Discourse, Context and Media Journal

S. Herring & A. Dainas look at how seemingly synchronous interactions are created on TikTok.
🟦Drawing on #ConversationAnalysis, they look at turn-taking strategies on TikTok duets.
🟦The conversational imperative operates even in technological environments.

R. Jones analyzes how facial recognition technology is changing the design of interfaces for surveillance.
🟦He explores digital interfaces for surveyance as sites for engagement.
🟦By relying on PimEyes as case study, he discusses the need for more holistic approaches to study digital privacy.

M. G. Sindoni explores how AI-powered voice assistants are feminized.
🟦Multimodal #CDA is combined with feminist philosophy to analyse the discourse ideologies hidden in gendering AI voice assistants.
🟦Findings show how unconscious biases & sexist narratives are enforced.

H. Andersson looks at the role of interface design in a commercial calorie-tracking app.
🟦The analysis follows a discourse-design approach within #MultimodalCDA
🟦Results show that eating healthy is recontextualized as a practice grounded in 'dataism'.

D. Machin, P. Ledin & W. Zhao look at knowledge production & representation of expertise by Chinese nutrition influencers.
🟦They explore how iconization draws the discursive script of hashtags on 1000 posts.
🟦They show how platforms curate content with monetizing effects.

G. Bouvier & S. Jin look at the trend of women cutting hair on Xin in response to the death of a woman in Iran.
🟦Drawing on #MultimodalCriticalDiscourseAnalysis, they explore hashtag use.
🟦Findings show how social media affordances favour individual action.

A. Sampietro looks at WhatsApp's corporate discourse.
🟦Data include 109 post from WhatsApp's blog & website.
🟦Design updates of the app are considered.
🔷Results show how protocols and design are accommodated to the company's financial objectives.

📢New special issue published!!!
In this #SI, edited by @carotagg.bsky.social, G. Eriksson & C. Vásquez, articles reflect on the interplay between human agency and digital design.
Articles showcase a variety of methodological approaches.
Contents in 🧵
🔗https://bit.ly/4fcGeMO

🚨New article in the #SI on Translanguaging in digital scenarios!
🟦D. Leblebici & M. Rostom study Arab-speaking voice-assistants.
🔷They combine multimodal discourse analysis with translanguaging.
🔷Technologies influence sociolinguistic hierarchies.
🔗bit.ly/3TIuBUd

🚨New article published in the #SI on #ScientificKnowledge!
🟦J. Engberg & C.D. Maier study science slam performances.
🔷They designed a multi-phased analytic procedure where multimodality is considered.
🔷Multimodal recontextulization makes science ludic & more engaging.
🔗https://bit.ly/4kKS1TI

🚨New article in the #SI on Dementia in Social Media!
🟦C. Schneider looks at discussions of death in a dementia-related subreddit.
🔷Users' positions are analysed through (non-)deictic reference
🔷Reddit functions as a destigmatizing safe space
🔗https://bit.ly/3ItuLfR

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📣Exploring mediated discourse through corpus linguistics?
📓Thinking about publishing at #DCM_Journal?
❓Doubting whether it will be part of our scope?
Here is an example by Monika Benarek and colleagues analysing discursive struggles on Twitter.
🔗https://bit.ly/3P9lWbu
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As government officeholders face criticism for misconduct or policy failures, they are tempted to communicate in self-defensive ways. In this paper, I draw attention to how strategic blame avoidance in government may involve coercive impoliteness, that is, the use of expressions that attack the face of (potential) critics with an aim of forcing them to withhold their (future) criticism. Taking a discourse-historical approach to political rhetoric, I present illustrative examples of institutional government messaging from the United States, the United Kingdom, Estonia, and Russia to demonstrate how these face attacks may be accomplished in subtle ways, such as via sarcasm or mock politeness. I discuss the ethical implications of the uses of coercive impoliteness in government communication for democratic debates over public policy issues. The paper contributes to the study of political blame games, language aggression, and incivility in (digitally) mediated contexts.

🏛️📣 New article out now: Coercive impoliteness and blame avoidance in government communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dcmjournal.bsky.social

🚨New series of posts🚨
We’re launching a series of posts on 'What is mediated discourse research?' to showcase exemplary papers investigating mediated discourse through various research methods and tools.
First ideas in the post 🔽
Stay tuned for more!
#MediatedDiscourse

4️⃣Indexing of social values via "covid" or "virus" on Twitter, by P. Cooper & S.  Lampropoulou
5️⃣ Blame in repies to government's social media, by @stenhansson.bsky.social & R. Page

Available ▶️🔗 bit.ly/3TdCMHr

🚨New issue of #DCM_Journal published! 🚨
Contents 🔽
1️⃣How new members of a sex offenders become part of a community of practice, by E. Chiang
2️⃣Role of body movements in video games play, by @buraktekin.bsky.social
3️⃣How AI interprets text-image relations in racist memes, by C. Polli & M.G. Sindoni

Dialogic analysis of government social media communication: How commanding and thanking elicit blame During major crises, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, government officeholders issue commands to change people’s behaviour (e.g., ‘Stay at home!’) and e…

Dialogic analysis of government social media communication: How commanding and thanking elicit blame www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨New paper published🚨
@stenhansson.bsky.social & Ruth Page look at social media communication during the #Covid19 pandemic.
They explore the relation between thanking and blaming.
With methodological insight on corpus compilation and framework for analysis of blaming.
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Summary of findings about how the disciplined body involves designing movement so that these can be easily recognised by the machine.

🚨New paper published!🚨
In this paper @BurakSTekin analyses the "disciplined body" in video games🎮.
Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, insights are gained on the relation between humans and machines.
Highlights 🔽
🔗 bit.ly/3OM8ABS

📣Thinking about where to publish? 📣
#DCM_Journal is always open to submissions on the relationship between discourse, mediated communication & context
🔗Read our aims & scope: bit.ly/3NdXepA
Doubts about what we understand as mediated discourse? See the📷🔽 #Discourse