Critiquing “Mainstream Media” on Twitter: Between Moralized Suspicion and Democratic Possibility

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Critiquing “Mainstream Media” on Twitter: Between Moralized Suspicion and Democratic Possibility

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How can we understand the critique of mainstream media (MSM) in a political moment where intense suspicion of media and journalism has been normalized in reactionary discourses? This article addresses this question from a discourse theoretical perspective that is supported by a corpus-assisted interpretivist analysis of how the terms “MSM” and “mainstream media” were articulated in a January 2021 sample of more than 11,000 tweets from different time zones. We begin by clarifying the political...

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2023-06-30

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Phelan S / Maeseele P

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https://hdl.handle.net/10179/69847

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critique / discourse theory / hermeneutics of suspicion / logic of equivalence / mainstream media / moralized rhetoric / reactionary politics

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