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Competitive Discourse in an Imitational Democracy: The Multifaceted Image of the Opponents in the Online Materials of Russian Political Parties and Leaders
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In contemporary Russia, the Internet serves as the most diverse and open platform of sharing and contrasting ideas. While the most life-like imitational democracy elements do manifest themselves to a limited extent in the mainstream print and electronic media, only online do all political forces...
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Retreats Into Nomadism: Negotiating "The Good Life" in the Intimate Publics of Postfeminist Online Culture
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This dissertation explores how models of the “good life” promoted within the “solo female” travel blog genre are inflected by postfeminist sensibilities of retreat. Specifically, it looks at an emerging cultural current I call the “retreat into nomadism” paradigm in lifestyle blogging. I look at...
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Spring 2012
Islamophobic rhetoric used by popular media: such as television, newspapers and blogs, has heightened the fear of Islam to levels that have contributed to the US and Canada beginning to institute anti-Shari’a legislation. The financial backers of this rhetoric realise that fear has a strong...
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Fall 2011
Representation of Self and Others is a wide-spread focus of research among scholars from many disciplines. This study approaches the phenomenon of Self and Other from a linguistic standpoint. The main goal is to reveal methods of creating images of Self and Others in the context of blogs and link...