on social media and comparing it to written sources as far back as the 15th century
Grundlagen einer \u27integralen\u27 Grammatik
No full textWithin the framework of an integral grammar, syntax, morphology and lexicology represent three types of consideration of the same reality, which is the linguistic construction of meaning. The distinction between these three linguistic disciplines may be useful in some cases, but in other cases it may hinder the explanation of linguistic phenomena. Integral linguistics is capable of unifying the disciplines - integrating them. It can, however, use modular methods where appropriate. It could therefore be seen as a kind of construction grammar with the option of modularising its descriptions and explanations. This is not to say that this approach advocates methodical indifference; on the contrary, it presupposes a particularly rigorous deduction of its concepts and descriptive methods. The foundations for such a grammar have already been laid in Saussure\u27s Cours de linguistique générale, which – with striking foresight – anticipates the ideas of nowadays\u27 construction grammars and provides them with a hitherto unprecedented theoretical foundation.
This is the starting point for the present article, which places Saussure\u27s reflections within the framework of a theory of language centred on the speech event. It defines the functional levels of the sentence on the ground of the dimensions of utterance meaning, deduces the notions of syntactic function and syntactic constituency from the synthetic and analytical mechanisms of the syntagmatic dimension of language, and those of form and category from the abstraction principles of the paradigmatic dimension of language. Finally, it will be shown how the basic ideas of constructional grammars, in particular that of the syntax lexicon continuum, can be convincingly and exhaustively explained by the universal principles of grammar postulated by Saussure: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic structuration of language.Within the framework of an integral grammar, syntax, morphology and lexicology represent three types of consideration of the same reality, which is the linguistic construction of meaning. The distinction between these three linguistic disciplines may be useful in some cases, but in other cases, it may hinder the explanation of linguistic phenomena. Integral linguistics is capable of unifying the disciplines by integrating them. It can, however, use modular methods where appropriate. It could, therefore be seen as a kind of construction grammar with the option of modularising its descriptions and explanations. This is not to say that this approach advocates methodical indifference; on the contrary, it presupposes a particularly rigorous deduction of its concepts and descriptive methods. The foundations for such a grammar have already been laid in Saussure\u27s Cours de linguistique générale, which —with striking foresight— anticipates the ideas of nowadays\u27 construction grammars and provides them with a hitherto unprecedented theoretical foundation.
This is the starting point for the present article, which defines the functional levels of the sentence on the ground of the dimensions of utterance meaning. It deduces the notions of syntactic function and syntactic constituency from the synthetic and analytical mechanisms of the syntagmatic dimension of language and those of form and category from the abstraction principles of the paradigmatic dimension of language. Finally, it will be shown how the basic ideas of construction grammars, in particular that of the syntax-lexicon continuum, can be convincingly and exhaustively explained by the universal principles of grammar postulated by Saussure: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic structuration of language.Dans le cadre d\u27une grammaire intégrale la syntaxe, la morphologie et la lexicologie représentent trois types de considération de la même réalité, qui est la construction linguistique du sens. La distinction de ces trois disciplines linguistiques peut être utile dans certains cas, mais elle peut dans d\u27autres cas faire obstacle à l\u27explication des phénomènes linguistiques. Une linguistique intégrale est en mesure d\u27unifier les disciplines – de les intégrer. Elle peut toutefois avoir recours à des méthodes modulaires quand cela semble indiqué. On pourrait donc y voir une sorte de grammaire constructionnelle ayant l\u27option de la modularisation de ses descriptions et explications. Cela ne veut pas dire que cette approche prône l\u27indifférence méthodique, mais tout au contraire qu\u27elle suppose une déduction particulièrement rigoureuse de ses concepts et de ses méthodes descriptives. Les bases d\u27une telle grammaire ont déjà été posées dans le Cours de linguistique générale de Saussure, qui – d\u27une clairvoyance frappante – anticipe les idées des grammaires constructionnelles et leur fournit un fondement théorique jusqu\u27à présent inédit.
Voilà le point de départ de l\u27article présent, qui place les réflexions de Saussure dans le cadre d\u27une théorie du langage centrées sur l\u27événement de l\u27énonciation et définit les plans fonctionnels de la phrase à partir des dimensions de la sémantique de l\u27énoncé. Il déduit les notions de fonction et de constituant syntaxiques des mécanismes synthétique et analytique de la dimension syntagmatique du langage et celles de forme et catégorie des principes d\u27abstraction de la dimension paradigmatique du langage. En guise de conclusion sera démontré comment expliquer de manière concluante et exhaustive les idées de base des grammaires constructionnelles, notamment celle du continuum lexico-syntaxique par les principes universels de la grammaire formulés par Saussure, à savoir le caractère à la fois syntagmatique et paradigmatique du langage.
Within the framework of an integral grammar, syntax, morphology and lexicology represent three types of consideration of the same reality, which is the linguistic construction of meaning. The distinction between these three linguistic disciplines may be useful in some cases, but in other cases, it may hinder the explanation of linguistic phenomena. Integral linguistics is capable of unifying the disciplines by integrating them. It can, however, use modular methods where appropriate. It could, therefore be seen as a kind of construction grammar with the option of modularising its descriptions and explanations. This is not to say that this approach advocates methodical indifference; on the contrary, it presupposes a particularly rigorous deduction of its concepts and descriptive methods. The foundations for such a grammar have already been laid in Saussure\u27s Cours de linguistique générale, which —with striking foresight— anticipates the ideas of nowadays\u27 construction grammars and provides them with a hitherto unprecedented theoretical foundation.
This is the starting point for the present article, which defines the functional levels of the sentence on the ground of the dimensions of utterance meaning. It deduces the notions of syntactic function and syntactic constituency from the synthetic and analytical mechanisms of the syntagmatic dimension of language and those of form and category from the abstraction principles of the paradigmatic dimension of language. Finally, it will be shown how the basic ideas of construction grammars, in particular that of the syntax-lexicon continuum, can be convincingly and exhaustively explained by the universal principles of grammar postulated by Saussure: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic structuration of language.Within the framework of an integral grammar, syntax, morphology and lexicology represent three types of consideration of the same reality, which is the linguistic construction of meaning. The distinction between these three linguistic disciplines may be useful in some cases, but in other cases, it may hinder the explanation of linguistic phenomena. Integral linguistics is capable of unifying the disciplines by integrating them. It can, however, use modular methods where appropriate. It could, therefore be seen as a kind of construction grammar with the option of modularising its descriptions and explanations. This is not to say that this approach advocates methodical indifference; on the contrary, it presupposes a particularly rigorous deduction of its concepts and descriptive methods. The foundations for such a grammar have already been laid in Saussure\u27s Cours de linguistique générale, which —with striking foresight— anticipates the ideas of nowadays\u27 construction grammars and provides them with a hitherto unprecedented theoretical foundation.
This is the starting point for the present article, which defines the functional levels of the sentence on the ground of the dimensions of utterance meaning. It deduces the notions of syntactic function and syntactic constituency from the synthetic and analytical mechanisms of the syntagmatic dimension of language and those of form and category from the abstraction principles of the paradigmatic dimension of language. Finally, it will be shown how the basic ideas of construction grammars, in particular that of the syntax-lexicon continuum, can be convincingly and exhaustively explained by the universal principles of grammar postulated by Saussure: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic structuration of language.Within the framework of an integral grammar, syntax, morphology and lexicology represent three types of consideration of the same reality, which is the linguistic construction of meaning. The distinction between these three linguistic disciplines may be useful in some cases, but in other cases, it may hinder the explanation of linguistic phenomena. Integral linguistics is capable of unifying the disciplines by integrating them. It can, however, use modular methods where appropriate. It could, therefore be seen as a kind of construction grammar with the option of modularising its descriptions and explanations. This is not to say that this approach advocates methodical indifference; on the contrary, it presupposes a particularly rigorous deduction of its concepts and descriptive methods. The foundations for such a grammar have already been laid in Saussure\u27s Cours de linguistique générale, which —with striking foresight— anticipates the ideas of nowadays\u27 construction grammars and provides them with a hitherto unprecedented theoretical foundation.
This is the starting point for the present article, which defines the functional levels of the sentence on the ground of the dimensions of utterance meaning. It deduces the notions of syntactic function and syntactic constituency from the synthetic and analytical mechanisms of the syntagmatic dimension of language and those of form and category from the abstraction principles of the paradigmatic dimension of language. Finally, it will be shown how the basic ideas of construction grammars, in particular that of the syntax-lexicon continuum, can be convincingly and exhaustively explained by the universal principles of grammar postulated by Saussure: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic structuration of language.Within the framework of an integral grammar, syntax, morphology and lexicology represent three types of consideration of the same reality, which is the linguistic construction of meaning. The distinction between these three linguistic disciplines may be useful in some cases, but in other cases, it may hinder the explanation of linguistic phenomena. Integral linguistics is capable of unifying the disciplines by integrating them. It can, however, use modular methods where appropriate. It could, therefore be seen as a kind of construction grammar with the option of modularising its descriptions and explanations. This is not to say that this approach advocates methodical indifference; on the contrary, it presupposes a particularly rigorous deduction of its concepts and descriptive methods. The foundations for such a grammar have already been laid in Saussure\u27s Cours de linguistique générale, which —with striking foresight— anticipates the ideas of nowadays\u27 construction grammars and provides them with a hitherto unprecedented theoretical foundation.
This is the starting point for the present article, which defines the functional levels of the sentence on the ground of the dimensions of utterance meaning. It deduces the notions of syntactic function and syntactic constituency from the synthetic and analytical mechanisms of the syntagmatic dimension of language and those of form and category from the abstraction principles of the paradigmatic dimension of language. Finally, it will be shown how the basic ideas of construction grammars, in particular that of the syntax-lexicon continuum, can be convincingly and exhaustively explained by the universal principles of grammar postulated by Saussure: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic structuration of language
Marie-Luise Hermann: War das schon alles? Babyboomer jenseits der Lebensmitte: Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen, 2023
No full textRoger Money-Kyrle: Klinische Beiträge. Ausgewählte Schriften Band 2. Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Heinz Weiß und Claudia Frank: Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main, 2022
No full textFraming Devices
Get PDFFraming devices manifest themselves in the use of linguistic expressions, metaphors, patterns of argumentation, and keywords.
Entry is connected to
causal attributions
cultural motifs
Field of Application/Theoretical Foundation
Framing devices can be used as a variable to analyse how texts contribute to frames through of their use of idioms, metaphors and key words. “Thus, the power of a frame can be as great as that of language itself.” (Entman, 1993, p. 55)
References/Combination with other methods of data collection
The manual content analysis combined both quantitative and qualitative categories of a press article. In addition to the formal categories that can be ascribed to a press release, the frame elements were also coded in the analysis. Hereby, the framing devices refer to the more qualitative analysis of an article.
Example studies: Pentzold & Knorr (2024); Pentzold & Fischer (2017); Van Gorp & Vercruysse (2012)
Information on Van Gorp & Vercruysse, 2012
Authors: Baldwin Van Gorp and Tom Vercruysse
Research questions: What are the dominant frames used to represent dementia and what alternative frames could be proffered?
Object of analysis: An inductive frame analysis to examine the various ways in which the media define dementia both in news aggregates and in audio-visual material from the internet. The aim is to find indications of how and what conceptions people gain of dementia through news, audiovisual material, novels, and public health brochures. Hereby, the analysis followed an initial three-step coding procedure: First, the authors conducted the material inductively by coding key terms, with regular feedback moments to discuss potential divergences. This first phase ended when no new frames were detected, followed by an axial coding procedure of the whole material during phase two. Here, every new passage from the material had to be connected to at least one frame package so to verify the pre-defined frames from phase one. Third and lastly, frame packages were created by linking both reasoning devices and framing devices with a cultural theme.
Time frame of analysis and analyzed media type: The sample consisted of a representative selection of Belgian newspaper coverage from March 1, 2008 to July 1, 2010. In addition, books about dementia (n=20) were examined together with (audio-)visual material (n=14) based on the search results for “dementia” on www.imdb.com and www.youtube.com. Finally, public health brochures of dementia were part of the sample (n=15).
Information about variable
Variable/name definition: Frames/frame packages that define dementia
Scale: Nominal
Level of analysis: In the beginning by paragraph level, then the whole text as the frames began to emerge more clearly.
Sample operationalization: A frame / frame package consists of seven elements. These are the following: (1) cultural theme; (2) definition of the problem; (3) cause (why is it a problem?); (4) consequences; (5) moral values involved; (6) possible solutions/actions; (7) metaphors, choice of vocabulary.
Values: The qualitative analysis resulted in a total of twelve frame packages (six frames and six counter-frames). Each consists of a central cultural theme, a definition of dementia, the causes and possible consequences, the moral evaluation and possible future scenarios of dementia. (1A. Dualism of body and mind vs. 1B. Unity of body and mind; 2; The invader; 3. The strange travelling companion; 4A. Faith in science vs. 4B. Natural ageing; 5. The fear of death and degeneration; 6. Carpe diem; 7A. Reversed roles vs. 7B. Each in turn; 8A. No quid pro quo vs. 8B. The Good Mother)
Reliability: First, both authors coded independently of each other and met to discuss differences. This resulted in tentative frames which were used for further qualitative research of the material. Then, the frames found were discussed with experts (in a workshop setting).
Codebook: Description of the sample (newspapers and audiovisual material) can be found at the end of the article (appendix of Van Gorp & Vercruysse, 2012).
Information on Pentzold & Knorr, 2024
Authors: Christian Pentzold and Charlotte Knorr
Research questions: With which imaginaries do journalistic reports make sense of Big Data? (RQ1) How do these imaginaries evolve over time? (RQ2) To what extent are the imaginaries similar or different across countries? (RQ3)
Object of analysis [and analyzed media type]: The project Framing Big Data (DFG 2021-2024) analyzed the media-communicatively articulated frames on “Big Data” in online newspapers and magazines from three countries: South Africa, Germany, and the United States. No visual material was collected or examined. In total, material from 26 newspapers and magazines was analyzed. The time frame ranged from 2011 to 2020 (N=1,456). Articles had to contain the keywords “big data” or “dataf*” (e.g., datafication, datafied) in the headline, sub-headline and/or first paragraph (sampling criteria).
To analyze the frames manually, it was assumed that frames are organized according to three levels analysable in a press text. First, the reasoning devices, followed by – secondly – the framing devices (references, argumentation patterns, idioms, metaphors, topoi) and – thirdly – the cultural motifs. Coming from a socio-constructionist approach, a cultural motif is the anchor of an idea expressed in a text (Van Gorp, 2010, p. 7). It is connected to a social problem. To understand this connection, the problem definition, causal attribution, treatment recommendation, and moral evaluation associated with the coded cultural motif were analyzed (cf., Van Gorp, 2010, p. 91-92; Entman, 1991, p. 52). These four elements are the reasoning devices of a frame. They are accompanied by the so-called framing devices which are stylistic devices, catchphrases, metaphors, and references. To that end, for the manual frame analysis on Big Data in the press aggregates, we developed codes for framing devices (1), reasoning devices (2), and cultural motifs (3). All three elements form part of a frame package (Van Gorp, 2007, 2010).
To build the frame packages, we followed procedures of both block modeling and cluster analysis. First, a block modeling was conducted – as introduced by White for structural analyses (White et al., 1976) – to prepare the data set for the cluster analysis. Then, the coded cultural motifs, the reasoning devices, and the framing devices that correlated strongly in the data set (a total of 9 variables and 34 codes) were chosen. With that, a hierarchical cluster analysis (Ward method) was conducted (Matthes & Kohring, 2008, p. 268). Binary variables were calculated for each of the codes of the nine variables.
Time frame of analysis: 2011, Jan 1 – 2020, Dec 31
Analyzed media type: Online press aggregates from newspapers and magazines in three countries: South Africa, Germany, and the United States. In sum, the coded press aggregates were sampled from 26 periodicals.
Codebook: Public_Codebook_FBD_fin.pdf
Information about the variable
Variable name/definition: Framing Devices
Scale: Nominal
Level of analysis: Whereas the formal categories in the manual content analysis were coded at the level of a single news item, the individual frame elements were coded at the level of propositional units. A propositional unit (= analysis unit) can be connected to several codes that are assigned to either a framing device, a reasoning device or a cultural motif. Not all but some frame elements had to be present in the news item, and at least one reasoning device. Furthermore, at least one reasoning device should be tied to a framing device and/or cultural motif to prove that the propositional unit contains semantic relationships and not just elements of “raw text” (van Atteveldt, 2008, p. 5).
Sample operationalization: Framing devices encompass stylistic devices, catchphrases, metaphors, and references. What stylistic devices (idioms or topoi) are used to describe big data metaphorically? Framing devices can be coded several times per propositional unit. A maximum of four framing devices can be coded.
Values: see Table 1.
Reliability: α = .93 [Krippendorff’s alpha, intercoder reliability. A total of seven reliability tests were conducted, five of them during the coding phase and two as part of two pretests. Five coders were involved in four tests, four coders were involved in three tests. All tests were conducted in the period July 2022 to December 2022].
Table 1
Values used for the variable framing devices described in the context of Big Data (Pentzold & Knorr, 2024)
Code
Framing Device
Description
1
Revolution/New age
new era, transformation, new mindset, game changing, data-driven culture, tech evangelism, data-ism; data as new science
2
Effectiveness/efficiency
in terms of how the data are (data quality; data as facts): accurate, exact, enlightening; intelligent machines as more-than-humans: their speed, capacity, permanence
3
new oil / gold mine / raw materials or natural goods
wash data like gold; data as new oil, data refining, the new oil of the internet, harvesting data, gold of the 21st century, spinning data gold
4
military armament with data for mass surveillance
Data as a weapon, killing for data, know-it all; Palantir struggle/war/surveillance: control, dominance, form of tyranny, manipulation, in the centre of electoral campaigns, data/psychological warfare, data targeting arsenal
5
Data as force for good
Data as danger and chance, “connectivity”, no data like more data, the more-the better; profits, benefits everyone, new hope, driven by change
6
Data as natural resource
collecting as in agriculture or with metals (mining, harvesting), raw-processing, profit maximization, data are valuable, “Informationskapitalismus” pure data, Rohstoff
7
Overwhelming abundance of data
(e.g. mountain or water metaphors); all-availability, uncontrollability; data deluge, big-data wave, flood of data, wave of technology, ocean of data/algorithms
8
data-based representations
data shadows, data profiles, data footprint, digital shadow/ twin simulation, distorted reflection of own identity
9
Data smog
data pollution, data exhaust
10
“Hot shit”
Big Data as trend/hype
-98- / -99
Something else/ nothing detected
Note: A maximum of four framing devices can be coded.
References
Entman, R. M. (1991). Framing U.S. Coverage of International News: Contrasts in Narratives of the KAL and Iran Air Incidents: Symposium. Journal of Communication, 41(4), 6–27.
Jasanoff, S. (2015). Future Imperfect. In S. Jasanoff & S. Kim (Eds.), Dreamscapes of Modernity (pp. 1–33). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Matthes, J., & Kohring, M. (2008). The Content Analysis of Media Frames: Toward Improving Reliability and Validity. Journal of Communication, 58(2), 258–279. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.00384.x
Pentzold, C., & Fischer, C. (2017). Framing Big Data: The discursive construction of a radio cell query in Germany. Big Data & Society, July-December, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717745897
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