Securitization Theory: A Matter of Words

Hirschauer, Sabine

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“…Extreme and emergency actions should have been implemented. Consequently, it seemed that the disinformation-laced new stories promoted the idea of a securitized object (ST) broadening the ways that a security threat can be spread (Buzan et al, 1998;Hirschauer, 2014;Monsees, 2020).…”

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“…In this way, it is believed that almost every subject can be securitized, even ideological and identity-related issues, such as the Prespes Agreement and the MND. With ST, a subject that was considered political can be moved to the security realm based on the construction of a discourse that empowers these beliefs (Buzan et al, 1998;Hirschauer, 2014;Van Dijk, 2013).…”

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“…Subsequently, the acts of speech (or communication methods) should not be studied only as plain sentences, but as constructions that have power belonging to a discourse, which can create a socially mutual belief system that supports a dominant knowledge favoring certain groups, or individuals (Buzan et al, 1998;Hirschauer, 2014;Van Dijk, 2013). In the current paper, based on Mealier et al (2017), the term "constructions" refers to the grammatical mechanisms establishing connections between words that give actions and attributes to objects.…”

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Disinformation and weaponized communication: The spread of ideological hate about the Macedonian name in Greece

Karyotakis

2023

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The study examined through ideological discourse analysis (IDA) 38 widely spread disinformation-laced news stories (or “fake news”) regarding the Macedonian Name Dispute (MND) and the “Prespes Agreement” in the years 2018 and 2019. The paper explores the ideological narratives and constructions disseminated through the disinformation-laced news stories during these 2 years. Therefore, the study expands the relevant literature regarding democracy, disinformation, and hate campaigns by examining the ideological narratives and constructions disseminated through the disinformation-laced news stories during that two-years-period. The findings showed that those news stories were successfully weaponized and resulted in empowering identity characteristics and ideological narratives through the distancing method (us vs them), the alienation with elements of dramatization (e.g. territorial loss of the Greek Macedonia due to the “Prespes Agreement”), and the sense of victimization and dehumanization that demanded emergency actions to protect the ingroup (Greece) from the outgroup (North Macedonia and its Greek assistants).

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Public Leadership's Messaging During Public Health Crises - Challenges and Opportunities From Mask-Wearing Messaging During The covid-19 Pandemic

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Boštíková²

2022

Mil. Med. Sci. Lett.

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Given their primacy in discussions over public health measures throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper focuses on leadership's messages around masks and mask-wearing, aiming to emphasise the responsibility of leadership in the formation of norms during public health crises. It argues for the importance of robust messaging as a key factor in confidence building and public abidance to health measures, using the shortcomings in mask-wearing communication as a case study. For this purpose, the paper first discusses securitization theory and places it in the context of health to build on risk communication framework. Secondly, it examines the role of leadership and meaning-making in that process by discussing the WHO's early mask guidance and consequent challenges at the state-level by political and health leadership. Lastly, the paper confirms the importance of citizenry's successful reception of health guidance and outlines potential tactics to do so. Having discussed that, the paper addresses other hindrances to public health messaging and confidence-building that rest outside official communication, namely disinformation and misinformation but also negative non-discursive messaging. This, with the aim of building on available literature on the development of epidemiological response and management from a security lens.

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Securitization Theory: A Matter of Words

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Disinformation and weaponized communication: The spread of ideological hate about the Macedonian name in Greece

Disinformation and weaponized communication: The spread of ideological hate about the Macedonian name in Greece

Public Leadership's Messaging During Public Health Crises - Challenges and Opportunities From Mask-Wearing Messaging During The covid-19 Pandemic

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