Discourses that silence and deflect attention away from the interests of low-wage workers experiencing job loss

Gunn, Amanda M.

doi:10.1080/17405904.2011.533569

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“…The active concealing of information may have a deceptive intent (Carson, 2001). The same applies for false information and silence as discursive control mechanism (Gunn, 2011). As we have shown in the analysis, the information as well as withholding information (and even misleading) play an important role in the CN process and the discursive construction of management-by-fear.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Usually the formal memos of the meetings are public but not the proceedings themselves. The subjectsemployees, experts, individuals -become objects in and of the negotiation process (see also Gunn, 2011). According to Luomanen (2009), subjectivity plays a significant role in fear: subjectivity contains the ability to stay in control and awareness of the scope of action available to the person who faces the fear.…”

Section: Role Of the Employees Vs Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(Carson, 2001.) False information can -in addition to silence -be used as a deceptive discursive mechanism of control (Gunn, 2011).…”

Section: Information and Confidentiality Vs Lacking Information And mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Discursive Dance: The Employee Co-operation Negotiations as an Arena for Management-by-fear

Pynnönen

Takala

2015

J Bus Ethics

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The purpose of this article is to qualitatively describe and critically explain the discursive construction of employee co-operation negotiations in Finland as an arena for management-by-fear. The article consists of a theoretical review, covering the legislative basis of co-operation negotiations and recent research on management-by-fear. The empirical study consists of media texts and company media releases in Finland in 2012-2013. The main conclusions are that there are distinctive features in the co-operation negotiations that enable and enforce the possibility of management-by-fear and thus, destructive leadership. The process, supported by law and very much against the original aim, enhances authoritative leadership, objectification of employees, distortion of information and misleading, and the negative consequences thereof. The process is an employer-invited discursive dance where the employee has to follow through the set steps and in the set rhythm, with the media orchestrating the tune and managing the fear. The study adds a valuable element to the research areas of downsizing, bad management, and the discursive construction of these phenomena.

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confidence: 82%

Section: Role Of the Employees Vs Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Discursive Dance: The Employee Co-operation Negotiations as an Arena for Management-by-fear

Pynnönen

Takala

2015

J Bus Ethics

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“…In other words, the phenomenon we aim to investigate is culture, and we access culture by examining how the texts that culture creates describe disability and accessibility. Our specific approach to discourse analysis stems from the critical discourse analysis tradition, as typified by Gunn (2011), but with a focus on journalism or news values as argued for by Bednarek and Caple (2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Disability and Video Games Journalism: A Discourse Analysis of Accessibility and Gaming Culture

Anderson

Schrier

2021

Games and Culture

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In this article, we conduct a discourse analysis of 60 articles to reveal themes that describe how games journalism reflects and constitutes understandings of disability and accessibility in gaming. First, we map prior research on media’s relationship to disability, as well as approaches to disability in game studies, including the introduction of two primary paradigms for addressing issues of accessibility in gaming. Second, the project reveals six thematic categories that describe how game journalism reflects and constitutes understandings of disability and accessibility in gaming: gamers with disabilities, portraying disability, game design, game controllers, discussing accessibility, and advocacy. Further comparison of the categories reveals four additional themes of discourses, namely, self-congratulations, fetishization, awareness as advocacy, and problem-solving. The article concludes with implications for the games industry, for theory, and for how the field of game studies can investigate disability.

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Chapter 2: Discursive Control Using Emotion and Economics During a Financial Crisis

Schwarzkopf

Sigurjónsson²

2018

The Return of Trust? Institutions and the Public After the Icelandic Financial Crisis

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Discourses that silence and deflect attention away from the interests of low-wage workers experiencing job loss

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

The Discursive Dance: The Employee Co-operation Negotiations as an Arena for Management-by-fear

The Discursive Dance: The Employee Co-operation Negotiations as an Arena for Management-by-fear

Disability and Video Games Journalism: A Discourse Analysis of Accessibility and Gaming Culture

Chapter 2: Discursive Control Using Emotion and Economics During a Financial Crisis

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