🔍 New publication | #AI #DiscourseAnalysis #Power
Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Authority
How do algorithms legitimize themselves through language?
This article explores “synthetic authority” and the impersonal grammar of power in AI systems, connecting it to older forms of institutional discourse.
👉 https://zenodo.org/records/15442929
📄 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15442929
#CriticalTheory #Linguistics #DigitalHumanities #GrammarOfPower
Lesson one for the people addressed in this study (this includes me and in the #fediverse chances are you too): Learn how to take such remarks not as something negative but as a guide on how to improve.
#equity #gender #race #DiscourseAnalysis #whiteness #masculinity
Call for papers: R2CASS2025 (https://r2cass2025.wordpress.com/)
Our NFDI4DS team member @arnim is co-organizer of the workshop “Social Science Meets Web Data: Reproducible and Reusable Computational Approaches” co-located with ICWSM 2025 (https://icwsm.org/) in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 23-26, 2025.
Submission via: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=r2ca
Deadline is: March 31st, 2025
#AI
#artificialintelligence
#discourseanalysis
#socialmedia
#reproducibility
#R2CASS2025
#NFDI4DS
#Copenhagen
We invite applications for two fully funded #PhD positions in a project on "multimodal argumentation" (https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/multimodal/home) - especially interesting for applicants with an interest in #DiscourseAnalysis, #linguistics, and/or the #philosophy of #argumentation and #language.
For more info, see https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B82P and https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B83P
#job #Groningen #PhilosophyOfLanguage #ArgumentationTheory #GradSchool #SocialEpistemology #PhDPosition
🗣️💬 Want to help out two undergrad students with their research project in discourse analysis? Please take a couple of minutes to answer and share this survey. (And please, be kind: this is their first, and English is not their native language)
TW: serial killers
#linguistics @linguistics #discourseanalysis
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2IeLGRh2vsxWh7fjJmxPOh3B53rgxVGmOYYatob1WywJKzw/viewform
Are you interested in the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to #Discourse (#SKAD)? Then join the new group on our Discourse Studies platform.
There will be an initial two-hour online meeting on Wednesday, 19 March at 6 p.m. (CET).
Our next Open #DiscourseNet Seminar Seminar is going to be tomorrow,
7th March 2025, 1–2 pm (London Time).
Gertrude Grumah (University of Essex) will present a sociolinguistic study of
Mampuli-English Codeswitching in Nalerigu, #Ghana.
For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN/seminars/OpenDNLondon #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #Sociolinguistics
Proud to be a guest editor for this new special issue of the Journal of Dialogue Studies on "The Possibilities and Limits of Dialogue in a World of Political Populisms" https://www.dialoguestudies.org/journal/the-possibilities-and-limits-of-dialogue-in-a-world-of-political-populisms/ #populism #communication #disinformation #propaganda #discourseanalysis #politics
#Introduction 👋 I work in #ComputationalLinguistics #NLP #SentimentAnalysis #Linguistics #CorpusLinguistics at the University of #Málaga (.es) @ the Tecnolengua lab.
My PhD thesis dealt with #SA and #CADS the language of the #GreatRecession in the press and changes in #semantics #discourseanalysis
💡 I'm into #technopolitics, #Autonomy, #PunkRock, #photography, #History, and the #RightToTheCity
Here's my Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EhEnu3wAAAAJ&hl=es
DiscourseNet Webinar: How to embark on a PhD in Discourse Studies?
Are you thinking of doing a PhD in a field related to Discourse Studies? If you want to turn your interest in discourse into a professional academic career but do not yet know what to expect, how to write a project proposal or who to contact, this webinar is a good place to start.
20th of December 2024, 4–5pm BST (UK time)
https://discourseanalysis.net/en/how-embark-phd-discourse-studies-webinar-tips-discoursenet-0?language=en #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #Discourse
I would ask all journalists who need to use the phrase "alpha male" to always put it in quotes. It doesn't have any real meaning beyond "this person behaves like an asshole" and treating it as a legitimate identity or philosophy is unhelpful. #Sociology #MassMedia #DiscourseAnalysis #Framing
Join us for or next DiscourseNet Congress:
#DNC6: Discourse and the imaginaries of past, present and future societies: media and representations of (inter)national (dis)orders
Brussels, 7–10 July 2015
For more information see:
https://discourseanalysis.net/DNC6 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #Discourse #MediaStudies
Highlight from our electronic #collection:
➡️ Framing #Refugees. How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World
🔗 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92543/1/9780198904724.pdf
In this book, the authors argue that governments' refugee #policies and #opposition parties' stances are largely shaped by how they frame both their country's collective #identity and the identity of refugees.
#asylum #NationalIdentity #DiscourseAnalysis #SocialSciences #OpenAccess
Pleased to say one of our most popular workshops is running again in Oct '24.
https://buff.ly/3xPQnxO
Join us for a day discussing the principles of #qualitative data analysis and experimenting with some of the practical tasks involved. This one usually fills up quickly so get in quick. Small groups and two tutors make this a focused, friendly and thought-provoking day. #QualitativeDataAnalysis #QDA #QualitativeResearch #ThematicAnalysis #ContentAnalysis #DiscourseAnalysis #GroundedTheory
See Behind All Spoken/Written Messages To Know What Is Really Communicated & Really Intended
#communication #influence #read #bodyLanguage #DiscourseAnalysis #Linguistics #learnToRead
The framing of food in Canadian university classrooms
A preliminary analysis of undergraduate human nutrition sciences, dietetics, and food studies syllabi
Andrea Bombak
Michelle Adams
Sierra Garofalo
Constance Russell
Emma Robinson
Barbara Parker
Natalie Riediger
Erin Cameron
#FoodPositivity #Education #PostSecondary #FoodStudies #NutritionEducation #Canada #DiscourseAnalysis
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/659
Check out the new paper in our Collaborative Working Paper Series. Ahmed Najm Abed and Lorena Bort-Mir outline a #FramingAnalysis of newspaper headlines on Iraqi #refugees.
For this and other papers visit:
https://discourseanalysis.net/dncwps
#DiscourseAnalysis #CDA #FramingAnalysis #NewsDiscourse #DNWPS
Mouffe and 'The Political' - with Pieter Maeseele and Seongcheol Kim
#Books #Discourse #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #Philosophy
Friday evening, taking the boat homeward.
If you're into #CorpusLinguistics or #DiscourseAnalysis , remember the deadline, Sunday 15 January, for this year's #CADS2024 conference in Innsbruck!
https://www.uibk.ac.at/congress/cads2024/index.html.en
Testing some code for identity construction in evangelical news sources. (The text data is a small corpus, so this is mainly about getting the code right. I'm trying out ways to highlight the key identity terms that play a role in boundary work.)
#Sociology #SocialPsychology #Python #DataAnalysis #DiscourseAnalysis #Seaborn
