Lockdown scepticism
Australian and American doom discourse on Reddit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12641545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margo Van Poucke (0000-0002-4226-1714, Macquarie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Communication Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1424-4896 • E-ISSN: 2296-4150 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.24434/j.scoms.2023.02.3322 |
| OpenAlex | W4367853245 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent infodemic, user consumption of online news content soared, leading to the issues of doom-scrolling and doom-writing. This type of behaviour may have an adverse impact on individual well-being and increase exposure to misinformation on social networking sites (SNSs), including Reddit. The present critical discourse study combines Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Pragma-dialectics (PD) and critical theory to explore the roles of power and ideology in a corpus extracted from r/LockdownSkepticismAU and r/LockdownSkepticism, and to evaluate the Redditors’ argumentation. The analysis shows that the users of both subreddits appear to compensate a perceived loss of agency by making improbable statements about the future. The doomers’ arguments, as part of their online deliberations on issues relating to national COVID-19 prevention policy, reveal several fallacies. Linguistic evidence is provided for how biopower, in its ability to further life or death, is constitutive of the social norms to which both subreddit communities subscribe
Agency (philosophy · Argumentation theory · Biopower · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Headline · Ideology · Linguistics · Media studies · Misinformation · Political science · Power (physics · Public relations · Skepticism · Social media · Social science · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
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Affect-ing discourse
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Polarization Over Vaccination
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |