Discourses of Ideology and Identity - Social Media and the Iranian Election Protests

In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement ideologies and identities are discursively constructed in new and old media, focused around a case study of the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests. Through qualitative analysis of a corpus of activists' Twitter tweets and Flickr uploads, Featherman argues that activists' social media discourses and protesters' symbolic and tactical borrowing of global English contribute to micronarratives of globalization, while also calling into question master narratives about Iran commonly found in mainstream Western media accounts.

List of contents

1. Opening: Protesting the Results 2. 'Down with Potatoes!': Theory, Methods, Contexts 3. Constructing the Protestor's Identities in the U.S. Media 4. Borrowed Language: Symbolic Resources and Discursive Stance 5. Collective Action and Identifying across Networks 6. Effervescence or Resonance?: Closings

About the author

Chris Featherman is an applied linguist and Lecturer in English at Northeastern University, USA

Product details

• Authors: Chris Featherman, Featherman Chris
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2015
• EAN: 9781138825581
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82558-1
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Iran, History, Media Studies, Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Sociolinguistics, Humanities, Regional Studies, Language: history & general works, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Regional / International studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Demonstrations & protest movements, Language: history and general works