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Narrative Agency in Hashtag Activism: The Case of #BlackLivesMatter Open
Hashtag activism happens when large numbers of postings appear on social media under a common hashtagged word, phrase or sentence with a social or political claim. The temporal unfolding of these mutually connected postings in networked sp…
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Talking AI into Being: The Narratives and Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics Open
How to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the functioning and structures of our society has become a concern of contemporary politics and public debates. In this paper, we investigate national AI strategies as a peculia…
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Wicked problems: a mapping review of the literature Open
The term 'wicked problems' is today widely used in the sustainability literature, but there is no consensus on its theoretical underpinnings or its utility for research. This paper reports on a mapping review of the wicked problems literat…
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Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice Open
Contents: Preface Introduction The contexts of ekphrasis Learning ekphrasis: the progymnasmata The subjects of ekphrasis Enargeia making absent things present Phantasia memory, imagination and the gallery of the mind Ekphrasis and the art …
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Communication and attention dynamics: An attention‐based view of strategic change Open
Research Summary : The attention‐based view (ABV) has highlighted the role of organizational attention in strategic decision making and adaptation. The tendency to view communication channels as “pipes and prisms” for information processin…
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Rhetorical structure theory Open
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Climate Change Disinformation and How to Combat It Open
Climate change presents a challenge at multiple levels: It challenges our cognitive abilities because the effect of the accumulation of emissions is difficult to understand. Climate change also challenges many people's worldview because an…
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Constructing and mobilizing ‘the consumer’: Responsibility, consumption and the politics of sustainability Open
This paper advances critical perspectives on the governance of sustainable consumption by exploring the ways in which ‘the consumer’ is constructed and mobilized by strategic actors and organizations. Existing approaches draw on theories o…
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Imagining the thinking machine: Technological myths and the rise of artificial intelligence Open
This article discusses the role of technological myths in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies from 1950s to the early 1970s. It shows how the rise of AI was accompanied by the construction of a powerful cultural my…
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Teaching Writing Skills Open
This paper is based on my M.Phil research Project “A Discoursal Approach To Teaching Writing.” Seven essays were analyzed using the discourse analysis approach to identify the discourse pattern, functions and relations.
The essays were co…
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Discursive constructions of otherness in populist radical right political blogs Open
This article provides a comparative study of the discursive construction and use of Otherness among anti‐immigration populist radical right politicians in Sweden and Finland. Based on rhetorical and critical discursive psychology, our anal…
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CODRA: A Novel Discriminative Framework for Rhetorical Analysis Open
Clauses and sentences rarely stand on their own in an actual discourse; rather, the relationship between them carries important information that allows the discourse to express a meaning as a whole beyond the sum of its individual parts. R…
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Homer’s Vividness: An Enactive Approach Open
The vividness of Homeric poetry has been admired since antiquity, but has been difficult to pin down with precision. It is usually thought to come about because readers are prompted to visualize the storyworld in the form of mental images …
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The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft: Homeric Performance in a Diachronic Perspective Open
The Epic Rhapsode and His Craft studies Homeric performance from archaic to Roman imperial times. It argues that oracular utterance, dramatic acting, and rhetorical delivery powerfully elucidate the practice of epic rhapsodes. Attention to…
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Better Document-level Sentiment Analysis from RST Discourse Parsing Open
Discourse structure is the hidden link between surface features and document-level properties, such as sentiment polarity.We show that the discourse analyses produced by Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) parsers can improve document-level …
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The Populist Communication Style: Toward a Critical Framework Open
This article seeks to understand the advance and allure of populism and the populist communication style in the era of mediatization. It proposes a critical framework based on three categories—identity construction, rhetorical style, and r…
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The combine will tell the truth: On precision agriculture and algorithmic rationality Open
Recent technological and methodological changes in farming have led to an emerging set of claims about the role of digital technology in food production. Known as precision agriculture, the integration of digital management and surveillanc…
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Propagating and Debunking Conspiracy Theories on Twitter During the 2015–2016 Zika Virus Outbreak Open
The present study investigates the characteristics of discussion of conspiracy theories about the Zika virus outbreak of 2015-16 on Twitter. Content and social network analysis of a dataset of 25,162 original Tweets about Zika virus conspi…
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Margin of Appreciation and Incrementalism in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights Open
Fundamental rights standards in Europe diverge as a result of differences in legal traditions, constitutional values and historical developments. The European Court of Human Rights therefore faces the challenge of having to balance the nee…
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Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives Open
This article explores Russia's attack on Ukraine using the lens of strategic culture. Specifically, two strands in Russian strategic culture are identified. The first is a deep-seated sense of vulnerability, especially vis-à-vis "the West.…
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Rhetorical questions: Severing asking from questioning Open
Rhetorical questions (RhQs) are puzzling for theoretical accounts of questions: while they have an interrogative form, they seem to provide the same information as a parallel assertion. We propose that solving this puzzle requires a deeper…
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Right-wing populism and the dynamics of style: a discourse-analytic perspective on mediated political performances Open
This article offers new ways of conceptualising style in right wing populist communicative performances, by foregrounding a structured and conceptually informed use of “style” that moves beyond the descriptive sense routinely employed in p…
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Is Twitter a Good Place for Asking Questions? A Characterization Study Open
People often turn to their social networks to fulfill their information needs. We conducted a study of question asking and answering (Q&A) behavior on Twitter. We found that the most popular question types were rhetorical and factual. Surp…
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Information We Collect: Surveillance and Privacy in the Implementation of Google Apps for Education Open
The aim of this study is to show how Google’s business model is concealed within Google Apps for Education (GAFE) as well as how such a bundle is perceived within one educational organisation, consisting of approximately 30 schools. The st…
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Towards News Verification: Deception Detection Methods for News Discourse Open
News verification is a process of determining whether a particular news report is truthful or deceptive. Deliberately deceptive (fabricated) news creates false conclusions in the readers’ minds. Truthful (authentic) news matches the writer…
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The power of Trump-speak: populist crisis narratives and ontological security Open
For most observers, the election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States (US) came as a shock. This has been widely recast as the culmination of the American public’s long-standing dissatisfaction with the political elit…
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AcaWriter: A Learning Analytics Tool for Formative Feedback on Academic Writing Open
Written communication is an important skill across academia, the workplace, and civic participation. Effective writing incorporates instantiations of particular text structures - rhetorical moves - that communicate intent to the reader. Th…
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Against the Heresy of Immanence: Vatican’s ‘Gender’ as a New Rhetorical Device Against the Denaturalization of the Sexual Order Open
Since the mid-1990s, the Vatican contests the concept of gender as forged by feminists to study social arrangements through which the sexual order is naturalised. This contestation came with the distortion of the analyses and claims formul…
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Transcendence through Rhetorical Practices: Responding to Paradox in the Science Sector Open
Organizations are often required to meet contradictory but interrelated objectives. An important response to such paradoxes is transcendence: the ability to view both poles of the paradox as necessary and complementary. Despite the central…
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Nouns and Academic Interactions: A Neglected Feature of Metadiscourse Open
Metadiscourse has received considerable attention in recent years as a way of understanding the rhetorical negotiations involved in academic writing. But while a useful tool in revealing something of the dynamic interactions which underlie…