Communication and Discourse Theory

Leen Van Brussel is a staff member of the Flemish Institute of Healthy Living (Vlaams Instituut Gezond Leven), where she works on health promotion ethics and health communication. Nico Carpentier is associate professor in media and communication studies at the Department of Media Studies of Charles University in Prague. Benjamin De Cleen is assistant professor at the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-Free University of Brussels) where he is the coordinator of the English-language master’s on journalism and media in Europe.

'This work significantly contributes to research intersections on discourse and communication. [...] This book’s main contribution is to demonstrate that DT is employed in communication studies not from lack of attention but for its practicability, which represents a strong, systematic interpretation of communication practices. The authors fill methodological gaps with their analyses by explaining how the interpretative mechanisms underlying DT are operationalized. [...] The work further contributes by translating DT into a DTA methodology.'

• Introduction: Discourse Theory, Media and Communication, and the Work of the Brussels Discourse Theory GroupNico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen, and Leen Van BrusselSection 1: Political IdeologiesChapter 1: Crisis, Austerity, and Opposition in Mainstream Media Discourses in GreeceYiannis MylonasChapter 2: (Re)Articulating Feminism: A Discourse Analysis of Sweden’s Feminist Initiative Election CampaignKirill Filimonov and Jakob SvenssonChapter 3: The Stage as an Arena of Politics: The Struggle between the Vlaams Blok/Belang and the Flemish City TheatresBenjamin De CleenSection 2: The Politics of Everyday Life Chapter 4: A Discourse-Theoretical Approach to Death and Dying Leen Van BrusselChapter 5: Putting Your Relationship to the Test: Constructions of Fidelity, Seduction, and Participation in Temptation IslandNico CarpentierSection 3: Production Chapter 6: The Postmodern Challenge to Journalism: Strategies for Constructing a Trustworthy IdentityJo Bogaerts and Nico CarpentierChapter 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 CoverageNico Carpentier and Marit TrioenSection 4: Audiences and ParticipationChapter 8: The Articulation of “Audience” in Chinese Communication Research Guiquan XuChapter 9: Articulating the Visitor in Public Knowledge Institutions Krista Lepik and Nico CarpentierChapter 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 PubliekNico Carpentier and Wim HannotSection 5: Activism and Resistance Chapter 11: Online Barter and Counter-Hegemonic Resistance Giulia AiraghiChapter 12: Activist Fantasies on ICT-Related Social Change in Istanbul Itır AkdoganChapter 13: Contesting the Populist Claim on “The People” through Popular Culture: The 0110 Concerts versus the Vlaams BelangBenjamin De Cleen and Nico CarpentierBiographies Previous Publications