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Digital practice as discriminatory discourse

Technological meaningmaking, affect, and representation of Henan people on Chinese news portals

Abstract

This chapter incorporates and draws on the concept of affect to examine how users’ discursive practices are reshaped by the design of interactive digital platforms. An affective critical discourse analysis approach is developed to analyse the affective-discursive loop by using Internet users’ practice of regional discriminatory discourses against Henan people as a case study. Through a comparison between users’ differing practices on two major Chinese news portals – Tencent and NetEase – this chapter reveals the extent to which regional discrimination is amplified by the locative IP-address function of NetEase news portal’s user commentary system. This chapter makes a methodological contribution in response to the CDS notion of discursive power in the digital realm.

Abstract

This chapter incorporates and draws on the concept of affect to examine how users’ discursive practices are reshaped by the design of interactive digital platforms. An affective critical discourse analysis approach is developed to analyse the affective-discursive loop by using Internet users’ practice of regional discriminatory discourses against Henan people as a case study. Through a comparison between users’ differing practices on two major Chinese news portals – Tencent and NetEase – this chapter reveals the extent to which regional discrimination is amplified by the locative IP-address function of NetEase news portal’s user commentary system. This chapter makes a methodological contribution in response to the CDS notion of discursive power in the digital realm.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Connecting the digital with the social in digital discourse 1
  4. Digital distribution processes and “new” research tools in SM-CDS 15
  5. Digital practice as discriminatory discourse 38
  6. Social media soft affective politics through discursive and algorithmic synchronization 60
  7. Towards an ethnographic approach to social media discourses 83
  8. Unpacking disinformation as social media discourse 107
  9. Language typology as a discursive affordance in digital discourse 127
  10. Online counterspeech and the targeting of digital discourses of racism in New Zealand 146
  11. Sexism in digital discourses of women 167
  12. A journal of impossible things 187
  13. Index 209
Social Media and Society
This chapter is in the book Social Media and Society
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.100.03pen

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Connecting the digital with the social in digital discourse 1
  4. Digital distribution processes and “new” research tools in SM-CDS 15
  5. Digital practice as discriminatory discourse 38
  6. Social media soft affective politics through discursive and algorithmic synchronization 60
  7. Towards an ethnographic approach to social media discourses 83
  8. Unpacking disinformation as social media discourse 107
  9. Language typology as a discursive affordance in digital discourse 127
  10. Online counterspeech and the targeting of digital discourses of racism in New Zealand 146
  11. Sexism in digital discourses of women 167
  12. A journal of impossible things 187
  13. Index 209
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