The nature, location, and dynamic of discursive power in Social Media, or broadly speaking
the participatory web, are fluid, changeable, and non-static. Social Media provides all forms …

This is a book about grammar, broadly conceived, and ideology. I do not mean here
attitudes towards grammar, such as the prescriptivism of people concerned with a perceived …

The communicative affordances of the participatory web have opened up new and
multifarious channels for the proliferation of hate. In particular, women navigating the …

The vast majority of adults and teenagers living in an affluent society use social media on a
daily basis (see, eg, Duggan and Smith 2013 for data about the USA). Increasingly, even …

The paper is a CDA investigation on discursive strategies employed by various British
newspapers between 1996–2006 in the ways they represent refugees, asylum seekers and …

The paper examines the intersection of technological design of Social Media
communication, the notion of post-politics-affective turn in contemporary (Western) societies …

Writing in the beginning of the 1980s, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe explored
possibilities for a new socialist strategy to capitalize on the period's fragmented political and …

This chapter outlines key theoretical and methodological aspects of critical discourse studies
(CDS) and suggests how they may be applied to social media data. After a brief overview of …

Despite significant research into media and political coverage of refugees and asylum
seekers, and ongoing Commonwealth policies to resettle refugees to regional areas …

Abstract “Climate change” and “global warming” are two popular terms that may be often
used interchangeably in news media. This study proposes to give a corpus-assisted …