John Scott Daly
Biographic Data
| ID | 736353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Scott Daly |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Daly |
| SIGNATURE | DALY J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8246-3161 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant: Contrasting figures of personhood in YouTube comments
The study analyses YouTube comments attached to an episode of Benefits Street (a British factual welfare television programme) which enregister two figures of personhood: “The static, unmotivated British benefits claimant” and “the dynamic, driven migrant”. Using Park’s (2021) critical heuristic of time, space and affect, the study finds that the welfare claimant figure is constructed as a social failure, and the migrant as both a yardstick (to m…
The selective foregrounding of social structures in factual welfare television: A multimodal analysis
Factual welfare television has been described as stigmatising and individualising – representing its participants as failures in a meritocratic society. This paper, however, revisits the 2014 British documentary Benefits Street and argues that it tends to humanise its cast, showing them as trapped in two social structures of benefits (i.e. the social security system) and street (i.e. the deprived local community). Using a multimodal critical disc…
The selective foregrounding of social structures in factual welfare television: A multimodal analysis
Factual welfare television has been described as stigmatising and individualising – representing its participants as failures in a meritocratic society. This paper, however, revisits the 2014 British documentary Benefits Street and argues that it tends to humanise its cast, showing them as trapped in two social structures of benefits (i.e. the social security system) and street (i.e. the deprived local community). Using a multimodal critical disc…
The selective foregrounding of social structures in factual welfare television: A multimodal analysis
Factual welfare television has been described as stigmatising and individualising – representing its participants as failures in a meritocratic society. This paper, however, revisits the 2014 British documentary Benefits Street and argues that it tends to humanise its cast, showing them as trapped in two social structures of benefits (i.e. the social security system) and street (i.e. the deprived local community). Using a multimodal critical disc…
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant: Contrasting figures of personhood in YouTube comments
The study analyses YouTube comments attached to an episode of Benefits Street (a British factual welfare television programme) which enregister two figures of personhood: “The static, unmotivated British benefits claimant” and “the dynamic, driven migrant”. Using Park’s (2021) critical heuristic of time, space and affect, the study finds that the welfare claimant figure is constructed as a social failure, and the migrant as both a yardstick (to m…
Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Welfare (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Foregrounding (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Linguistics (1 works) · Market economy (1 works)