... fandom participatory culture discourse analysis digital communities Introduction Statistics show that South Africans are highly active on the Internet and social media. The Global Digital Report 2024 found that 45.34 million people use the internet (74.7% of the population), 26 million people use...

...Rwanda 1994 Genocide The Guardian news discourse discourse analysis language journalism ethics social responsibility Introduction The Guardian is a daily international newspaper that publishes hardcopy and electronic online news that operates in 25 countries. It covers...

...Grounded theory participatory reflexivity multistage dominant group neopragmatism social identity self-constitutionality cultural hegemony discourse analysis Initially, this chapter discusses the design of this study, highlighting the two interconnected stages involved, as well...

... these textbooks and the messaging communicated to young people about entrepreneurs, as these adolescents themselves start forming their own identities. Discourse analysis entrepreneurship education race representation textbooks curriculum Introduction and Background With a history dominated by colonisation...

..., and eugenic aspirations. We consider the school garden movement in North America through a discourse analysis of historical school garden texts to explore how childhoods were culturally constructed and how these discourses have influenced children both in the past and present. School gardens discourse...

.... It is consistent with the earlier description of much of the discourse-oriented academic work discussed earlier where “organizational discourse analysis” is seen as constituted through a bundle of discursive techniques and linguistic tools which are used to rigorously analyze change phenomena. When this type...

... and is embodied by how the possession of one's available forms of capital indexicalise their social class categorisations. Class cultures identities institutional habitus social interactions linguistic autoethnography discourse analysis ...

... discourse analysis The relationship between medical knowledge and practice continues to be an important area of inquiry in medical sociology. From Foucault's (1973) writings on the medical gaze to Epstein's (2007) ideas on standardization in medical research, social theorists have consistently been...

... interpret reality, perceive themselves and others and act. Quite literally, then, the discourse people engage in and are influenced by during the pandemic may help to save or imperil lives and livelihoods. While there are many possible approaches to discourse analysis, this chapter focuses on some key...

... BDSM relationships – later in this chapter with regard to the film Secretary (2002, directed by Steven Shainberg) and the Showtime cable television series Billions (2016–present). BDSM conceptual research discourse analysis healing narratives pathologization representation...

... to the history of a specific imaginary of achievement that transcends the field of sports and should be studied more widely to understand the institutionalization of rankings in other fields. Achievement rankings baseball historical sociology discourse analysis sports Introduction: What defines a “champion...

... argues that the denial of transphobia and simultaneous claims of victimization made by the dominant, cisgender majority are intrinsically linked. Transgender victimhood discourse analysis transphobia gender neutral sex-segregated cisgender Introduction Transgender identities have attracted...

..., topped with the discourse analysis of the written accounts of Airbnb guests, this study has discovered several values that result from cocreation during participation in Airbnb business models. Several avenues for the continuation of this study are suggested to build upon the acquired knowledge from...

... by a reflexive discourse analysis and narrative inquiry approach, which places the focus of the study on the experiences of participants. Communities played very limited roles in NGO responses, especially non-dominant or marginalised sectors of society, such as youth, women and people with disabilities. Failure...

... are associated with cultural practices and identities ( Bordo, 2003 ; McGannon & Smith, 2015 ; McGannon & Spence, 2010 ). Discursive Psychology and Critical Discourse Analysis Pertinent to the present chapter, is work in cultural studies by McMahon and colleagues problematizing elite Australian...

... are constructed ( Jacobs, 1996 ; McKernan, 2015 ). Engaging in a form of critical discourse analysis, my method highlights the role of discursive activity as it takes place within these newspapers and their embedded power relations ( Phillips & Hardy, 2002 ). Methods This resonates with the study of media...

... for his/her health ( Kivits, 2013 ; Trnka, 2016 ), healthism ( Lupton, 2013, 2014b ), symbiosis between human and digital ( Haraway, 2013 ; Lupton, 2017 ), cyberbole ( Ajana, 2005 ; Woolgar, 2002 ) and the pathologisation of human existence ( Barker, 2014 ; Rose, 2007 ). Discourse Analysis Williams...

...Abstract This chapter explores the impact of context on the teaching of a multicultural teacher education course and illustrates what can be learned through partnering self-study methodology with discourse analysis. The study described in this chapter draws on data collected at two teacher...

...). This study conducted a critical discourse analysis of the OECD document PISA 2012 Results: Excellence through Equity (OECD, 2013) to examine the ways that PISA and the OECD conceive of educational equity in a global context. Given the growing convergence of global educational policy, the way...

..., by extending the advances made by netnography into online spaces, online reception analysis can potentially inform the current status of big data research with a sociocultural methodological perspective. Big data online reception analysis netnography discourse analysis Webometrics YouTube Introduction...