Do New Media Support New Policy Narratives? The Social Construction of the U.S.-Mexico Border on YouTube

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna L. Lybecker ◽  
Mark K. McBeth ◽  
Maria A. Husmann ◽  
Nicholas Pelikan
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
The U.S

The dress: Theme and self-presentation in online Australian wedding planning fora

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-81
Author(s):  
Brenda Laskey ◽  
Lesley Stirling
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Cultural Object ◽  
Construction Of Identity ◽  
The Social

This investigation of the discourse of Australian women in the ‘new media’ context of online special interest advice fora contributes to theory about the ways in which language encodes cultural practices and mediates the social construction of identity. The linguistic self-presentation of participants in 588 asynchronous written posts to wedding planning fora was analysed. Prevalent themes were identified inductively and the degree to which each identified theme was evident in the data was measured. The study uncovered ways in which group membership criteria were expressed and found that traditional ideals of feminine perfection were reinforced. A focus of the investigation was the ways in which the participants spoke about the wedding dress. At times, it was referred to using personification as though it were a proxy for a lover. On other occasions, it appeared to function as a representation of the writer’s idealized bridal self. It emerged as a highly significant cultural object which conferred a special but temporary identity.

The Social Construction of a Crisis: Policy Narratives and Contemporary U.S. Obesity Policy

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark K. McBeth ◽  
Randy S. Clemons ◽  
Maria A. Husmann ◽  
Elizabeth Kusko ◽  
Alethea Gaarden
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Obesity Policy

scholarly journals The discursive construction of migrant otherness on Facebook: A distributional semantics approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Yantseva
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Distributional Semantics ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Technological Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Linguistic Labels

The goal of this work is to study the social construction of migrant categories and immigration discourse on Swedish Facebook in the last decade. I combine the insights from computational linguistics and distributional semantics approach with those from classical sociological theories in order to explore a corpus of more than 1M Facebook posts. This allows to compare the intended meanings of various linguistic labels denoting voluntary versus forced character of migration, as well as to distinguish the most salient themes that constitute the Facebook discourse. The study concludes that, although Facebook seems to have the highest potential in the promotion of tolerance and support for migrants, its audience is nevertheless active in the discursive discrimination of those identified as "refugees" or "immigrants". The results of the study are then related to the technological design of new media and the overall social and political climate surrounding the Swedish immigration agenda.

The Authenticity Paradox: Why the Returns to Authenticity on Audience Appeal Decrease in Popularity and Iconicity

2020 ◽  
pp. 014920632095041
Author(s):  
J. Cameron Verhaal ◽  
Stanislav D. Dobrev
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Craft Beer ◽  
Audience Appeal ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

A great deal of research has argued for authenticity as a key firm-level attribute and source of competitive advantage. But we know very little about the boundary conditions related to organizational authenticity. In order to address this, we develop a theory of the social construction of authenticity, how it affects the appeal of a producer’s offerings, and how the market success of these offerings affects the returns to authenticity. We propose that there are two mechanisms, in addition to authenticity, that can drive audience appeal: popularity and iconicity. But increases in both popularity and iconicity also challenge some of the underlying tenets of what the audience considers authentic, namely, intrinsic motivation and the pursuit of social, rather than economic, value. The authenticity paradox, then, is that even as the appeal of authentic offerings increases, their popularity and iconicity diminish the returns to authenticity. We find support for these ideas in the context of the U.S. market for craft beer and discuss the implications of our theory for authenticity research and for the broader market and social dynamics in craft industries.

scholarly journals Guns don’t kill people…: good guys and the legitimization of gun violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Stroud
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Social ◽  
Concealed Carry ◽  
Legitimate Violence ◽  
The U.S

AbstractBuilding on literatures that examine why firearms are appealing and to whom and employing Weber’s concept of “legitimate violence”, this paper utilizes an online concealed carry forum to critically analyze how firearm proliferation is rationalized in the U.S. The analysis focuses on three specific examples of violence—the Parkland, Florida, and Philando Castile shootings, and stories of children who find guns and shoot themselves and/or others. This work is a critical examination of the social construction of “legitimate violence” that deconstructs the discourses embedded in the “pro-gun” notion that the answer to gun violence is more guns.

scholarly journals Forgotten Border Actors: the Border Reinforcers. A Comparison Between the U.S.–Mexico Border and South American Borders

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Grimson ◽  
Pablo Vila
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
El Paso ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ciudad Juarez ◽  
South American ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good Neighbor ◽  
The U.S

This article is a critique of two different types of essentialisms that have gained widespread acceptance in places as distant as the U.S.-Mexico border and different Mercosur frontiers. Both essentialisms rely on metaphors that refer to the concept of "union," and put their emphasis on a variety of "sisterhood/brotherhood" tropes and, in particular, the "crossing" metaphor. This kind of stance tends to make invisible the social and cultural conflict that many times characterizes political frontiers. The article wants to reinstall this conflictive dimension. In that regard, we analyze two different case studies. The first is the history of a bridge constructed between Posadas, Argentina and Encarnación, Paraguay. The second is the community reaction toward an operation implemented by the Border Patrolin 1993 ("OperationBlockade") in a border that for many years was considered an exemplar of the "good neighbor relationships" between Mexico and the United States, the frontier between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. Key Words: U.S.-Mexico border, Operation Blockade, Mercosur frontier, political frontier, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, United States, Posadas, El Paso , Encarnación, Ciudad Juárez, Border Patrol.

scholarly journals THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF MASCULINITY ON NEW MEDIA: EKSI SOZLUK AND INTERPRETATIVE REPERTOIRES

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
Central Area ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpretative Repertoires ◽  
Critical Discursive Psychology

In this article, the entries about “being a man” on Ekşi Sözlük are analysed through the Critical Discursive Psychology approach. The extracts were analysed with the Critical Discursive Psychology approach and interpretative repertoires were revealed. As a result of the analysis, 6 different interpretative repertoires were obtained. In the first of these, “The ‘essence’ and ‘other’ inside the man” repertoire, being a man is explained based on the "natural-given" differences. In the "preoccupation with sexuality" repertoire, sexuality is positioned in the most central area of men's lives. In the "responsibilities and obligations" repertoire, being a man is defined by a number of responsibilities expected from men by society. In the "patriarchal system and the mother's son" repertoire, it is stated that men's behavioral practices are determined by the patriarchal system and this is supported and maintained by mothers. In the "car, football, repairs: masculine performance" repertoire, it is stated that certain masculine activities serve as the criteria for being a man. Finally, the meaning in the "woman versus masculinity" repertoire, being a man is defined over the oppositions established with women. Keywords Masculinity, critical discursive psychology, interpretative repertoires, new media

scholarly journals When finance met security: Back to the War on Drugs and the problem of dirty money

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Amicelle
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
The U.S

When and how did the laundering of ‘dirty’ money become an object of public concern, debate, and ultimately policy at the intersection of finance and security? This article sheds light on the social construction of money laundering as a public problem in the context of the U.S. War on Drugs during the 1970s and 1980s. By doing so, the article also stresses the heuristic value of questioning the finance-security nexus through an analytics of public problems. Its aims are to: (1) avoid interdisciplinary debates around the finance-security nexus becoming trapped in a zero-sum game between the ‘securitization of finance’ and the ‘financialization of security’; and (2) understand better the emergence, re-configuration, and internal tensions of social spaces at the interface of finance and security.

Studying the User: A Matter of Perspective

2001 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Supriya Singh
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Consumer Confidence ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication

Providers and policy-makers are interested in understanding consumers' use of new media and technologies. The challenge, however, is to work out ways in which qualitative research on the social construction and uses of the new communications technologies can connect with and reformulate issues central to industry and policy. In this paper, I present a way of exploring the perspectives of the user, and connecting them to the language and perspectives of providers and policy-makers. Users and their activities are placed at the centre of the questions. The questions and concepts then focus on the activity and nature of communication rather than the goods and services sold or the technologies being used. Information and communication technologies are studied within their social context. This research is most often qualitative because, for the most part, we are discovering new questions and exploring ambiguity. Once the user's perspectives have been discovered, it is easier to engage in dialogue with providers and policy-makers by focusing on concepts central to both sides, such as ‘design’ and ‘trust’. These concepts link issues important to the user to issues of production, diffusion and consumer confidence.

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