🎙️ECPS Interview
🗣️ Professor Wodak: Autocracy Has Become a Global Economic Corporation Backed by Oligarchs and Social Media Power
🖊️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli
💬 In this urgent and far-reaching conversation, Professor Ruth Wodak ( Lancaster University & ECPS Advisory Board) warns:
🛑 “We are facing a kind of global kleptocracy and oligarchy that owns social media—and is, in some cases, part of governments.”
🌍 From Trump’s “MAGA” slogan 🇺🇸 to Orbán’s migrant scapegoating 🇭🇺, Professor Wodak dissects how authoritarian populists:
📉 manipulate crisis narratives
💻 exploit digital platforms
⚠️ and normalize fascist rhetoric and political violence
📡 She explores:
🔧 The rise of techno-fascism and “Autocracy, Inc.” 🏢
💣 The strategic use of fear and algorithmic governance 🤖
🧨 The return of state-sanctioned violence in democracies 🚓
🗣️ And the duty of public intellectuals to resist “shameless normalization” 📣
🧠 “One shouldn’t give in to preemptive fear,” she urges.🗽 “There’s no reason to silence yourself out of imagined danger.” ✊
📖 Read the interview now: 🔗populismstudies.org/professo…
🎥Watch the interview: youtube.com/watch?v=LScWmBFi…#RuthWodak#Populism 🧠 #TechnoFascism 💻 #Authoritarianism ⚖️ #DiscourseStudies 📘 #PublicIntellectuals#Fascism
Keynote lecture by Annette Knaut: Creating future imaginaries in a world of discursive upheavals. A sociology of knowledge approach to discourse
#DNC6#SKAD#DiscourseStudies#brussels
IDK who in #rhetoric#discoursestudies still uses X, but here's the latest @reverb_cast ep (link in next tweet), in which Alex and I debut some new host personae before introducing Fairclough's assumptions analysis as a way of critiquing manipulative pro-Trump rhetoric.
ALT Top text: "re:verb"; Left-center image includes a picture of Critical Discourse scholar Norman Fairclough with a laser beam shooting out of his left eye towards right center image; Right-center image is offset, includes a screenshot of an article titled "Liberation Day Puts Main Street Ahead of Wall Street"; Bottom text: "Discourse & Manipulation pt. 4 - The Economic Assumptions of "Liberation Day""
Cuando Donald Trump habló en el debate con Kamala Harris de que los inmigrantes haitianos comen gatos y perros, casi todos los medios cayeron en el “framing” racista de #Trump. 👇🏼
#DiscourseStudies#ErvingGoffman@GeorgeLakoff
Love it when my students engage with trending societal topics (such as football fan discourses) in their term papers. Here a great example of sports and British national identity constructions. #discoursestudies#appliedlinguistics
#DiscourseStudies for research on #MediaLiteracy - @JanZienkowski and I have contributed a chapter to 'Media Literacy and Media Education Research Methods: A Handbook'. Many thanks to the wonderful book editors for having invited us on board! shorturl.at/coNW4 @engage_uslb
"The stories that we tell about who we are rely heavily on co-constructed stories about who we were" – brilliant talk by @_ctaylor_ on memory and language in relation to migration #discoursestudies#corpuslinguistics
🚨New #OpenAccess publication 🚨
@DoctorJRo & @DrBing_X identify 4 functions of political comments in online social media.
Looking at 2 contexts (USA & China), they show how quotations contribute to agreeing or disagreeing online.
#DiscourseStudies#MediatizedDiscourse
More ⬇️
Paper 1⃣ in this issue shows how the Two-Spirit minority community employs TikTok to perform their identity.
Analysis explores #textual & #multimodal stance-taking in social media & their role in constructing identities.
🔗bit.ly/3DYq202#DiscourseStudies#Mediatized
🚨new issue of #DCM_Journal published🚨
1⃣ stance & minority identites on #TikTok by @Frances43767234
2⃣ Ambient affiliation in digital health communication by Shanghao Wang & @zhengpengluo
3⃣ translinguistic practices in the Global South by Alex Georgakopoulou #OpenAccess
On my way to #dnc5aled to discuss #discoursestudies and catch up with friends and colleagues. Also fleeing the 🌧️ and the rain - the heat might be a bit of a shock 🥵
Interested in online hotel reviews? Irene Cenni has presented about this at #IPrA2023. The topic is closely related to her study on hotel's responses to negative reviews on TripAdvisor, which can be read in this link!
🔗bit.ly/44oezT8#DiscourseStudies#DMC_Journal
Irene Cenni presenting interesting data of hotels denying customers’ accusation on TripAdvisor, at panel on The feedback society: Discourses, identities, modalities organised by Sylvia Jaworska and Camilla Vasquez. #IPrA2023
Levinson, #ipra2023 plenary, my take-home messages
• we have relied too much on dated theory,
• we have relied on Global North theory,
• and now, let’s focus on #cultural & #cross-cultural #pragmatics.