Discourse, Context and Media Journal
dcmjournal.bsky.social
Discourse, Context and Media Journal
@dcmjournal.bsky.social
Peer-reviewed journal addressing the relationship between contemporary discourse, mediated forms of communication & context.

#Linguistics #Discourse #MediatedDiscourse
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/discourse-context-and-media
📘@krystyna-warchal.bsky.social explores modifications of knowledge claims when adapted for different audiences.
🟦Case study is about the announcement of a new Alzheimer's drug.
🟦The analysis identifies 5 types of knowledge claims & 3 types of transformations, mainly related to salience.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📘Chin Ee Loh, Fei Victor Lim & Ren Feng Lorraine Ow focus on knowledge recontextualization in Singapore.
🟦They explore the role of knowledge mediation in education research by analysing one project website.
🟦They highlight the role of communicative competence for succeeding.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📘O. Dontcheva-Navratilova’s research shows how video abstracts transform specialised knowledge.
🟦Data includes 20 videos on biology.
🟦Methods involves looking at 2 clusters of rhetorical strategies: Engagement & Framing.
🟦Findings identify 3 types of video abstracts.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📘S. Carter-Thomas & E. Rowley-Jolivet explore the transmedial repurposing of knowledge.
🟦Data comes from Nature & includes 4 sets of genres, including the original scientific article.
🟦Through close textual analysis, a mix of scientific & popular features is found.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📘In their introduction, @rosalores.bsky.social & @pmurduenas.bsky.social explain the 2 main questions in the #SI
❔1. How expert scientific knowledge is recontextualized through new media.
❔2. Which discourse strategies are employed to navigate the challenges of this new media.
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📢New article!!!
🟦Tsung-Lun Alan Wan studies remediation of raciolinguistic parody: from online to TV.
🟦The analysis draws on co-textual indexical incongruities to explain humour.
🟦Remediation works because it draws on metaparody.
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November 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
📢New article!!!
🟦S. Murillo analyses H2020 research Twitter accounts.
🟦The study focuses on the mediating function of #emojis in recontextualizing dissemination practices.
🟦Perceptual, interpretative & engagement functions of emojis are identified.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
📢New article!!!
🟦C. Pérez-Arredondo, D. Avello & L. Cárcamo-Ulloa study translaguaging practices by 2 Chilean influencers.
🟦They draw on the 3 levels of the Discourse-Historial Approach in #CDA.
🟦Multimodal creativity is linked to affordances.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM
🚨New article published!
🟦Yani Zhao & colleagues analyse how Chinese fitness influencer negotiate femininity.
🟦Data includes 218 posts from 116 & analysis draws on multimodal #CDA.
🟦Femininity is neoliberal, hybridized & culturally anchored.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
💙Ilana Gershon writes a final commentary to the #SI.
🟦The #mediating role of digital apps in romantic communication is highlighted.
🟦The role of sites in how identities are constructed is also discussed.
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
💙Benedict J.L. Rowlett & Kwan Ting Chung examine a forum on Butterfly, an app developed for the lesbian community in 🇭🇰.
🟦241 posts were screenshot & analysed following a quantitative & qualitative approach.
🟦Patterns in the construction of users' linguistic identity are found.
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
💙E. Muth Andersen explores how invitations are generated by Danish users of Tinder.
🟦Data includes 19 Tinder chats. Each message is a unit of analysis.
🟦3 strategies for invitations are found. These are collaboratively constructed by exploiting contextual factors.
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
💙@kurtsengul.bsky.social analyses "The Right Stuff", a dating app for conservatives.
🟦Relationships are analysed in a context of affective polarization.
🟦Analysis draws on qualitative #CDA
🟦Exclusion is embedded in the discursive positioning of the app & its digital architecture.
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
💙J. Banks, M. Monier & A. Samuel examine Black women’s experiences with online dating apps.
🟦They draw on Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis to analyse how women recall their experience.
🟦Discussions on the gatekeeping role of dating apps are included.
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
💙 @rikithompson.bsky.social draws on Multimodal CDA & ethnography to analyse Bumble's positioning as dating app.
🟦Data consists of semi-structured interviews & screen-based data of Bumble.
🟦 The app creates 3 forms of labor for women: communicative, relational, postdigital.
October 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🥁New issue published!!!
And it includes many studies on #MediatedDiscourse 🤓⏬:
1️⃣M. Wilczek-Watson & K. Brickley on stancetaking when discussing veganism.
2️⃣O. Segersven & I. Arminen on interactions with AI.
3️⃣ L. Holmgreen et al. on identity performed by leaders.
October 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🥁New article in the #SI on #Dementia
🔷C. Wide studies expressions of #support by institutions & peer groups.
🔷2 data sets: organizations' websites & Facebook threads.
🔷With a netographic approach, the potential of online space is stressed.
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October 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🚨New article published!
🟦O. Segersven & I. Arminen explore how LLMs imitate specialized discourse.
🟦Data comes from an experiment of conversations between #AI & rock climbers.
🟦LLM show epistemic & linguistic fluency but lack experiential competence.

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September 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
🚨New article published!
🟦C. Gardam et al. analyse how conspiracy theories are spread on denial communities.
🟦They draw on a corpus of Instagram posts & propose a visual-first #methodology
🟦They prove the intertextual intermodal nature of posts.

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September 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
W. Xu & X. Shi study hyperlinks as #engagement markers in corporate discourse.
🟦Data consists of 153 Chinese websites.
🔷An analytical framework for multimodal interactional metadiscourse is proposed.
🔵Digital media #mediates business discourse.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
M.J. Luzón & S. Albero-Posac study how hyperlinks enhance #comprehensibility in dissemination articles.
🟦Data is taken from The Conversation
🔷Categories of verbal in-text elaboration are proposed.
🔵#Affordances are recontextualizing tools.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
@katebarber.bsky.social has studied legitimization through hyperlinks in blog posts.
🟦Data is taken from 5 blogs dealing with s€xuAl violence.
🔷Links are classified as different types of anchor text.
🔵Technological affordances are evidential resources
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September 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Xi Chen analyses positioning practices when sharing personal experiences.
🟦Data, collected from Zhihu, was preprocessed by the API of a Chinese #LLM.
🔷Quantitative analysis calculates types of interaction (+ or -)
🔷Qualitative analysis shows affordances influence positioning.
September 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Yaqian Jiang & Camilla Vásquez explore self-branding practices by teachers.
🟦Focus is on the ethnic & hybrid identity of a self-identified Tibetan English language teacher in Douyin.
🔷Analysis is guided by #SocialSemiotics.
🔷Vlogs emerge as mediated & motivating resources.
September 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Yue Zhao, Yansheng Mao & Kaihang Zhao analyse the discourse of sharing in #health communication.
🟦Data comprises posts shared by patients of cancer on Weibo.
🔷Based on #GroundedTheory, a qualitative analysis is done.
🔷Emotional support is a shared concern across cultures.
September 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM