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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Digital discourse"”.
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Exploring digital discourse with Chinese characteristics: contradictions and tensions
… research aims to register and interpret China’s discourse on network technologies, reveal the underlying ideologies, and tie this discourse to the transformation of China’s capitalism of which it is a part. Digital discourse, as this thesis defines it, is about the contemporary discourse on …
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The Emotional Experience of Parent-Adolescent Conflict When Discussing Digital Topics: An Exploratory Emergent Variable Analysis
With the rise of digital technologies in everyday life, parent-adolescent conflict has expanded to include discussions about digital topics. This study investigated the emotional experiences of adolescents and their mothers during conflict discussions about digital issues (e.g., screentime, social …
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Nhetoric: Rhetorical power in cyberspace
… Alpha uses in cyberspace. Analysis of Alpha's digital discourse provide an opportunity to understand and evaluate the unique potentials that information technologies such as the World Wide Web bring to the rhetorical environment.
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Genre And Persona In Activist Websites
Digital texts present significant challenges to technical communicators in terms of genre and persona. Because of the ubiquity of electronic media, we increasingly embrace digital formats over print-based documents. As a result, technical communicators must now devise the means to cue audiences to …
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The Motherhood Contract: Mental Load, Moral Risk, and Gendered Care In Contemporary Parenting and Digital Culture
… by cultural norms, structural barriers, and digital discourse. Despite increased awareness of shared parenting ideals, mothers predominantly bear the “mental load.” This study introduces the idea of a motherhood contract: implicit expectations that mothers are responsible for managing …
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Rethinking the rhetoric of remix: copies and material culture in digital networks
… dissertation focuses on the shift from analog to digital media and concentrates on the role played by copies and replication in both systems of representation to identify and analyze material practices and rhetorical claims about their cultural influence. Specifically, it identifies and critiques …
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An Ontological Explication of Electronic Benefit Transfer as an Institutional Mechanism of Reification and Relations of Ruling
… a five step Hyperveillance Circuit in terms of a digital dialectic. It begins with the swipe of the EBT card that generates the data (i.e., hypertext) and follows it through collection, analysis, ideological assemblage, and finally, its use to construct events in the institutional lens to reify …
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A critical discourse analysis of social change in women-related posts on Saudi English-language blogs posted between 2009 and 2012
This thesis examines the discourse on social change in women-related posts on Saudi English-Language blogs written between 2009 and 2012. These posts discuss a number of reformative measures that took place during that period in order to allow for greater women’s empowerment in Saudi Arabia. The …
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Local language policy: shifting scales in the English-only movement
… analyzed public government records, videos, and digital discourse; and visited the archives of John Tanton (who founded the organizations ProEnglish and U.S. English), former US Senator Paul Simon, and the National Council of Teachers of English. I argue that local policies in schools, …
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Frames of Digital Blackness in the Racialized Palimpsest City: Chicago, Illinois and Johannesburg, South Africa
… differentiated outcomes, that contemporary urban discourse and contestation between individuals and institutions are situated. This historical othering provides not just a racialized geo-historical contextualization, but also works to preclude the recognition of the some of the most vulnerable …
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A construção do texto literário em ambiente digital: a evolução e disseminação crescentes
… como uma forma emergente de expressão literária digital no contexto português. Partindo de um corpus de tweets de autores portugueses contemporâneos, o estudo investiga como a limitação de caracteres, a fragmentação textual, a heterogeneidade enunciativa e a hipertextualidade contribuem para a …
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Gêneros discursivos digitais: os impactos do ambiente digital no ensino de língua portuguesa
… propõe-se a analisar de que modo o ambiente digital e os gêneros discursivos digitais podem impactar o ensino de Língua Portuguesa, bem como a apresentar propostas de atividades pedagógicas significativas destinadas a alunos do 9.º ano de escolaridade. Busca-se articular os componentes …
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Unpacking American Reception of Glocalized Non-English Content in the Netflix Era
<p>The swift growth of streaming services has revolutionized the worldwide distribution of media, making it possible for non-English and non-English-adjacent content to reach American consumers on a never-before-seen scale, which is sometimes perceived as an indication of increasing cultural …