Neoliberalizing news discourse: A semio-discursive reading of news gamification

Fawzy, Rania Magdi

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“…neoliberalism). For example, Magdi Fawzy (2019) proposes a discursive approach to examine how gamified news discourse is colonized by the neoliberal values of marketization and commodification, and seven neoliberal discourses are highlighted. In addition, media coverage on mental illness and its effect on public beliefs and attitudes toward mental health problems have long been and still are a topic of scholarly interest (Cabrera et al, 2018; McGinty et al, 2016).…”

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“…Yazgan and Utku (2017) examines the discriminatory aspects of the online news discourse covering these gang wars to reveal the forms of anti-immigrant bias. Drawing on CDA, Magdi Fawzy (2019) proposes a discursive approach to examine how gamified news discourse is colonized by the neoliberal values of marketization, and points out that a dialectical relation between discourse, semiotics and neoliberal ideologies in the context of gamification have been highlighted. What’s more, Mustafa-Awad and Kirner-Ludwig (2021) examine topical frames reflected in articles published about Syrian refugees by German, British, and American news websites and provide further discursive evidence for the variation in refugees’ representations in news discourse and for the influence of media on public opinions.…”

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A CiteSpace-based analysis of the application of Critical Discourse Analysis in news discourse

2022

Discourse & Communication

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Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies has been applied in the study of news discourse for more than 30 years. In order to gain an in-depth understanding of the research in this field, this article uses the Web of Science core database to investigate their evolution and envision of the application of CDA/CDS in news discourse. Moreover, CiteSpace is employed to draw visualization maps of scientific knowledge of this field, hoping to provide the meaningful guidance for the later research. The results are as follows: (1) The diversification and multi-dimension of theoretical approaches and analytical methods is a highlight of CDA applied in news discourse; (2) Various theories of other disciplines combined with CDA have been embraced by news discourse such as journalism, ecology, politics, sociology, and cognitive psychology, which shows the advancement and diversification of interdisciplinary trends in news discourse; (3) The application of CDA in news discourse covers various research domains from people’s livelihood issues to national strategic issues; (4) The availability of emerging corpus analysis tools has helped the application of CDA in news discourse to spur on further (critical) discourse excursions with corpora, promoting the comprehensiveness and accuracy of the research advances in this field.

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A CiteSpace-based analysis of the application of Critical Discourse Analysis in news discourse

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“…First, we adopted a semiodiscursive perspective to analyse the textual information and visual content (e.g. stable image and video) in vaccine diplomacy-themed posts (Alexis et al 2016;Magdi Fawzy 2019).…”

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Understanding China's “intermestic” online vaccination-themed narrative strategy

Huang¹,

Zhang²

2022

COVID-19, Communication and Culture

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The aim of this chapter is to analyse China's vaccination-themed narratives published by its state-owned media on both domestic and international social media platforms (Weibo and Twitter). Analysis has been carried out on Beijing's intermestic online communication strategy to promote its domestic vaccines, motivate global vaccination, and increase public confidence in the quality and efficiency of domestic vaccines. As part of China's vaccine diplomacy and public diplomacy during the pandemic, Beijing's intermestic vaccinationthemed narratives addressed domestic and foreign communities and displayed the government's international responsibilities through visual content, subtly legitimising China's political initiative for a global community of health for all.

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“…Indeed, the development of social media has transformed online news production. A “new form of writing” has emerged to promote online message transmission, dialogue and interaction between textual and visual resources (Magdi Fawzy, 2019, p. 5). For Ledin and Machin (2019), such practice can “increase [the communicator's] control over communication” (p. 168).…”

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An intermestic approach to China's public diplomacy: a case study of Beijing's COVID-19 communication in the early stages

Huang

Wang

2022

JCOM

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PurposeThe aim of this study was to examine the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak and the international communication management of Chinese diplomats as a case for extending the definition of intermestic public diplomacy. The goal was to reveal how Beijing subtly used both domestic and foreign social media to organize a network for communication about COVID-19 and purposefully soften the highly centralized and hierarchical political propaganda of the Communist Party of China (CPC).Design/methodology/approachBased on the literature on digital public diplomacy, the authors applied the existing concept of intermestic to Chinese politics in order to demonstrate the digitalization of public diplomacy, along with its forms and strategies under an authoritarian regime. A hybrid methodology combining quantitative network analysis and qualitative discourse analysis permits examination of China's intermestic online communication network dynamics, shedding light on how such an intermestic practice promoted Chinese values and power to international publics in the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis.FindingsThe authors’ findings extend the implications of intermestic public diplomacy from a democratic context to an authoritarian one. By analyzing the content of public diplomacy and para-diplomatic social media accounts in China and abroad at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the authors outlined China's early crisis management, explaining its intermestic public diplomacy transmission modes and strategies. Moreover, the authors identified changes in the narrative strategies of Chinese diplomats and journalists during this process.Social implicationsThe findings of this study underline that Beijing established a narrative-making virtual communication structure for disseminating favorable Chinese strategic narratives and voices through differentiated communication on domestic and foreign social media platforms. Such intermestic communication strategies were particularly evident and even further weaponized by Beijing in its large-scale Wolf Warrior diplomacy in the spring of 2020. Thus, the study’s findings help readers understand how China digitalized its public diplomacy, its digital communication patterns and strategies.Originality/valueOn the one hand, geopolitical uncertainty and the popularity of social media have contributed to the evolution of the intermestic model of public diplomacy. This model allows actors to coordinate homogenous and differentiated communication practices to deploy their influence. On the other hand, the authors did not examine how intermestic audiences perceive and receive public diplomacy practices. In future studies, scholars should measure the agenda-setting capacity of diplomatic actors by examining the effects of such intermestic communication efforts.

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Neoliberalizing news discourse: A semio-discursive reading of news gamification

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

A CiteSpace-based analysis of the application of Critical Discourse Analysis in news discourse

A CiteSpace-based analysis of the application of Critical Discourse Analysis in news discourse

Understanding China's “intermestic” online vaccination-themed narrative strategy

An intermestic approach to China's public diplomacy: a case study of Beijing's COVID-19 communication in the early stages

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