Doing Discourse Analysis
01 Jan 2005-pp 163-191
TL;DR: There are many forms of discourse analysis, including content analysis, semiology, and iconography as discussed by the authors, and the Foucauldian discourse analysis is a break from other critical methods applied to textual analysis.
Abstract: My hope in writing this chapter is to generate enthusiasm for geographical research employing discourse analysis. My intention is to provide some advice on doing discourse analysis to facilitale the design of research. I first outline why some geographers have been inspired by this approach. I suggest how Foucauldian discourse analysis is a break from other critical methods applied to textual analysis, including content analysis, semiology, and iconography. The theoretical underpinnings of the method provided by Michel Foucault, a French poststructuralist philosopher, is a key source of difference. I therefore condense Michel Foucault's contribution to discourse analysis by sketching out his key theoretical concepts and their methodological implications. To discuss the methodological implications 0f doing discourse analysis I draw upon the advice of feminist geographer Gillian Rose and linguist Norman Fairclough. I provide a list of questions to help implement a Foucauldian approach to discourse analysis and illustrate their implications lor 'doing' geography by drawing upon examples. This chapter should therefore be read only as an appetiser as there are many forms of discourse analysis. The suggested readings provide a much larger selection of the theoretical and methodological possibilities.
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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, the Foucauldian approach to discourse analysis has been used to analyse the relationship between discourse analysis and the discipline and punishment of physical education, as discussed by Michel Foucault, in his book "Constructing the 'Addict': A Discourse Analysis of Discourse analysis".
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a study of trust development in online courses and examine changes in faculty roles as professors go online, and suggest strategies for trust formation are also suggested, concluding that swift trust at the beginning of an online course appears to be related to subsequent course success.
Abstract: This paper presents a study of trust development in online courses. It reviews the concept of swift trust and examines changes in faculty roles as professors go online. An exploratory content analysis looks at indicators of the development of swift trust in the highest rated of a large number of online courses studied over a three year period, and contrasts these results with one of the poorest rated online courses. Establishing swift trust at the beginning of an online course appears to be related to subsequent course success. Strategies for trust formation are also suggested.
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03 Jan 2007
TL;DR: A qualitative study was conducted to explore how subjects use social networking sites and instant messenger to engage in interpersonal relationships and was used to develop a preliminary framework that models how attitudes towards privacy and impression management, when mediated by technology, translate into social interactions.
Abstract: A qualitative study was conducted to explore how subjects use social networking sites and instant messenger to engage in interpersonal relationships. The results were used to develop a preliminary framework that models how attitudes towards privacy and impression management, when mediated by technology, translate into social interactions. This paper begins with a review of relevant literature, then describes the experimental design, summarizes the results, introduces the framework, and finishes with a discussion of conclusions and implications for future research. This paper describes the collection and analysis of qualitative data, and its use to inform a preliminary theoretical framework that can support future research into the design of systems that support social interactions
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TL;DR: The Pluralism in Qualitative Research project (PQR) as discussed by the authors was developed to investigate the benefits and creative tensions of integrating diverse qualitative approaches and to interrogate the contributions and impact of researchers and methods on data analysis.
Abstract: Qualitative approaches to research in psychology and the social sciences are increasingly used. The variety of approaches incorporates different epistemologies, theoretical traditions and practices with associated analysis techniques spanning a range of theoretical and empirical frameworks. Despite the increase in mixed method approaches it is unusual for qualitative methods to be used in combination with each other. The Pluralism in Qualitative Research project (PQR) was developed in order to investigate the benefits and creative tensions of integrating diverse qualitative approaches. Among other objectives it seeks to interrogate the contributions and impact of researchers and methods on data analysis. The article presents our pluralistic analysis of a single semi-structured interview transcript. Analyses were carried out by different researchers using grounded theory, Foucauldian discourse analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis and narrative analysis. We discuss the variation and agreement in the analysis of the data. The implications of the findings on the conduct, writing and presentation of qualitative research are discussed.
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...Many discourse analysts have outlined series of ‘steps’ (e.g. Parker, 1992; Willig, 2008) and ‘worked examples’ (e.g. Gill, 2000; Wood and Kroger, 2000) to structure this analytic process....
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TL;DR: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is part of a significant shift in thinking about children, young people and childhood as mentioned in this paper, which has introduced participation as the third P, alongside provision and protection.
Abstract: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is part of a significant shift in thinking about children, young people and childhood. It has introduced participation as the third P, alongside provision and protection. Development actors and policies have identified participation as a facet of meaningful social development. Academics have constructed new ways of conceptualising children, recognising them as competent social actors and social participants. However, while discourses of participation have reached global scales it is important that we maintain a ‘critical eye’ on what participation is and whom it is for. Such a critical eye can be cast very effectively over UNICEF's very own discourses and practices.
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...…within which groups of statements are produced, circulated and communicated; and to uncover the support mechanisms that uphold certain structures and rules over statements about people, events, places as unchallengeable, ‘normal’ or ‘common-sense’ (paraphrased from Waitt, 2005, pp. 164–5)....
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...However, in view of the widereaching impact UNICEF and its discourse has in a global context, it is important to maintain a critical eye on the practice and engage with the possible hidden meanings, the ‘regimes of truth’, behind the rhetoric (Foucault, 1980; Skelton, 1999; Waitt, 2005)....
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