Ideology of ‘Here and Now'

Kopytowska, Monika

doi:10.1080/17405904.2015.1013485

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“…Since that time "mediatization" has become one of the key words in the literature discussing the functioning of contemporary media and their interface with society (Agha 2011;Bennet and Entman 2001;Ekström 2001;Schulz 2004). In this process, media transform society on both the collective and individual levels, firstly, by creating a common spatiotemporal, cognitive and axiological sphere of shared experience (Hepp 2013;Kopytowska 2013Kopytowska , 2014Kopytowska , 2015Krotz 2007Krotz , 2009, and, secondly, by substituting for social activities, which previously took place face-to-face (Schulz 2004). Since September 11, the mediatization of terrorism (and the subsequent war on terror) has played a key role in constructing the threat coming from the distant other and justifying preventive actions.…”

Section: Diversity and Common Groundmentioning

confidence: 97%

Discourse of hate and radicalism in action

Kopytowska¹

2015

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Section: Diversity and Common Groundmentioning

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Discourse of hate and radicalism in action

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2015

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“…Social media have expanded the global public sphere past the geospatial and territorial limits of the traditional public sphere. Kopytowska (2013Kopytowska ( , 2015Kopytowska ( a, 2015bKopytowska ( , 2015c refers to this expansion as the mediated public sphere, in which the netizens (citizens of the mediated public sphere) collaboratively construct new realities (Naseem, 2015(Naseem, , 2020Arshad-Ayaz, 2020). The anonymity, instantaneous access, and interactive nature of virtual environments make them ideal sites for the propagation of hate speech.…”

Section: Canadian Youth's Perceptions Of Hate Speech and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Perspectives of Muslim and Minority Canadian Youth on Hate Speech and Social Media

Arshad-Ayaz¹,

Naseem²,

Hizaoui³

2022

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In this article, we highlight the perspectives of marginalized Canadian youth regarding hate speech on social media. Specifically, our research focus is on the complexity and intersectionality involved in cyber violence, especially in relation to marginalized identities. Twenty-five participants aged 18 to 25 studying at a central Canadian University (from an initial sample of 90 participants) who self-identified as victims of hate speech were invited to share their experiences and narrate their stories. Research results demonstrate that online hate speech is growing in Canada to an extent where it is has become normalized. This has serious implications for the well-being of Canadian youth - both perpetrators and victims of hate speech. The main targets of hate speech on social media in Canada are immigrants and minorities, particularly Muslims. Results show that online hate speech has significant consequences for the lives of Canadian youth. The repercussions for the victim's mental and physical well-being manifest in problems ranging from alienation, identity issues, deterioration of psychological and physical health to cyber and in-person bullying, and much more. The study concludes that while there are definite links between the rise of online hate speech, deterioration of mental and physical health, and increased attacks on immigrants and minorities, not much action has gone into policymaking and education to correct the situation.

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“…However, while acknowledging the role of the performative potential, of language in distance reduction, MPA argues that proximization not only between selected aspects of reality and the audience (representational dimension) but also between members of the audience (interpersonal dimension) is possible thanks to "technological affordances" (Hutchby, 2001) of the media (Kopytowska forthcoming). Inextricably connected with "communicative deterritorialization" (Hepp 2013: 108), the cognitive and discursive nature of the proximization process enables both co-presence and mediated experience (Kopytowska 2013(Kopytowska , 2015a(Kopytowska , 2015b(Kopytowska , 2015c(Kopytowska , 2018a(Kopytowska , 2018b, satisfying in this way the already mentioned human "compulsion for proximity" (Boden and Molotch 1994: 258, 277).…”

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“…These three focal points entail bringing in a number of concepts, assumptions and hypotheses from both Critical Discourse Studies and research on online communication and identity, in particular in times of threat and crisis. The Media Proximization Approach (Kopytowska 2013(Kopytowska , 2015a(Kopytowska , 2015b(Kopytowska , 2015c(Kopytowska , 2018a(Kopytowska , 2018b with notions of proximity and distance at its core will also be adopted here to explicate online incivility, along with stereotyping and discursive construction of us vs. them. Following Fairclough and Wodak (1997: 273), we work on the assumption that three broad domains of social life, namely representations of the world, social relations between people, and personal identities, are constituted discursively.…”

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Online incivility in times of Covid-19: Social disunity and misperceptions of tourism industry in Poland

Kopytowska

Krakowiak

2020

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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Lockdowns and other counter-measures introduced by governments around the globe in the aftermath of the outbreak of coronavirus dealt a serious blow to tourism and the hospitality industry. Faced with bankruptcy and closure, tourism-related businesses raised the alarm and called for government support, which in turn triggered numerous comments from online audiences. Focusing on such online discourses and the incivility they abound with, the present article aims to address various aspects of the interface between the crisis, online communication and social polarization, as well as the constitutive and constituted nature of discourse. We bring under scrutiny the response of the online public to appeals from the tourism industry, working on the assumption that these Internet comments, in terms of content and form, have been considerably shaped by three factors, namely (1) public perception of the tourism industry, (2) culture-related emotionality patterns, as well as (3) techno-discursive design and the resulting dynamics of communication within cyberspace. Adopting the Media Proximization Approach (MPA), together with the CDA perspective on discourse and representation, and drawing on insights from studies on online communication we analyze and discuss the corpus of online comments (53,043 words) following 21 articles on the crisis within the tourism industry in Poland published between 6 March and 23 June 2020. Our findings show that the response of the online public, which is predominantly negative and at times hostile, reflects the socio-political polarization in Poland, enhanced by the sense of threat to life and health as well as the scarcity of resources. Cyberspace and its technological affordances considerably affect solidarity and disunity dynamics through representational and interpersonal proximization, enabling creation and perpetuation of stereotypes along with values and emotions. Acting as proximization triggers, nomination, predication and argumentation strategies both reflect and shape knowledge and axiological preferences, which constitute an integral part of the construction of social reality.

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Ideology of ‘Here and Now'

Cited by 30 publications

References 57 publications

Discourse of hate and radicalism in action

Discourse of hate and radicalism in action

Perspectives of Muslim and Minority Canadian Youth on Hate Speech and Social Media

Online incivility in times of Covid-19: Social disunity and misperceptions of tourism industry in Poland

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