1st Edition
Discourses of Ideology and Identity Social Media and the Iranian Election Protests
By Chris Featherman
Copyright 2015
206 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement ideologies and identities are discursively constructed in new and old media. In the context of his argument, Featherman also considers current debates surrounding the role that technologies play in democracy-building and global activist networks. He engages these critical issues... Read more
1. Opening: Protesting the Results 2. 'Down with Potatoes!': Theory, Methods, Contexts 3. Constructing the Protestor's Identities in the U.S. Media 4. Borrowed Language: Symbolic Resources and Discursive Stance 5. Collective Action and Identifying across Networks 6. Effervescence or Resonance?: Closings
Biography
Chris Featherman is an applied linguist and Lecturer in English at Northeastern University, USA
