Germany’s Colonial Policy in Contemporary German Social and Political Discourse

Political discourse on social networking

The news feeds of two U.S. politicians’ Facebook sites were examined across 22 months leading up to an election 6 in order to explore changes in social-network-mediated public political discourse over time. Changes over time were observed 7 in who was being addressed and in the affective valence of comments. A complex flow of attention between in-group and 8 out-group concerns was observed with...

Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Representation of the Notion of Discourse in Colonial Discourse Theory

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

Veronica Kelly: The Melodrama of Defeat: Political Patterns in Some Colonial and Contemporary Australian Plays

This argument addresses some Australian contemporary, and one colonial, plays dealing with patterns of political impotence and defeat; where utopian, revolutionary or just liberal-progressive forces are defeated, dispersed or otherwise contained. Charles Harpur's Stalwart the Bushranger, written in various drafts from 1835 to 1867, will be examined as a paradigmatic text, since its tragic form ...

Analyzing Political Discourse in On-line Social Networks

Social Capital and Political Participation: Understanding the Dynamics of Young People's Political Disengagement in Contemporary Britain

Social Capital and Political Participation: Understanding the Dynamics of Young People’s Political Disengagement in Contemporary Britain M a t t H e n n ∗, M a r k W e i n s t e i n ∗∗ a n d S a r a h H o d g k i n s o n ∗∗∗ ∗Graduate School College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham E-mail: [email protected] ∗∗Graduate School College of Business, La...