The formally non-binding status of the outcomes of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is one of the distinctive markers of this unique exercise in contemporary diplomacy. As a rimarily discursive exercise aimed at creating common ground for discussion of internet-related policy issues, the main...

Using a selection of blogs from Iran and Indonesia, this chapter will discuss how blogs function as a means for organizing and assimilating experience as well as voicing opinions. The assessment will show how blogs provide Muslim writers a key means for discourses both with the political and...

This paper analyzes the extent to which two institutional logics around climate change - the climate change "convinced" and climate change "skeptical" logics - are truly competing or talking past each other in a way that can be described as a logic schism. Drawing on the concept of framing from...

This essay focuses on the construction of the concept 'Mother' in poverty discourses. It addresses the role of patriarchical ideology in the process whereby a characteristic typical of a group of welfare recipients has been selected and identified as constituting the cause as well as the effect...

Mining is seen as a menace to modern society despite bringing in significant incomes particularly in Australia. But is the media giving the mining industry a fair go? A study of more than 100 media stories about mining suggests that without further support and understanding of how to make...

The inquired subject of the book is discourse as a feature of communication. The discourse has an important role in the history in communication studies. The earliest beginnings of discourse and its theory are in Greece in the West and in Chinese literature of the East. Every culture and time...

The study of policy discourse comprises actor-centered and content-oriented approaches. We attempt to close the gap between the two kinds of approaches by introducing a new methodology for the analysis of political discourse called Discourse Network Analysis. It is based on social network...