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Defence strategies in an online community of caregivers
No full textPurpose
The purpose of this paper is to understand caregivers’ discursive constructions and responses to their unwanted (family and social) role as resulting in exchanges on social media. Online group platforms are understood as particularly suitable for the expression of intimate feelings among adults, for meeting and exhibiting stigma issues, and for the circulation of information and support (Suler, 2004; McCormack, 2010; Pounds et al., 2018).
Design/methodology/approach
This paper draws from digital Conversation Analysis (Giles et al., 2015), and considers data after combining quantitative (corpus analysis) and qualitative methods, from a critical discourse analysis perspective. The Stereotype Content Model (SCM; Fiske et al., 2002) is used together with collocation analysis to understand categorisations, which ultimately result in a defence strategy (Assimakopoulos et al., 2017) to negotiate the Self and the Others (Tannen, 1992).
Findings
Considering that the digital environment allows a discursive negotiation of identities, data suggest that these interactions are expressions of membership construction, group solidarity and empowerment, that normalise and legitimise emotions with the ultimate goal of (self-)acceptance.
Originality/value
This study provides a basis for further research on caregivers’ self-positioning in power-relations with others
Exploring New Occupational Discourses and Identities across Genres: Crisis and Well-Being
No full textThis collection explores the reconceptualisation of work and professional identity in the post-COVID society, particularly in the context of the Great Resignation. By focusing on the linguistic and discursive constructions emerging from this occupational crisis, the proposed chapters investigate how evolving narratives across various genres reflect broader societal changes, especially among Millennials and Generation Z. Key themes include work-life balance, well-being, and the shifting power dynamics between employers and employees
'I was doing something that wasn't aligned with me': quit discourse on YouTube video diaries
No full textThe Great Resignation was a mainly American economic trend in which record numbers of employees voluntarily resigned from their jobs, beginning in early 2021 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Within the neo-liberal thought, quitting could be viewed as a sign of weak-ness or an act of disobedience. This may partly explain why many American “quitters” (i.e.individuals about to or who have already left their jobs) have turned to social media platforms to upload (semi-)spontaneous videos in which they express their reasons and motivations for quitting their jobs in the form of public diaries. Within this specific historical and socio-cultural background, the present study offers a snapshot of the “Quit Discourse” by first adopting a linguistic perspective. Particularly, to understand how these individuals determine and redefine their emerging identity, the study combines sentiment analysis and corpus-informed methods with qualitative discourse analysis that draws upon recent theoretical insights from critical work sociology. Findings reveal that speakers construe quitting as a positive and beneficial experience of the self and represent themselves as purpose-driven visionaries
Introduction
No full textThis collection explores the reconceptualisation of work following the Great Resignation. Focusing on Millennials and Gen Z, it investigates shifting narratives on work-life balance, well-being, and the new power dynamics between employers and employees in a post-COVID world
Children and War: A Corpus-Based CDS of The New York Times Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Full text linkThis study investigates the discursive use of children in The New York Times’ coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from October 2023 to July 2024. Combining quantitative corpus-based methods with qualitative critical discourse analysis, the research identifies key lexical features and examines the framing techniques used by the newspaper to narrate the war. Findings indicate that the image of children is a powerful discursive tool to influence both the emotional and cognitive responses of audiences. It serves various discursive purposes, such as humanising the discourse, evoking emotions, ranging from pity to horror, framing the conflict in moral terms, legitimising political actions, and maintaining narrative cohesion. Particularly, the strategic use of children’s images not only vilifies the opposing side by highlighting a stark moral contrast but also provides a justification for military action, reinforcing the perceived righteousness of one’s own cause. Furthermore, a significant disparity is noted in the individualisation of children: Israeli children are often depicted with detailed personal stories, enhancing their humanisation, while Palestinian children are more frequently represented through aggregated numbers, which highlights the scale of the tragedy but may dilute the personal aspects of their suffering
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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