Everyday opinions in news discussion forums: Public vernacular discourse

Johansson, Marjut

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2017.03.001

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“…These range from sudden, unexpected events, such as death events, including terrorist attacks and celebrity death to specific socio-political crises, such as Brexit, which have attracted intense reactions from local and global publics. The connection between offline disruptive news events and their online reactions create affective publics (Papacharissi 2015), whose reactions -from condolences to solidarity or from sadness to anger -stem from their private spheres and are made public in social media (Giaxoglou et al 2017;Johansson 2017).…”

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“…In online environments news is being collaboratively constructed by blending "subjective experience, opinion, and emotion within an ambient news environment" (Papacharissi and de Fatima Oliveira 2012, 273) and thus, contribute to the formation of public vernacular discourses (Johansson 2017). News environments attract users who are aligned with each other and get a sense of temporary belonging, while in social media discussions, there are also social actors who disagree and disalign with the stances expressed (Bolander and Locher 2017, 621-624).…”

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Johansson

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This introduction to the Special Issue on Networked Emotion and Stancetaking summarizes the individual and collective contribution of the included five research articles. We argue for the relevance of discourse-pragmatic theories, methods, and concepts for furnishing cross-disciplinary perspectives into the study of emotion online. Such perspectives are arguably needed in order to clarify the intricate connections between (re)presentations of emotion online and changing practices of news-making and news consumption, story sharing and participation, and public stancetaking in social media and beyond. We propose that empirical analyses of networked practices of stancetaking – epistemic, affective, or narrative – can pinpoint the construction and dissemination of different types of participant positions and stances, including multimodal ones, as well as the creation and uptake of specific frames for interpreting events and crises affectively.

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“…Social media have become a constitutive part of the dissemination and public discussion of news texts (Newman et al, 2018). A growing body of research considers online practices such as commenting (e.g., Dorostkar & Preisinger, 2017;Carlson, 2016;Craft, Vos, & Wolfgang, 2016;Johansson, 2017;Ziegele et al 2017) and sharing digital news (e.g., Kümpel, Karnowski, & Keyling, 2015;Kalogeropoulos et al, 2017;dos Santos, Lycarião, & de Aquino, 2019). In this research context, Harcup and O'Neill (2017) argued that shareability, i.e., the likeliness of news items to be recirculated and commented on via social media, is a contributing factor as to how the news is constructed on social media.…”

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More than recycled snippets of news

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2020

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Focusing on Facebook pages from public broadcasters in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland, this paper looks at ways in which written quotations and snippets of news are reused and shared in social media posts. Drawing on recent theorization of digital quotations as recontextualized discourse, the study deals with a specific genre of digital news: quote cards. The qualitative analysis identifies common design patterns, examines the functions of quote cards and shows how text and image are remixed and integrated into multimodal offerings, providing affordances for news-sharing practices and responses into political discourses.

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“…Keskustelujen aiheet ja kielellinen toiminta vaihtelevat hyvin paljon keskustelupalstan alustalta toiselle, eivätkä keskustelut edusta mitään tiettyä yhtä keskustelutyyppiä (activity type, Levinson 1992;ks . Arendholz 2017;Johansson 2017) . Näillä moninaisilla palstoilla keskustelijoiden kielenkäyttö on arkista ja epämuodollista, ja sitä voidaankin luonnehtia nykyaikaiseksi vernakulaariksi ilmaisuksi tai julkiseksi kansankieleksi (Coupland 2014;Johansson 2017, 8) .…”

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People 'kansa' in digital discourses. Corpus-assisted discourse analysis on Suomi24 discussion forum. In this paper, our objective is to analyze how participants use the word kansa 'people' on the largest discussion forum in Finland, called Suomi24 (Finland 24). Our main research questions are the following: 1) What kinds of discourses the forum participants relate to kansa 'people' and 2) what kinds of representations the writers attach to kansa and what kinds of meanings they construct for the term on the discussion forum. Our theoretical and methodological approach is based on corpus-assisted discourse analysis and on digital discourse analysis. Studying the data from two different perspectives with two different methods will give two complementary views on the discourses of kansa. In the first part of the study, we analyzed the 2,4-billion-token Suomi24 data in its entirety applying corpus-assisted discourse studies and keyword analysis in order to analyze the discourses and representations that the discussion participants attach to kansa. To this end, we extracted all paragraphs were the lemma kansa was used. Alltogether, the data contain about 829 000 occurrences of the lemma. In the second phase, we executed qualitative digital discourse analysis in which we focused on the positioning of the word kansa (people) by examining the type of linguistic action in the utterances where it was used, what kind of relation and agreement/isagreement writers expressed in relation to the topic and object of talk they were writing about. The first analysis showed that the most frequent discourses attached to kansa were religion, politics and power, ethnicity and society. In particular, these indicate that kansa is often represented through religion and that the discourses relate kansa strongly to nation-state, that is, independence, government and ethnic groups. Furthermore, kansa is often associated with inequality in the society, where parts of the kansa are seen as disfavoured. The second analysis, based on digital discourse analysis, reveals that the word people is used in the following five ways. First, kansa is positioned as either in the biblical sense or as religious people who blames others. Second, writers describe stupid people and they complain and blame while showing their disregard towards people. Third, people was described as victim, betrayed, and oppressed without access to power. Here, the writers complain and accuse. Forth, the people was described as social actor through the use of cognitive verbs and speech act verbs showing intelligence of this people to which the writers belonged. The last category was a mixed one that contained people as representative of a nation or described with some quality, such as sisukas kansa (persistent people, or people with guts). The results show that kansa (people) are used in very familiar and stereotypical ways. This word functions as part of an ideological discourse in the discussions in this forum that allow writers to build their self-image, distinguish themselves from the people or in order to legitimate their own position in a way that other writers recognize the shared and reproduced representation of people. In this way, this representation is part of this new kind of public vernacular discourse in various platforms of social media produced by ordinary people. However, these representations of the kansa (people) did not present any novel ways of understanding people. Avainsanat: verkkokeskustelu, korpusavusteinen diskurssintutkimus, avainsana-analyysi, digitaalinen diskurssianalyysi, representaatio

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Everyday opinions in news discussion forums: Public vernacular discourse

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