Participation and recontextualisation in New Media
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Michael S. Boyd
Abstract
The chapter explores the ways in which viewer comments are exploited by the YouTube community to interact with political discourse. The corpus-based study, based on three speeches by Barack Obama, aims to uncover the linguistic means adopted in text comments for positive and negative presentation and for recontextualisation of the speeches. In line with Critical Discourse Analysis, the work is premised on the assumption that the speeches rebroadcast on YouTube reshape linguistic and social practice by providing a wider reception and more direct access to institutionalized political discourse. Specifically, the work explores how interaction in the form of text comments influences the medium of YouTube, the discourse community and the genre of political speech. On a theoretical level the work considers the important issues of online identity and participation in the public sphere, with a focus on the various ways recontextualisation is exploited by commenters.
Abstract
The chapter explores the ways in which viewer comments are exploited by the YouTube community to interact with political discourse. The corpus-based study, based on three speeches by Barack Obama, aims to uncover the linguistic means adopted in text comments for positive and negative presentation and for recontextualisation of the speeches. In line with Critical Discourse Analysis, the work is premised on the assumption that the speeches rebroadcast on YouTube reshape linguistic and social practice by providing a wider reception and more direct access to institutionalized political discourse. Specifically, the work explores how interaction in the form of text comments influences the medium of YouTube, the discourse community and the genre of political speech. On a theoretical level the work considers the important issues of online identity and participation in the public sphere, with a focus on the various ways recontextualisation is exploited by commenters.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Positions of Parties and Political Cleavages between Parties in Texts 1
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PART I. Computational Methods for Political Text Analysis
- PART I: Introduction 23
- Comparing the Position of Canadian Political Parties using French and English Manifestos as Textual Data 27
- Leveraging Textual Sentiment Analysis with Social Network Modelling 47
- Issue Framing and Language Use in the Swedish Blogosphere 71
- Text to Ideology or Text to Party Status? 93
- Sentiment Analysis in Parliamentary Proceedings 117
- The Qualitative Analysis of Political Documents 135
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PART II. From Text to Political Positions via Discourse Analysis
- PART II: Introduction 163
- The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social Change 171
- Christians, Feminists, Liberals, Socialists, Workers and Employers 189
- Between Union and a United Ireland 207
- Systematic Stylistic Analysis 225
- Participation and recontextualisation in New Media 245
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PART III. Converging methods
- PART III: Introduction 271
- From Text to the Construction of Political Party Landscapes 275
- From Text to Political Positions 297
- About the authors 325
- Index 331
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Positions of Parties and Political Cleavages between Parties in Texts 1
-
PART I. Computational Methods for Political Text Analysis
- PART I: Introduction 23
- Comparing the Position of Canadian Political Parties using French and English Manifestos as Textual Data 27
- Leveraging Textual Sentiment Analysis with Social Network Modelling 47
- Issue Framing and Language Use in the Swedish Blogosphere 71
- Text to Ideology or Text to Party Status? 93
- Sentiment Analysis in Parliamentary Proceedings 117
- The Qualitative Analysis of Political Documents 135
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PART II. From Text to Political Positions via Discourse Analysis
- PART II: Introduction 163
- The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social Change 171
- Christians, Feminists, Liberals, Socialists, Workers and Employers 189
- Between Union and a United Ireland 207
- Systematic Stylistic Analysis 225
- Participation and recontextualisation in New Media 245
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PART III. Converging methods
- PART III: Introduction 271
- From Text to the Construction of Political Party Landscapes 275
- From Text to Political Positions 297
- About the authors 325
- Index 331
