Discourse Context & Media
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| ISSN | 2211-6958 / 2211-6966 |
| Scopus | 21100203914 |
| OpenAlex | S2764413953 |
| MAG | 2764413953 |
| Website | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/discourse-context-and-media |
| Total publications | 656 |
| Coverage period | 2012 - 2026 |
| Country | NL |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 1.524 |
| Impact factor | 1.828 |
| SJR | 1.053 (Q1) |
| SNIP | 1.731 |
| CiteScore | 4.6 |
| h-index | 14 |
| i10-index | 32 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 0.2521 |
| Female authorship share | 65.9% |
This journal focuses on discourse studies, media, and communication. While linguistic anthropology and cultural studies are related areas, this venue's primary focus on media and communication places it as a cognate social science with regular, but not central, anthropological intersection
Communication · Cultural Studies · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Digital Communication and Language · Digital Games and Media · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
“‘Oh, women always…’. Yeah Image 1.” The mediated construction of medical gaslighting in an Instagram echo chamber
The use of the term gaslighting has increased prominently over the last few decades, both as a lay notion and a scholarly framework in the social sciences. Medical gaslighting, however, remains under researched, especially within digitally mediated discourse analysis. This paper addresses this gap by examining the construction of medical gaslighting as mediated discourse, that is, by considering how platform affordances and algorithms alongside u…
Performing gender in digital spaces: Verbal and multimodal compliment strategies among Jordanian Facebook users
From user-generated small stories to brand narratives: Recontextualization, humor, and asymmetric narrative agency through TikTok stitch
Affective expressions as interactional discursive resources: Constructing affective communities in WeChat support groups for DLD children’s mothers
The fallacy of AI-generated podcasts: The case of Google NotebookLM
This paper critically examines science communication discourse produced through AI-generated podcasts, created via Google NotebookLM. We propose a rhetorical-argumentative framework to verify whether podcasts mediating scientific reports propagate quality discourse or mis−/dis-information. We apply this framework to the qualitative analysis of a corpus of podcasts stemming from scientific reports about communication and media research. The study …
Recontextualizing problematic zuhui (graduate group meetings) on Xiaohongshu: Chinese postgraduates' mediated discourses and resistance
From interaction to design: Digital pathways to agency in dementia care
“You are not your illness…it is your responsibility to seek help” — Self-presentation, stance, and platform affordances in YouTube mental health vlogging
Translanguaging and multimodality in digital environments: Perspectives on translocal content creation
The guilt economy: Mediated discourse and the commercialisation of working motherhood in Korean Instagram advertising
The discourse of ‘beast of burden’ (niuma) on Xiaohongshu: A critical analysis of digital labor and self-deprecation
Compressing stories, producing authority: Retelling practices and interpretive control in platformed video re-creations
“How is Li (It) expensive?” The participatory entextualization of internet memes and metapragmatic comments on Chinese social media
Personal mourning in the “home letter”: Contextualization, living-dead communication, and a co-constructed afterlife
Divorce stigma on Weibo: A corpus-assisted social media critical discourse analysis of platform-mediated contestation
Despite rising divorce rates in China, the traditional “intact family” ideal remains hegemonic, subjecting children from divorced families (CDF) to courtesy stigma. This study investigates how this stigma is discursively constructed, negotiated, and resisted on Weibo, a leading Chinese microblogging platform. Adopting a mixed-methods approach, we analyzed 2989 comments on Weibo using BERTopic modeling and social media critical discourse analysis …
Coherence through sedimentation: Temporal organization and emergent interaction in Danmaku
This paper examines how coherence and participation are accomplished in danmaku, a commentary system on Chinese and Japanese video platforms where user comments scroll across the screen and are time-stamped to specific points on the video timeline. Although comments are produced asynchronously, they appear synchronously during playback, creating what has been described as pseudo-synchronicity ( Johnson, 2013 ; Liang, 2021 ). Building on research …
Shuttling between local and global scales: Transcultural agility of Chinese enterprises’ identity work on Twitter/X
Between power and performance: Multimodal rearticulations of fatherhood by daddy influencers in Chinese social media
Strategic maneuvering of emotion narratives in YouTube travel vlogs
Neoliberalism, feminist resistance, and the marketed self: A corpus-assisted critical feminist analysis of the childless cat lady phenomenon on Chinese social media
Shows how the “childless cat lady” is constructed on Chinese social media. • Explains how platform features shape contested gender discourse online. • Reveals how neoliberal ideals recast structural limits as personal choice. • Shows how irony and self-mockery are used to resist digital gender stigma. • Combines corpus methods with feminist critical discourse analysis. This study explores the “childless cat lady” discourse on Chinese social media…
‘Come on, all the girls’: ‘Girlfriends’ as a multimodal strategic device for selling on live e-commerce in China
Introduction: Dementia in social media discourse and digital interaction
Voicing the past: How voice strategy shapes narrative in history documentary
And they say Leftists have no sense of humour’: Sanctioning interpretive failures as discursive gatekeeping on social media
Sanctioning of misinterpretation participates in boundary work. • Boundary work is influenced by participation structures and levels of explicitness. • The failed interpreter – termed “un-addressee” – also plays a central role. Misinterpretations are an integral part of social interaction. They participate in the meaning-making process of the interaction, but also play a wider social role. The context collapse characterising social media advances…
Overload opacity: Countervisuality and glitch aesthetics in AI-Generated Brainrot on Instagram
How AI-generated memes negotiate between visual resistance and algorithmic co-option? By synthesizing Mirzoeff’s “countervisuality” and Glissant’s “right to opacity,” this article examines Italian Brainrot, a 2025 meme phenomenon, and introduces “overload opacity” as a platform-native aesthetic strategy in which sensory excess achieves hypervisibility while resisting interpretive legibility. Data were compiled from public Instagram pages in June–…
Microanalysis Of Online Data: The methodological development of “digital CA”
Muslims in social media discourse: Combining topic modeling and critical discourse analysis
This article combines topic modeling and critical discourse analysis to examine patterns of representation around the words Muslim and Islam in a 105 million word corpus of a large Swedish Internet forum from 2000 to 2013. Despite the increased importance of social media in the (re)production of discursive power in society, this is the first study of its kind. The analysis shows that Muslims are portrayed in the forum as a homogeneous outgroup th…
Digital cultures of political participation: Internet memes and the discursive delegitimization of the 2016 U.S Presidential candidates
Exploring the axiological workings of 'reporter voice' news stories-Attribution and attitudinal positioning
This is NOT a #humblebrag, this is just a #brag”: The pragmatics of self-praise, hashtags and politeness in Instagram posts
Racist call-outs and cancel culture on Twitter: The limitations of the platform’s ability to define issues of social justice
I know it's sensitive: Internet censorship, recoding, and the sensitive word culture in China
Communing affiliation: Social tagging as a resource for aligning around values in social media
Value added’: Language, image and news values
Languaging when contexts collapse: Audience design in social networking
Crowdfunding a “Real-life Superhero”: The construction of worthy bodies in medical campaign narratives
Linguistic varieties in style: Humorous representations in Greek mass culture texts
Chinese females׳ date refusals in reality TV shows: Expressing involvement or independence
Demonising the cultural Other: Legitimising dehumanisation of foreign domestic helpers in the Hong Kong press
Beyond the online offline distinction: Entry points to digital discourse
Discursive strategies of resistance on Weibo: A case study of the 2015 Tianjin explosions in China
Multimodal analysis of the nationalist discourse and historical inspirations of the spectacle of the populist right in Poland between 2015 and 2017
Gendering metapragmatics in online discourse: “Mansplaining man gonna mansplain…”
Leaders or readers, whom to please? News values in the transition of the Chinese press
Colonial intertexts: Discourses, bodies and stranger fetishism in the Brazilian media
JeSuisCharlie? Hashtags as narrative resources in contexts of ecstatic sharing
Design, resistance and the performance of identity on TikTok
I miss my old life”: Regretting motherhood on Mumsnet
Functions of emojis in WhatsApp interaction among Omanis
Selfies in ‘mommyblogging’: An emerging visual genre
Just like home: Remediation of the social in contemporary news broadcasting
The discourse deictics ∧and <-- in a World of Warcraft community
You'll need a miracle to win this election” (J. Paxman 2005): Interviewer assertiveness in UK general elections 1983–2010
Welcome to Discourse, Context & Media
Professionalism in political broadcast talk: The performance of a distancing journalistic self in formatted pre-election debates
Value added’: Language, image and news values
Towards a multidimensional approach to journalistic stance. Analyzing foreign media coverage of Belgium
Stancing: Strategies of entextualizing stance in newswriting
Diachronic changes in subjectivity and stance–A corpus linguistic study of Dutch news texts
Analysing evaluation in political cartoons
Multimodal expression of authorial affect in a British television news programme
Categories, norms and inferences: Generating entertainment in a daytime talk show
Statements as questions in interviews with celebrities: A Mandarin Chinese and American English comparative perspective on a questioning strategy
Bridging between the metal community and the church: Entextualization of the Bible in Christian metal discourse
Deprivation, distance and connectivity: The adaptation of mobile phone use to a life in Wesbank, a post-apartheid township in South Africa
SOS 112 what has occurred?” Managing openings in children's emergency calls
Facebook sharing: A sociolinguistic analysis of computer-mediated storytelling
Deleuze, Guattari and the use of web-based corpora for facilitating critical analysis of public sphere arguments
Silence and face-work in two chinese TV talk shows
Do consumer critics write differently from professional critics? A genre analysis of online film reviews
Was this analysis helpful? A genre analysis of the Amazon.com discourse community and its “most helpful” product reviews
Colleagues' talk and power after work hours: A community of practice in Facebook Status Updates
Non-verbal signalling in digital discourse: The case of letter repetition
Booyah Jim”: The construction of hegemonic masculinity in CNBC ‘Mad Money’ phone-in interactions
Engagement in online hotel reviews: A comparative study