Osvrt na osvrt: o jezičnoj politici i objektivnosti Ranko Matasović (2019), recenzija knjige: Anðel Starčević, Mate Kapović & Daliborka Sarić 2019, Jeziku je svejedno, Sandorf, Zagreb Suvremena ...lingvistika 45/88: 279-284.
Incivility in public discourse has become a pressing concern of citizens and scholars alike, but most research has focused narrowly on incivility in elite discourse. The present study examines how ...the lay public perceives incivility, using two surveys to track differences in perceptions of specific types of uncivil speech and identify predictors of those perceptions. The results show that different types of incivility elicit different responses. In particular, name-calling and vulgarity were rated as more uncivil than were other speech acts. In addition, several demographic, personality, and news consumption variables were analyzed as predictors of incivility perceptions.
El cuatro de junio de 2021 comenzó el trabajo de la Convención Constituyente (CC) chilena (2021-2022) con la participación de siete representantes del pueblo mapuche. Por primera vez, el pueblo ...originario más numeroso del territorio chileno participaba en un órgano colegiado con una representación significativa. De esta forma, el pueblo mapuche emerge como nuevo actor político en un escenario también único y original (Ojeda-Pereira, 2022; Padilla, Rodríguez & Espinosa, 2022). Estas circunstancias nos brindan la oportunidad de estudiar la construcción discursiva de la imagen pública de este pueblo originario en la voz de sus propios representantes. El eje de esta indagación es la noción de ethos colectivo, entendida como la imagen identitaria construida por el enunciador en su discurso (Orkibi, 2008; Amossy, 2018), la que se analiza en los discursos de apertura, emitidos por cada uno de los convencionales. En tal sentido nos preguntamos: ¿Cómo se construye el ethos colectivo del pueblo mapuche en los discursos de apertura de sus representantes? La investigación se realizó desde la perspectiva semiodiscursiva del análisis del discurso (Charaudeau, 2003, 2006, 2021) sobre los siete discursos emitidos por los convencionales constituyentes mapuches en el marco del trabajo de la CC. En los discursos de apertura se ha construido un ethos colectivo homogéneo y, en algún sentido, una imagen idealizada del pueblo mapuche, que se ha puesto al servicio de la legitimación de las demandas históricas frente al trabajo constitucional. Al mismo tiempo, observamos que esta imagen se distancia, por una parte, del pueblo mapuche que se reconoce mestizo y, por otra, de la población chilena que ve en el pueblo mapuche su propio origen.
With more than 3 billion users, online social networks represent an important venue for moral and political discourse and have been used to organize political revolutions, influence elections, and ...raise awareness of social issues. These examples rely on a common process to be effective: the ability to engage users and spread moralized content through online networks. Here, we review evidence that expressions of moral emotion play an important role in the spread of moralized content (a phenomenon we call moral contagion). Next, we propose a psychological model called the motivation, attention, and design (MAD) model to explain moral contagion. The MAD model posits that people have group-identity-based motivations to share moral-emotional content, that such content is especially likely to capture our attention, and that the design of social-media platforms amplifies our natural motivational and cognitive tendencies to spread such content. We review each component of the model (as well as interactions between components) and raise several novel, testable hypotheses that can spark progress on the scientific investigation of civic engagement and activism, political polarization, propaganda and disinformation, and other moralized behaviors in the digital age.
Conspiracy theories are abundant in social and political discourse, with serious consequences for individuals, groups, and societies. However, psychological scientists have started paying close ...attention to them only in the past 20 years. We review the spectacular progress that has since been made and some of the limitations of research so far, and we consider the prospects for further progress. To this end, we take a step back to analyze the defining features that make conspiracy theories different in kind from other beliefs and different in degree from each other. We consider how these features determine the adoption, consequences, and transmission of belief in conspiracy theories, even though their role as causal or moderating variables has seldom been examined. We therefore advocate for a research agenda in the study of conspiracy theories that starts-as is routine in fields such as virology and toxicology-with a robust descriptive analysis of the ontology of the entity at its center.
In recent years, an upsurge of polarization has been a salient feature of political discourse in America. A small but growing body of research has examined the potential relevance of intellectual ...humility (IH) to political polarization. In the present investigation, we extend this work to political myside bias, testing the hypothesis that IH is associated with less bias in two community samples (N1 = 498; N2 = 477). In line with our expectations, measures of IH were negatively correlated with political myside bias across paradigms, political topics, and samples. These relations were robust to controlling for humility. We also examined ideological asymmetries in the relations between IH and political myside bias, finding that IH–bias relations were statistically equivalent in members of the political left and right. Notwithstanding important limitations and caveats, these data establish IH as one of a small handful psychological features known to predict less political myside bias.
Resource nationalism Koch, Natalie; Perreault, Tom
Progress in human geography,
08/2019, Volume:
43, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Although ‘resources’ and ‘nationalism’ are core analytical categories in geography, the concept of ‘resource nationalism’ has received little attention in the discipline. We address this lacuna by ...reviewing relevant literature across the social sciences, and tracing key concepts and scalar frames to advance a critical approach to resource nationalism. In contrast to realist approaches, we understand it as a political discourse mobilized by a wide range of actors. Highlighting its multiple, co-existing, and often contradictory narratives about places, subjects, identities, and materialities, we illustrate the relevance of this critical framework with brief examples from Kazakhstan, Bolivia, and the USA.
Social media now plays a pivotal role in electoral campaigns. Rapid dissemination of information through platforms such as Twitter has enabled politicians to broadcast their message to a wide ...audience. In this paper, we investigated the sentiment of tweets by the two main presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, along with almost 2.9 million tweets by Twitter users during the 2016 US Presidential Elections. We analyzed these short texts to evaluate how accurately Twitter represented the public opinion and real world events of significance related with the elections. We also analyzed the behavior of over a million distinct Twitter users to identify whether the platform was used to share original opinions and to interact with other users or whether few opinions were repeated over and over again with little inter-user dialogue. Finally, we wanted to assess the sentiment of tweets by both candidates and their impact on the election related discourse on Twitter. Some of our findings included the discovery that little original content was created by users and Twitter was primarily used for rebroadcasting already present opinions in the form of retweets with little communication between users. Also of significance was the finding that sentiment and topics expressed on Twitter can be a good proxy of public opinion and important election related events. Moreover, we found that Donald Trump offered a more optimistic and positive campaign message than Hillary Clinton and enjoyed better sentiment when mentioned in messages by Twitter users.
•Analyzed user and political candidate tweets for sentiment during US elections.•Discovered Twitter can be used to gauge public opinion and important election events.•User behavior on the platform was to retweet and rebroadcast already present opinion.•Significant difference observed in sentiment of messages by the two major candidates.
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