J Mackenzie
Biographic Data
| ID | 67663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Mackenzie |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mackenzie |
| SIGNATURE | MACKENZIE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newman University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8137-5485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Threatened Futures: Trans Youth Advocacy as Gender Conspiracy in The British Press
This article presents a grounded critical discourse analysis of six feature-style articles published in right-leaning newspapers at the peak of negative media attention to Mermaids, a UK charity that advocates for trans young people. The results show how British “gender-critical” writers have manufactured a conspiracy-style narrative around the threatened futures of women and children, positioning trans young people as victims of an extreme ideol…
Support group or transgender lobby? Representing Mermaids in the British press
This article examines representations of Mermaids, a charity that supports trans young people and their families, in the British press.Using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, we identify and chart patterns in reporting between Mermaids' inception as a charity in 2015, and 2022, a turbulent year for both the charity and trans people in the UK more generally.The findings show that, in the early years, there is relatively little attention…
Can women have it all?’ Transitions in media representations of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and identity by a global newsroom
The paper examines changing media representations of Jacinda Ardern, former Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister, from the global broadcaster, BBC News Online, across three key milestones in the politician’s career: her appointment, re-election and resignation. Our socio-semantic analysis of this representation demonstrates how the media intersect her professional identity with age, gender, social class, and later, her identity as a mother. Whilst…
Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research
This article outlines ethical principles for 'participant-centred linguistic research' (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the involvement of participants. Linguistics, as a field, has strengthened its focus on participant-centred and socially situated research, recognising the value of better understanding our participants' practices and linguistic knowledge. However, this also…
(Dis)connected parenting: Context control and information management in single adoptive parents’ social media practice
Drawing on grounded theory research with parents who brought children into their lives in non-traditional ways, this article considers how three UK-based single adoptive parents navigate a complex set of risks, benefits and limitations as they construct mutually beneficial connections, friendships and support networks online. The discussion draws on media scholarship suggesting that, in response to contemporary norms of constant connection, digit…
Negotiating normativities of gender, sexuality and the family in gay parents' small stories
This article considers how two gay male parents negotiate normative discourses of gender, sexuality and the family in an interview context. Employing a three-level framework for exploring narratives-in-interaction, the micro-linguistic analysis identifies and unravels two gay parents' multiple layers of self- and other- positioning through their telling of 'small stories'. The findings support insights from existing sociological and psychological…
STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogyny on Twitter via #NotAllMen
This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with a qualitative analysis of #NotAllMen users’ discursive strategies. This particular iteration of #NotAllMen followed the disappearance and subsequent rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a 33 year old wh…
Balancing family time with fighting villains’
This study provides a feminist stylistic account of gendered agency in a set of Disney Heroes collectible trading cards designed for young children. Through a mixed-methods analysis of grammatical, semantic and social agency in the texts, we show how the representation of male and female characters in these cards reinforces limiting, and potentially damaging, gender norms around men being more socially agentive, having more impact on the world ar…
Motherhood online: Issues and opportunities for discourse analysis
I had to work through what people would think of me: Negotiating 'Problematic Single Motherhood' as a Solo or Single Adoptive Mum
This article considers how five single mothers, who used adoption or donor conception to bring children into their lives, negotiate a persistent and pervasive discourse of 'problematic single motherhood' in their interview talk. Tactics of intersubjectivity (Bucholtz & Hall [2005]. Identity and interaction: A sociocultural linguistic approach. Discourse Studies, 7(4-5), 585-614.), especially the overlapping strategies of distinction, authorisatio…
Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’
This article explores the discourses and related subject positions that are negotiated by contributors to the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk. Drawing on analysis of a single thread posted to this forum, I explore the ways in which participants, who present themselves as women and as parents, negotiate dominant discourses of gendered parenthood that position them as ‘mothers’, and often, by association, as th…
Identifying informational norms in Mumsnet Talk: A reflexive-linguistic approach to internet research ethics
In recent years, researchers working within the discipline of applied linguistics and beyond have discovered stimulating opportunities to study human interaction, rituals and behaviours online. But with these opportunities come concerns for the human subjects ‘behind’ online data, most notably, their rights to privacy and freedom from harm. Applied linguists working with data from the internet therefore have a responsibility to continually scruti…
Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk
This article uses a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore how contributors to a single thread from the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk, position themselves as ‘good mothers’. The qualitative analysis that is presented here, which draws on both the concept of indexicality and Goffman’s ‘frame analysis’, shows that Mumsnet users are able to negotiate the discursive forces that merge to produce the good…
An acoustic screening system for the detection of laryngeal pathology
Discussion group reports
Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk
This article uses a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore how contributors to a single thread from the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk, position themselves as ‘good mothers’. The qualitative analysis that is presented here, which draws on both the concept of indexicality and Goffman’s ‘frame analysis’, shows that Mumsnet users are able to negotiate the discursive forces that merge to produce the good…
Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’
This article explores the discourses and related subject positions that are negotiated by contributors to the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk. Drawing on analysis of a single thread posted to this forum, I explore the ways in which participants, who present themselves as women and as parents, negotiate dominant discourses of gendered parenthood that position them as ‘mothers’, and often, by association, as th…
STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogyny on Twitter via #NotAllMen
This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with a qualitative analysis of #NotAllMen users’ discursive strategies. This particular iteration of #NotAllMen followed the disappearance and subsequent rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a 33 year old wh…
Motherhood online: Issues and opportunities for discourse analysis
I had to work through what people would think of me: Negotiating 'Problematic Single Motherhood' as a Solo or Single Adoptive Mum
This article considers how five single mothers, who used adoption or donor conception to bring children into their lives, negotiate a persistent and pervasive discourse of 'problematic single motherhood' in their interview talk. Tactics of intersubjectivity (Bucholtz & Hall [2005]. Identity and interaction: A sociocultural linguistic approach. Discourse Studies, 7(4-5), 585-614.), especially the overlapping strategies of distinction, authorisatio…
Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research
This article outlines ethical principles for 'participant-centred linguistic research' (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the involvement of participants. Linguistics, as a field, has strengthened its focus on participant-centred and socially situated research, recognising the value of better understanding our participants' practices and linguistic knowledge. However, this also…
Negotiating normativities of gender, sexuality and the family in gay parents' small stories
This article considers how two gay male parents negotiate normative discourses of gender, sexuality and the family in an interview context. Employing a three-level framework for exploring narratives-in-interaction, the micro-linguistic analysis identifies and unravels two gay parents' multiple layers of self- and other- positioning through their telling of 'small stories'. The findings support insights from existing sociological and psychological…
An acoustic screening system for the detection of laryngeal pathology
Discussion group reports
An acoustic screening system for the detection of laryngeal pathology
Identifying informational norms in Mumsnet Talk: A reflexive-linguistic approach to internet research ethics
In recent years, researchers working within the discipline of applied linguistics and beyond have discovered stimulating opportunities to study human interaction, rituals and behaviours online. But with these opportunities come concerns for the human subjects ‘behind’ online data, most notably, their rights to privacy and freedom from harm. Applied linguists working with data from the internet therefore have a responsibility to continually scruti…
Can we have a child exchange?’ Constructing and subverting the ‘good mother’ through play in Mumsnet Talk
This article uses a feminist poststructuralist approach to explore how contributors to a single thread from the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk, position themselves as ‘good mothers’. The qualitative analysis that is presented here, which draws on both the concept of indexicality and Goffman’s ‘frame analysis’, shows that Mumsnet users are able to negotiate the discursive forces that merge to produce the good…
Good mums don’t, apparently, wear make-up’
This article explores the discourses and related subject positions that are negotiated by contributors to the discussion forum of a popular British parenting website, Mumsnet Talk. Drawing on analysis of a single thread posted to this forum, I explore the ways in which participants, who present themselves as women and as parents, negotiate dominant discourses of gendered parenthood that position them as ‘mothers’, and often, by association, as th…
Motherhood online: Issues and opportunities for discourse analysis
I had to work through what people would think of me: Negotiating 'Problematic Single Motherhood' as a Solo or Single Adoptive Mum
This article considers how five single mothers, who used adoption or donor conception to bring children into their lives, negotiate a persistent and pervasive discourse of 'problematic single motherhood' in their interview talk. Tactics of intersubjectivity (Bucholtz & Hall [2005]. Identity and interaction: A sociocultural linguistic approach. Discourse Studies, 7(4-5), 585-614.), especially the overlapping strategies of distinction, authorisatio…
STFU and start listening to how scared we are’: Resisting misogyny on Twitter via #NotAllMen
This article focuses on the strategies that were used to resist misogyny on the microblogging platform Twitter during March 2021, a time when the hashtag #NotAllMen was trending. We take a critical feminist approach, combining corpus linguistics with a qualitative analysis of #NotAllMen users’ discursive strategies. This particular iteration of #NotAllMen followed the disappearance and subsequent rape and murder of Sarah Everard, a 33 year old wh…
Balancing family time with fighting villains’
This study provides a feminist stylistic account of gendered agency in a set of Disney Heroes collectible trading cards designed for young children. Through a mixed-methods analysis of grammatical, semantic and social agency in the texts, we show how the representation of male and female characters in these cards reinforces limiting, and potentially damaging, gender norms around men being more socially agentive, having more impact on the world ar…
Negotiating normativities of gender, sexuality and the family in gay parents' small stories
This article considers how two gay male parents negotiate normative discourses of gender, sexuality and the family in an interview context. Employing a three-level framework for exploring narratives-in-interaction, the micro-linguistic analysis identifies and unravels two gay parents' multiple layers of self- and other- positioning through their telling of 'small stories'. The findings support insights from existing sociological and psychological…
(Dis)connected parenting: Context control and information management in single adoptive parents’ social media practice
Drawing on grounded theory research with parents who brought children into their lives in non-traditional ways, this article considers how three UK-based single adoptive parents navigate a complex set of risks, benefits and limitations as they construct mutually beneficial connections, friendships and support networks online. The discussion draws on media scholarship suggesting that, in response to contemporary norms of constant connection, digit…
Support group or transgender lobby? Representing Mermaids in the British press
This article examines representations of Mermaids, a charity that supports trans young people and their families, in the British press.Using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, we identify and chart patterns in reporting between Mermaids' inception as a charity in 2015, and 2022, a turbulent year for both the charity and trans people in the UK more generally.The findings show that, in the early years, there is relatively little attention…
Can women have it all?’ Transitions in media representations of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership and identity by a global newsroom
The paper examines changing media representations of Jacinda Ardern, former Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister, from the global broadcaster, BBC News Online, across three key milestones in the politician’s career: her appointment, re-election and resignation. Our socio-semantic analysis of this representation demonstrates how the media intersect her professional identity with age, gender, social class, and later, her identity as a mother. Whilst…
Ethical practice in participant-centred linguistic research
This article outlines ethical principles for 'participant-centred linguistic research' (PCLR), a term we coin to incorporate a range of linguistic research approaches that place importance on the involvement of participants. Linguistics, as a field, has strengthened its focus on participant-centred and socially situated research, recognising the value of better understanding our participants' practices and linguistic knowledge. However, this also…
Threatened Futures: Trans Youth Advocacy as Gender Conspiracy in The British Press
This article presents a grounded critical discourse analysis of six feature-style articles published in right-leaning newspapers at the peak of negative media attention to Mermaids, a UK charity that advocates for trans young people. The results show how British “gender-critical” writers have manufactured a conspiracy-style narrative around the threatened futures of women and children, positioning trans young people as victims of an extreme ideol…
Sociology (11 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)