Political Discourse in Post-Digital Societies

Bibliographic Data

ID16918880
AuthorsJan Blommaert (0000-0002-2474-953X, Tilburg University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume59
Issue1
Pages390-403
Publication date2020-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTrabalhos em Linguística Aplicada (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0103-1813 • E-ISSN: 2175-764X
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/01031813684701620200408
OpenAlexW3026462474
SCIELO_PIDS0103-18132020000100390
LanguageEN
Citations received34
References cited9

In his contribution to the Special Issue “Digital and semiotic mechanisms of contemporary populisms”, Jan Blommaert offers a communicability model which accounts for political discourse (and others) in the post-digital era we live. He starts by arguing that the idea of the public (a homogeneous entity) that was very popular in the 20th century sociological imagination of how propaganda worked in “manufacturing consent” can no longer be used to explain the fragmented audiences of our post-digital era. The author illuminates his argument by resorting to the circulation of political tweets/retweets as texts in our algorithmic-oriented world. Such a circulation aims at niched audiences. In the last section, the author argues that discourse analysts need to operate from this communicability model if they are to understand the cruciality of political discourse in our contemporary social lives

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Circulation (fluid dynamics) · Epistemology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public discourse · Semiotics · Social science · Social semiotics · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics

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