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Book review: The art of political storytelling: why stories win votes in post-truth politics by Philip Seargeant
No full textIn The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-Truth Politics, Philip Seargeant makes the case that the basic archetypal structures of narrative are integral to political processes, including the ways that sense is constructed in public debate. Combining a sound and rigorous academic argument with a clear and accessible style, this book is a valuable dissection of current political realities and a manual for those engaging in or analysing politics in the contemporary post-truth era, recommends Ignas Kalpokas. The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-Truth Politics. Philip Seargeant. Bloomsbury. 2020
Book review: The art of political storytelling: why stories win votes in post-truth politics by Philip Seargeant
No full textIn The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-Truth Politics, Philip Seargeant makes the case that the basic archetypal structures of narrative are integral to political processes, including the ways that sense is constructed in public debate. Combining a sound and rigorous academic argument with a clear and accessible style, this book is a valuable dissection of current political realities and a manual for those engaging in or analysing politics in the contemporary post-truth era, recommends Ignas Kalpokas. The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-Truth Politics. Philip Seargeant. Bloomsbury. 2020
Book review: The art of political storytelling: why stories win votes in post-truth politics by Philip Seargeant
No full textIn The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-Truth Politics, Philip Seargeant makes the case that the basic archetypal structures of narrative are integral to political processes, including the ways that sense is constructed in public debate. Combining a sound and rigorous academic argument with a clear and accessible style, this book is a valuable dissection of current political realities and a manual for those engaging in or analysing politics in the contemporary post-truth era, recommends Ignas Kalpokas. The Art of Political Storytelling: Why Stories Win Votes in Post-Truth Politics. Philip Seargeant. Bloomsbury. 2020
The COVID-19 infodemic on Twitter: dialogic contraction within the echo chambers
No full textFake news and misinformation are a key topic when discussing social media analysis research. Special attention has been paid to how social media discourse, rather than focusing on the correct identification of sources and voices, can end up constructing trust and credibility by emphasising shared identities and positions, usually in opposition to other views. Studies on “echo chambers” look at how the views of others are systematically rejected and used instrumentally to support one’s own beliefs. Twitter discourse is often a case in point. The focus of our analysis is on the language that manifests the writer’s position, starting from the concept of engagement as defined in Martin and White’s (2005) appraisal framework. This indicates the speaker’s degree of commitment to what is being expressed and manifests the speaker’s attitudes to opening and closing the dialogic space for external views. Using a corpus of tweets and one of journalistic texts on the pandemic, we test the hypothesis that the space given to dialogic contraction on Twitter may be wider than that provided by traditional journalism. The study - based on frequency analysis, concordance analysis, and word embedding - centres on a predefined list of appraisal markers indicating contraction or expansion. We look at the relative frequency of these markers and at their role in the ongoing debate. The results show that there are specific markers that dominate Twitter discourse: adversative “but”, negative “no”/“not”, and cognitive verbs like “know” and “think”. A closer analysis of concordances of negatives and cognitive verbs shows that it is possible to identify patterns that are clear signals of explicit denials, whether in representing a position or rejecting it, and that the verbs are used as markers of ideological positioning. Twitter thus turns out to be characterised by positioning that emphasises contrasting views and denial of other positions
The Rainbow Conspiracy: a corpus-based social media analysis of anti-LGBTIQ+ rhetoric in digital landscapes.
No full textIn recent years, fake news and other online strategies designed to generate misinformation across Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have become rife, and when it comes to targeting sexual diversity and gender equality, they are progressively garnering global social reverberation (Justice/Hooker 2017; Forgas/Baumeister 2019; Stabile et al. 2019; Bernecker et al. 2021). Regardless of the obvious, patently inflated, conspiracist rhetoric underlying such hateful discourses (see Balirano/Borba 2021), these anti-gender and anti-equality speculations tend to converge upon the slippery trope of gender ideology (Andrews et al. 2015; Beltrán/Creely 2018; Pascale 2019; Černohorská 2020; Wasser/França 2020). Indeed, it is by wielding the discursive tools pertaining to this ideology that a global movement currently opposes gender equality, abortion, sexual education, and LGBTIQ+ rights in areas such as marriage, adoption, surrogacy, and reproductive technologies (Butler 2019), thus contributing to the stigmatization of LGBTIQ+ activism (Borba 2019a, 2019b). The findings of this study reveal that one of the most damaging implications of this phenomenon is that anti-gender mobilizations are increasingly taking root and thriving within the collective memory by means of semiotic processes of loose affiliation.
Against this backdrop, the present chapter explores the current discourses of anti-gay activism and their claim that sexual diversity runs counter to most mainstream, traditional or religious values. Such allegations, in turn, feed into the theory underlying the misinformation crusade enacted across most SNSs (see Balirano/Hughes 2020), whereby a secret, large-scale gay lobby, akin to the proverbial Trojan Horse, is progressively penetrating traditional family values in order to defile the entire human race through ad hoc gender recruitment. By analyzing a collection of anti-gender online texts collected from Twitter – by using seed words and phrases such as ‘LGBTIQ+ conspiracy’, ‘Homintern’, ‘Gaystapo’ and ‘Lavender mafia’ – this study offers a corpus-based sociolinguistic CDA analysis of the current state of the art of fake news addressing LGBTIQ+ online communities.
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Balirano, Giuseppe / Hughes, Bronwen (eds) 2020. Homing in on Hate: Critical Discourse Studies of Hate Speech, Discrimination and Inequality in the Digital Age. Naples: Paolo Loffredo Editore.
Balirano, Giuseppe / Borba, Rodrigo (eds) 2021. Re-Defining Gender, Sexuality, and Discourse in the Global Rise of Right-Wing Extremism. Special issue of Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal 24 (1).
Beltrán, William Mauricio / Creely, Sian 2018. Pentecostals, Gender Ideology and the Peace Plebiscite: Colombia 2016. Religions 9 (12): 1–19.
Bernecker, Sven / Flowerree, Amy K. / Grundmann, Thomas (eds) 2021. The Epistemology of Fake News. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Borba, Rodrigo 2019a. Gendered Politics of Enmity: Language Ideologies and Social Polarisation in Brazil. Gender and Language 13 (4): 423–448.
Borba, Rodrigo 2019b. Injurious Signs: The Geopolitics of Hate and Hope in the Linguistic Landscape of a Political Crisis. In Peck, Amiena / Stroud, Christopher / Williams, Quentin (eds), Making Sense of People and Place in Linguistic Landscapes, pp. 161–181. London/New York: Bloomsbury.
Butler, Judith 2019. What Threat? The Campaign against “Gender Ideology”. Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation 3: 1–12. DOI: 10.12893/gjcpi.2019.3.1.
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Wasser, Nicolas / França, Isadora Lins 2020. In the Line of Fire: Sex(uality) and Gender Ideology in Brazil. Femina Politica – Zeitschrift für tische Politikwissenschaft 29 (1): 138–141. DOI: 10.3224/feminapolitica.v29i1.13
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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