Driving Change on Twitter: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of the Twitter Debates on the Saudi Ban on Women Driving

Altoaimy, Lama

doi:10.3390/socsci7050081

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“…According to Khamis (2013), social media has been an important and effective tool for women in the MENA region to raise their voices and educate women about their fundamental rights. For example, Altoaimy (2018) explored how Saudi women used Twitter to share their opinions on social issues in their country, particularly regarding Saudi women not being able to drive and the use of hashtags to raise awareness around driving rights. It is essential to point out that, to date, most of the literature focused on Muslim women’s social media activism has mainly focused on the MENA region (S.…”

Section: Literature Review: Muslim Women Sport and Digital Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim Sportswomen as Digital Space Invaders: Hashtag Politics and Everyday Visibilities

Ahmad

Thorpe

2020

Communication & Sport

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This article examines the ways Muslim sportswomen are using social media to challenge stereotypical representations and to build community. Drawing from an 8-month digital ethnography of 50 different social media profiles across four different platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter) and interviews with 20 Muslim sportswomen, we reveal some of the various ways they are using social media to challenge dominant portrayals of Muslim women as in need of “saving”. We draw upon and elaborate Nirmal Puwar’s concept of “space invaders” to explain how Muslim sportswomen are using social media to challenge dominant discourses, build connections, and represent aspects of their sporting lives in culturally specific ways. The article focuses on two key strategies of the sportswomen, firstly their political use of hashtags and secondly the diverse politics of everyday visibilities. Ultimately, this article creates space for Muslim sportswomen’s voices to reveal the various culturally specific forms of agency and politics being employed in the digital realm.

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Section: Literature Review: Muslim Women Sport and Digital Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim Sportswomen as Digital Space Invaders: Hashtag Politics and Everyday Visibilities

Ahmad

Thorpe

2020

Communication & Sport

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“…A survey of the literature of corpus critical discourse studies (CDS for short) addressing gender issues, especially those related to women, in the Saudi context shows that few studies were conducted in this regard. Most of these studies focused on specific issues such as the ban on women driving (Alenazy, 2017;Aljarallah, 2017;Altoaimy, 2018), the representation of gender, social power, identity options and cultural elements in EFL textbooks in Saudi Arabia (Al Jumiah, 2016;Aljuaythin, 2018;Alshammri, 2017;Sulaimani, 2017), women-related posts on Saudi blogs (Al Maghlouth, 2017), and more specifically the representation of Saudi women in the British newspapers (Bashatah, 2017) and the Saudi newspapers (Al Hejin, 2012;Kurdi, 2014). In what follows, we report on the key findings of the studies which addressed the different topics related to Saudi women in journalistic discourse.…”

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The Journalistic Representations of Saudi Women in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): A Corpus Critical Discourse Analysis

Altohami¹,

Salama²

2019

IJEL

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This paper is a corpus critical discourse analysis of the journalistic representations of Saudi women as they appear in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (Davies, 2008). It follows a sociocognitive approach (van Dijk, 2008) to explore the thematic foci discussing issues related to Saudi women and to discuss the discursive strategies implemented to propagate such issues. The study has reached four findings. First, the thematic foci related to Saudi women are textually and referentially coherent as they were meant to provide a grand narrative underlying a specific context model. Second, Saudi women are negatively represented as no social roles are ascribed to them throughout the corpus. Third, different social actors are also represented alongside Saudi women to put them in a wider socio-cultural context to aggravate their problems. Finally, the most effective discursive strategies which mediated the running context model included victimization, categorization, stereotyping, normalization, and exaggeration.

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“…Unlike previous studies on vision 2030 (e.g., Alharbi, 2018;Altoaimy, 2018;Bah, 2018;Daghestani et al, 2018;Dahim, 2018;Mitchell & Alfuraih, 2018), this study analyzed how women's empowerment was reproduced in the Saudi press as a matter of public and national concern, vis-à-vis vision 2030, which was largely neglected.…”

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“…The study concluded that an increase in gasoline prices contributed to short-term and intermediate-term decreases in on-road traffic accidents, injuries, and fatalities. Altoaimy (2018) explored the use of Twitter in the debate on women's right to drive in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study investigated how gender roles and the relationship between the genders were navigated in such debates.…”

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The Saudi Vision 2030: Reproduction of Women’s Empowerment in the Saudi Press: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

Afzal

Omar

2021

Register J.

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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has witnessed unprecedented reforms within the framework of the Saudi Vision 2030. However, despite prolific news reports related to economic, social, and political reforms associated with the Saudi Vision 2030, there is a general lack of studies on the ideological constructions of these reforms in the Saudi press. As thus, this study seeks to explore the news representation and ideological construction of the vision 2030 reforms in the Saudi press. It focuses on the reproduction of women’s empowerment in the Saudi press. For this purpose, a corpus of 1578 newspaper articles, reports, stories, and editorials published in Arab News and Saudi Gazette is designed. Analysis of the data is carried out through corpus-based critical discourse analysis (CDA) quantitatively and qualitatively through a concordance, frequency, collocates, and dispersion. Results indicated that the Saudi press, under its ideological orientation, reproduced the vision 2030 as a matter of public interest. Both newspapers exhibited a great inclination towards endorsing women’s empowerment as stipulated in the vision. The Saudi Vision’s representation of women’s empowerment was reflected and reproduced in many ways in newspapers’ articles, reports, stories, and editorials. This study was limited to the newspaper content released after the emergence of the Saudi Vision in 2016. Further research is recommended on the influence of the Saudi press on the representation of women’s rights discourse in the Saudi Vision 2030; it may also include the public opinion about such transformational reforms.Keywords: corpus-based CDA, discourse reproduction, newspaper representations, Saudi Vision 2030, women’s empowerment

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Driving Change on Twitter: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of the Twitter Debates on the Saudi Ban on Women Driving

Cited by 22 publications

References 36 publications

Muslim Sportswomen as Digital Space Invaders: Hashtag Politics and Everyday Visibilities

Muslim Sportswomen as Digital Space Invaders: Hashtag Politics and Everyday Visibilities

The Journalistic Representations of Saudi Women in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): A Corpus Critical Discourse Analysis

The Saudi Vision 2030: Reproduction of Women’s Empowerment in the Saudi Press: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis

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