Discourse Analysis and Digital Media

TikTok under the spotlight: an analysis of NBC News' approach and the potential instrumentalization of TikTok through an anti-Chinese ideology

Paper

Michela Bon

08/04/2024

32 minutes to read

Unveiling the dynamics on NBC News' YouTube channel, this article investigates whether its portrayal of TikTok is impartial or influenced by an anti-Chinese stance, contributing to the geopolitical narrative between China and the USA.

Trumper than Trump? Vivek Ramaswamy’s Anti-China Stance & populist rhetoric

Paper

Prajakta Athlekar

28/02/2024

19 minutes to read

This paper examines the populist rhetoric of Ramaswamy through a critical discourse approach and how his anti-China stance actively contributes to a hegemonic position within US politics.

How Dutch conspiracy media include TikTok in their grand conspiracy theories

Paper

Ruben den Boer

21/02/2024

31 minutes to read

TikTok has been widely discussed and criticized in mainstream media. But the app has also been hotly debated in conspiracy media. How do they employ TikTok controversies to perpetuate their grand conspiratorial narratives?

Tweeting Fear: Affective Messaging and Anti-China Sentiments in Nikki Haley's Discourse

Paper

Isobel Huisman

05/02/2024

21 minutes to read

This paper explores Nikki Haley's affective messaging to shape public opinion against China and TikTok, exploring Haley's ideological language, narrative construction and how her discourse is received by the audience.

MeWe: Mark Weinstein’s technological utopia

Paper

Nikki Bergmans

12/06/2023

15 minutes to read

This article unravels how Mark Weinstein questions the surveillance capitalist hegemony of Silicon Valley and discursively constructs a technological utopia by translating his beliefs into social media platform MeWe.

Truth Social in the Apple App Store on an iPhone

The truth on Truth Social

Paper

Hannah Meijaard

13/02/2023

16 minutes to read

A discourse analysis on the platform "Truth Social", created by former US president Donald J. Trump.

Nebula: A (partially) creator-owner streaming service

Nebula: What does creator-owned mean?

Article

Joël Eduard Nicholas Grassère

11/10/2023

21 minutes to read

Nebula is a streaming site that combines capitalist and socialist ideas. Worker exploitation and commodified individualism are addressed on the site, through infrastructures. Meanwhile, they also provide a platform for leftist discourses

Ideology and Technology

File

In this new Diggit file, we bring together discourse analytical research on the ideological impact of the tech industry.