During the violent outbreaks of the Israel-Palestine-conflict in May 2021, two extreme opinions t... more During the violent outbreaks of the Israel-Palestine-conflict in May 2021, two extreme opinions took a very strong stand on various social media platforms. For instance, on the visual-based platform Instagram, where a particular cartoon was posted and shared multi-ple times. This cartoon, consisting of ten images, seeks to explain the conflict from one perspective, defending and supporting the pro-Palestinian side. As the conflict was transported to social media, the reproduction of antisemitic posts increased. As a case in point, I will examine the cartoon for antisemitic topoi in this article. The relevance of this analysis is to reveal the (often hidden) reproduction of antisemitism on social media, particularly when considering the problematic situation in the Middle East. Furthermore, this article will highlight the relevance of the sparseness of linguistic analysis of political activism on social media, especially on Instagram.
Conversation analyses are established methods in (applied)l inguistics for analyzing conversation... more Conversation analyses are established methods in (applied)l inguistics for analyzing conversations in different contexts. It is often applied to data from institutional communication such as classroom interaction. However,due to its strongfocusonthe data, classic conversation analysis oftenr eaches its limits when social aspectss uch as resources, identity, group membershipetc. are addressed. As apossible solution, this paper proposes interactional discourse analysis (Interaktionale Diskursanalyse)a sac onversation-analyticalapproach embedded in an ethnographic epistemology. This combination makes it possible to proceed creatively in af undamentally conversation-analytical way, but also create amore flexible research process. In addition, by reflecting on supposedly objective science, the researchers own positionality and its effects on the field, data and analysis can be suggestively addressed.
During the violent outbreaks of the Israel-Palestine-conflict in May 2021, two extreme opinions t... more During the violent outbreaks of the Israel-Palestine-conflict in May 2021, two extreme opinions took a very strong stand on various social media platforms. For instance, on the visual-based platform Instagram, where a particular cartoon was posted and shared multi-ple times. This cartoon, consisting of ten images, seeks to explain the conflict from one perspective, defending and supporting the pro-Palestinian side. As the conflict was transported to social media, the reproduction of antisemitic posts increased. As a case in point, I will examine the cartoon for antisemitic topoi in this article. The relevance of this analysis is to reveal the (often hidden) reproduction of antisemitism on social media, particularly when considering the problematic situation in the Middle East. Furthermore, this article will highlight the relevance of the sparseness of linguistic analysis of political activism on social media, especially on Instagram.
Conversation analyses are established methods in (applied)l inguistics for analyzing conversation... more Conversation analyses are established methods in (applied)l inguistics for analyzing conversations in different contexts. It is often applied to data from institutional communication such as classroom interaction. However,due to its strongfocusonthe data, classic conversation analysis oftenr eaches its limits when social aspectss uch as resources, identity, group membershipetc. are addressed. As apossible solution, this paper proposes interactional discourse analysis (Interaktionale Diskursanalyse)a sac onversation-analyticalapproach embedded in an ethnographic epistemology. This combination makes it possible to proceed creatively in af undamentally conversation-analytical way, but also create amore flexible research process. In addition, by reflecting on supposedly objective science, the researchers own positionality and its effects on the field, data and analysis can be suggestively addressed.
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