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...

The years-long negotiations on an international mechanism for loss and damage (L&D) associated with climate change impacts got to a milestone during the nineteenth session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP-19), held in Warsaw in November 2013. The COP established the Warsaw...

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...

Internet voting in the USA has a tragic history. It began in the year 2000. It worked so well that Congress approved a major project for the Department of Defense to provide website based Internet voting for overseas military. But the project was abruptly aborted, and the reputation of Internet...

Inspiriert vor allem von diskurstheoretischen Überlegungen und den Ergebnissen einer explorativen in-depth Fallstudie, welche neben einer grundlegenden Darstellung der fast gänzlich vom Verbrennungsmotor bestimmten Geschichte des US-Automobilfeldes insbesondere dessen völlig unerwartete...