Diskurse - digital: Theorien, Methoden, Fallstudien
Final Report Abstract
In the scientific network “Diskurse – digital”, 15 scientists from linguistics and media studies worked from 2016 to 2021 on researching discourses on digital platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia. The analysis of discourses is about showing how linguistic or visual patterns as well as specific communicative phenomena give rise to knowledge and imaginary worlds on a particular topic (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic). While media discourses in newspapers, on the radio or on television have already been studied for several years, discourses on digital platforms were hardly the subject of scientific analyses at the beginning of the network. The network therefore set itself the goal of bringing the outlined subject area into the focus of discourse-analytical work in order to expand methods and models from the research field of linguistic discourse analysis under the sign of digitalization. The focus of the network was on specific patterns and digital phenomena such as shitstorms, cyberbullying or certain hashtags, which can be starting points for digital discourses with high ranges. In addition, the focus was also on dealing with appropriate techniques of data collection, appropriate methods, as well as legal and ethical aspects of analysing digital discourses. These focal points of the network were worked on in six network meetings in the context of lectures, (panel) discussions as well as workshops. The work on the aforementioned goals in the network was based on case studies from members' projects and related to each other through the focus on common issues and focal points of the working meetings. In addition, the results could be discussed with a large (expert) public and documented in numerous scientific publications with quality assurance. The final publication covers qualitative and quantitative approaches to digital discourse and raises awareness of a subject-specific broad repertoire of methods that has not been published in this density before. The network's findings have already been the starting point for the initiation and successful acquisition of further research projects. In connection with the network, the further qualification of young scientists has also been achieved in numerous qualification theses.
Publications
- Digital discourse analysis and Wikipedia: Bridging the gap between Foucauldian discourse analysis and digital conversation analysis. Journal of Pragmatics 115. 99-114
Gredel, Eva
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.02.010) - Imagining Big Data: Illustrations of ‘Big Data’ in US News Articles, 2010-2016. New Media & Society 21(1). 139-167.
Pentzold, Christian, Cornelia Brantner & Lena Fölsche
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444818791326) - Das Dialogpotenzial von Shitstorms. In Ernest Hess-Lüttich (Hg.), Handbuch Gesprächsrhetorik, 409-427. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter.
Marx, Konstanze
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110333572-017) - Deutsch in Sozialen Medien (Jahrbuch des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim 2019). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
Marx, Konstanze, Henning Lobin & Axel Schmidt (Hg.)
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110679885) - Multimodalität. Grundlagen, Forschung, Analyse. Eine problemorientierte Einführung. Berlin: De Gruyter.
Wildfeuer, Janina, John A. Bateman & Tuomo Hiippala
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110495935) - Digitale Diskursanalyse: Annotation und formale Modellierung von Diskursen. Diskurse – digital 3. 23-51.
Mell, Ruth M. & Cerstin Mahlow
(See online at https://doi.org/10.25521/diskurse-digital.2021.167) - Framing Big Data: The Discursive Construction of a Radio Cell Query in Germany. In: Big Data & Society, 4(2).
Pentzold, Christian & Charlotte Fischer
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717745897) - Im Fadenkreuz. Metapragmatik und semiotic ideologies im Fußballfandiskurs. Kodikas/ CODE 2018 (3-4). 245-259.
Meier-Vieracker, Simon.
- Werbekampagnen als Stimmen in Diskursen. Deutsche Sprache. 99-117.
Polajnar, Janja & Janine Luth.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1868-775x.2021.02.03) - Diskurse – digital: Theorien, Methoden, Anwendungen. Herausgegeben zusammen mit dem DFG-Netzwerk „Diskurse – digital“ (Diskursmuster 30). Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter.
Gredel, Eva (Hg.)
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110721447)
