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(Co-)constructing community-identity: pro-innocent voices in the Meredith Kercher murder case
No full textThis case has sparked much controversy online and offline among people who believed that Knox and Sollecito were innocent (pro-innocent), and people who were convinced they perpetrated the crime (pro-guilt). Within a framework of critical discourse and social media studies, the chapter discusses the patterns of socialization as presented by individual voices of pro-innocent participants: the representation of the ‘default other’ (the pro-guilt community); the individual positioning of pro-innocent campaigners within and towards their online community; their attitudes vis-à-vis Knox and Sollecito and their representation of the context of the murder and trials (Perugia and Italy). Due to the degree of social commitment and online activism, the personal level of identification with the cause is inextricably portrayed by the participants as intertwined and overlapping with the relational and collective levels of representation
Identity Representation of Plants in Relation to Humans and the Lifescape
Get PDFWhereas plants are essential in sustaining life, their representation in ecolinguistics and multimodal discourse studies is as yet underexplored. This chapter presents findings of an ongoing research project investigating how plants are represented in texts promoting environmental protection. Within the framework of ecolinguistics, critical discourse studies and multimodality, the study addresses the following questions: How are plants represented in connection with the environment they belong to and contribute to creating? How are plants represented in relation to humans and other animals? The data selected for analysis are influential and agenda-setting reports by authoritative international institutions and two short environmental videos. Drawing on Social Actor methodology, the study reflects on how it can be adapted and applied in written and multimodal texts for plant participants that lead life, move, act and establish relations in ways that are often imperceptible to humans and often neglected or misinterpreted in human discourse
Transmedia crime stories. The trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the globalised media sphere
No full textThis collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing criminology, socio-legal analysis, critical discourse studies, cultural studies and celebrity studies, the book analyses how this case was narrated in the media and why Knox emerged as the main protagonist. The case was one of the first transmedia crime stories, shaped and influenced by its circulation between a variety of media platforms. The chapters show how the new media landscape impacts on the way in which different stakeholders, from suspects and victims’ families to journalists and the general public, are engaging with criminal justice. While traditional news media played a significant role in the construction of innocence and guilt, social media offered users a worldwide forum to talk back in a way that both amplified and challenged the dominant media narrative biased in favour of a presumption of guilt.
This book begins with a new and original foreword written by Yvonne Jewkes, University of Brighton, UK
Le imprese del Nord Est alla conquista dei mercati emergenti
No full textUn rapido miglioramento degli standard di vita e la presenza di una classe media con un crescente potere d’acquisto sono caratteristiche che rendono i Paesi emergenti destinazioni sempre più attraenti per le imprese occidentali (Cavusgil, Knigt e Riesenberger, 2012). Tuttavia, l’alta attratti-vità di queste aree si scontra con le elevate difficoltà che le imprese incon-trano nel tradurre le potenzialità in performance positive (Bertoli, 2011).
Negli ultimi anni si è sviluppata una vasta letteratura volta ad analizzare le ragioni di tali problematicità. Arnold e Quelch (1998) sostengono che le imprese occidentali devono affrontare un contesto caratterizzato da unfa-miliar conditions and problems. Khanna e Palepu (1997) affermano che le imprese estere che vogliono operare nei Paesi emergenti non solo devono affrontare quella “distanza psicologica” normalmente associata a qualsiasi processo d’internazionalizzazione, ma devono imparare a gestire un conte-sto istituzionale profondamente complesso oltre che distante da quello tipi-co riscontrabile nei Paesi “avanzati” (come Europa e Stati Uniti). A questo si aggiungono le difficoltà connesse alle differenze di gusto, di cultura e di comportamento dei consumatori locali, una variabile che incide profonda-mente sui modelli di business e sui processi di vendita, realizzabili nei mercati emergenti (Wright et al., 2005; Pellicelli, 2010; Akbar, Bortoluzzi e Tracogna, 2014). Per gli studiosi d’impresa diventa, quindi, interessante realizzare indagini empiriche, da un lato, per comprendere se le teorie esi-stenti forniscono delle utili (e ancora valide) chiavi di lettura (Burgess e Steenkamp, 2006) e, dall’altro, per individuare le eventuali specificità e problematicità connesse all’internazionalizzazione in queste aree.
Questo invito è stato accolto da molti ricercatori sia in ambito interna-zionale che nazionale. Focalizzandoci sull’ambito nazionale, alcuni studi si sono concentrati sugli investimenti diretti esteri (Mariotti e Mutinelli, 2005), altri sulle opportunità connesse alle politiche di approvvigionamen-to (Nassimbeni e Sartor, 2006), altri ancora hanno indagato gli aspetti commerciali (Navaretti et al, 2012; Bortoluzzi, Chiarvesio e Tabacco, 2014; Vianelli, de Luca e Pegan, 2012). Il metodo del case study è stato utilizzato diffusamente al fine di esaminare in profondità l’internazionalizzazione delle imprese nei mercati emergenti (fra questi: Bertoli e Pittella, 2009; Bortoluzzi, Chiarvesio e Tabacco, 2012). Molte di queste ricerche confermano che anche per le imprese del made in Italy – con la sola eccezione delle imprese dell’automazione-meccanica − è anco-ra molto difficile trasformare i clienti potenziali in clienti effettivi (Vesco-vi, 2011), anche quando possono contare su un effetto positivo associato al country of origin (Balboni, Bortoluzzi e Grandinetti, 2011; Bertoli e Re-sciniti, 2013) e, contrariamente alle attese, anche per i prodotti del lusso (Bettiol et al., 2013).
Nonostante la copiosità di studi, mancano tuttora dati quantitativi piut-tosto basilari, relativi ad esempio alla numerosità e alle caratteristiche delle imprese che esportano in queste aree. Questo contributo al tema monogra-fico si propone di contribuire a colmare questo gap, focalizzandosi sulle imprese del Nord Est. Più precisamente, dopo aver presentato alcuni dati sull’entità e sulle motivazioni della presenza del campione esaminato nei mercati emergenti, andremo a sintetizzare alcune evidenze su aspetti che la letteratura ha rilevato essere critici per esportazione in queste aree, come il livello di adattamento delle politiche di marketing (Arnold e Quelch, 1998; Dawar e Chattopadhyay, 2002) e il profilo del partner locale (Dong, Tse e Hung, 2010)
Voices of self- and other- identification from a pro-innocent community: action-oriented discourses in online popular forensics
No full textThe chapter discusses practices and processes of self- and other identification in the pro-innocent online community devoted to obtain full exoneration for Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito from the charges of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007. As part of a wider ethnographic study of social media interaction on the case (Gies & Bortoluzzi, 2014; Gies, 2016), nine members actively involved in the pro-innocent online community were interviewed. Their diverse voices offer insights into the complex processes of disidentification from the ‘default others’ (the pro-guilt community), and identification with the cause of a miscarriage of justice case and the pro-innocent community. The questions addressed in this chapter are the following: what are the strategies used by the interviewees to project their identification or seeming distancing strategies in relation to the cause and the online pro-innocence collectivity? How do they construct the pro-guilt ‘other’ vis-à-vis their online media activities? How do they perceive and portray their diverse individual and collective contribution (online and offline) in relation to the social engagement they are all committed to?
Following Cameron’s work on empathy (2011a, 2011b, 2011c, 2012, 2013) and Spencer-Oatey’s studies on facework (2002, 2005, 2007, 2008), the chapter discusses empathy and dyspathy features that contribute to the identification or even distancing of the participants with the common cause and the community, and their disidentification from the pro-guilt community. The interviewees present online and offline actions as the core of their grassroots activity driven by collectively negotiated values and free individual choices
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