Interpretative repertoires of long-term weight management: negotiating accountability and explaining success

Joki, Anu; Venäläinen, Satu; Konttinen, Hanna; Mäkelä, Johanna; Fogelholm, Mikael

doi:10.1080/08870446.2022.2043316

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“…The news articles were analyzed using the critical discursive psychology (CDP) approach. CDP and other similar discursive methodologies ‘see language as constructing versions of social reality rather than as an accurate representation of individuals' opinions or thoughts’ (Joki, Venäläinen, Konttinen, Mäkelä, & Fogelholm, 2022: 4). A CDP approach takes the notion that people are concurrently the products and producers of discourse (Billig, 1991 as cited in Locke & Budds, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since speakers are not always drawing on a single large discourse, the CDP approach makes use of interpretive repertoires, which are relatively coherent ways of speaking about specific topics (Joki et al., 2022). For example, the vocabulary and terminology vary when speakers discuss student privacy, the importance of technological progress, or growing concerns over children's mental health.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Schools engaged in doom‐monitoring students' online interactions and content creation: an analysis of dominant media discourses

Kikerpill

Siibak

2022

Child Adoles Ment Health

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Background: Growing public concern about the safety and security of schools has led many schools and school districts within the United States to hire private companies to monitor students' online interactions and the content they create, including on social media. The use of such technologies supposedly increases schools' awareness of what students are doing online and, thus, helps to identify and prevent potential issues such as mental health problems, cyberbullying, or self-harm that might otherwise go unnoticed. However, there is currently no evidence to support that social media surveillance or content monitoring is able to effectively address these public health and safety issues. Methods: Thus, our study explores how the different voices present in the discoursestudents, school officials, privacy advocates, and service providers' representativesjustify or condemn the surveillance of student-produced online content in publicly available news media articles. We adopt a critical discursive psychology approach to study news articles, which were published in international media in the last 3 years (2019 N = 53; 2020 N = 56; 2021 N = 77), reporting on the use of digital surveillance technologies targeting student-produced content. Results and conclusions: Three dominant interpretive repertoires emerged from the analyzed news media articles: 'silenced students, expert adults', 'a solution in search of a problem', and 'the normalization of surveillance for a good cause'. Our findings show that, under the auspices of protecting children, schools are actively engaged in 'doom-monitoring', which is the indiscriminate and inaccurate surveillance of people in anticipation of the next bad thing. The opinions and views of adults, including school officials, vendors, and civil liberties advocates, dominate over the voices of students. Key Practitioner Message• Schools use digital surveillance tools to 'doom-monitor' students on a mass scale.• Doom-monitoring is the indiscriminate and inaccurate surveillance of people in anticipation of the next bad thing. • In discussions of school surveillance, student voices are mostly silent, and adults speak for them.• Doom-monitoring success stories are anecdotal but reports of negative effects, for example the 'chilling effect' on students' free expression, are common.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Methods and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%