Communication and Discourse Theory

Introduction: Discourse Theory, Media and Communication, and the Work of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group

Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen, and Leen Van Brussel



Section 1: Political Ideologies



Chapter 1: Crisis, Austerity, and Opposition in Mainstream Media Discourses in Greece

Yiannis Mylonas

Chapter 2: (Re)Articulating Feminism: A Discourse Analysis of Sweden's Feminist Initiative Election Campaign

Kirill Filimonov and Jakob Svensson

Chapter 3: The Stage as an Arena of Politics: The Struggle between the Vlaams Blok/Belang and the Flemish City Theatres

Benjamin De Cleen

Section 2: The Politics of Everyday Life



Chapter 4: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to Death and Dying

Leen Van Brussel

Chapter 5: Putting Your Relationship to the Test: Constructions of Fidelity, Seduction, and Participation in Temptation Island

Nico Carpentier

Section 3: Production



Chapter 6: The Postmodern Challenge to Journalism: Strategies for Constructing a Trustworthy Identity

Jo Bogaerts and Nico Carpentier

Chapter 7: The Particularity of Objectivity: A Poststructuralist and Psychoanalytical Reading of the Gap between Objectivity-as-a-Value and Objectivity-as-a-Practice in the 2003 Iraqi War Coverage

Nico Carpentier and Marit Trioen



Section 4: Audiences and Participation



Chapter 8: The Articulation of "Audience" in Chinese Communication Research

Guiquan Xu

Chapter 9: Articulating the Visitor in Public Knowledge Institutions

Krista Lepik and Nico Carpentier

Chapter 10: To be a Common Hero: The Uneasy Balance between the Ordinary and Ordinariness in the Subject Position of Mediated Ordinary People in the Talk Show Jan Publiek

Nico Carpentier and Wim Hannot



Section 5: Activism and Resistance



Chapter 11: Online Barter and Counter-Hegemonic Resistance

Giulia Airaghi

Chapter 12: Activist Fantasies on ICT-Related Social Change in Istanbul

It?r Akdogan

Chapter 13: Contesting the Populist Claim on "The People" through Popular Culture: The 0110 Concerts versus the Vlaams Belang

Benjamin De Cleen and Nico Carpentier



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