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.

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Chris (Northeastern University Featherman, Chris Featherman, Featherman Chris
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 06.02.2018
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781138548763
• ISBN: 978-1-138-54876-3
• Pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
• Subjects: 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