Representation of Internet privacy issues in news reports: Critical Discourse Analysis

DOI

10.2991/ismge-19.2019.8How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Сritical discourse analysis; privacy issues; social actors; recontextualization; exclusion; backgrounding

Abstract

This paper aims at exploring morphological, syntactic and semantic features through which social actors, implicated in Internet privacy issues discourse, in news reports are represented. Van Leeuwen’s theoretical-methodological tools have been used in the study to reveal the basic tendencies that conceptualize social interaction between participants involved in the process of privacy violation. Groups of dominant social actors and their roles in digital surveillance practices have been specified by means of the three sets of categories of inclusion/ exclusion, activation/ passivation, personalization/ impersonalization. The obtained results can be used for enhancing readers’ critical thinking abilities in order to understand and create discourse in the media.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Darya A. Aripova
AU  - Irina S. Bashmakova
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - Representation of Internet privacy issues in news reports: Critical Discourse Analysis
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Practical Conference "The Individual and Society in the Modern Geopolitical Environment" (ISMGE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 40
EP  - 45
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/ismge-19.2019.8
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