In Defense of Textual Analysis

Reframing the sustainable development goals to achieve sustainable development in the Anthropocene—a systems approach

“…Critical analysis enables identification of latent meaning as well as implicit patterns, assumptions, and omissions within a text (Fürsich 2009). Critical analysis in this paper consists of an evaluation of the extent to which the SDG text facilitates https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss3/art22/ realization of the sustainable development end goal.…”

“Who Does Not Dare, Is a Pussy.” A Textual Analysis of Media Panics, Youth, and Sexting in Print Media

“…The current societal debates on the portrayal of youth, social media, and sexuality do not only occur in print media news stories, but are also based on it, which is making print media a decisive actor in the shaping and circulating of public discourses. We have opted for a textual analysis because of the narrative character of the data and its potential as (1) a site of ideological negotiation; and (2) a site in which current societal debates on representations of youth, digital media, and sexuality are played out (Fürsich, 2009). By conducting a textual analysis of newspaper coverage of youth sexting, we can focus on the latent meanings of the text, such as their underlying ideological and cultural assumptions, in order to make sense of youth sexuality and social media (Fürsich, 2009;McKee, 2003).…”

Objective Reporting or Mouthpiece for The Opposition Groups?: A Study of Malaysiakini Coverage of The 2013 Malaysian General Election

“…Fowler (1991) regards news not as 'facts about the world', but as a construction of 'idea ', 'beliefs', 'values', 'theories', 'propositions' or 'ideology' (p. 1). Fürsich (2009) further explains that 'media texts present a distinctive discursive moment between encoding and decoding … and its potential as a site of ideological negotiation and its impact as mediated "reality" necessities interpretation in its own right ' (2009, p. 238).…”