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The Role of Online Discursive Action in Subjects' Emancipatory Repositioning in Egypt: Assault Police Case Study
The current study's central question is how social change is discursively constructed. I studied an online feminist social movement that sparked in Egypt on Instagram in July 2020 and labeled "Assault Police." Within the critical social theory and feminism framework, I reviewed the literature on (cr...
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| author | Guirguis, Christine Saad, MA |
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| description | The current study's central question is how social change is discursively constructed. I studied an online feminist social movement that sparked in Egypt on Instagram in July 2020 and labeled "Assault Police." Within the critical social theory and feminism framework, I reviewed the literature on (critical) discourse, social change, and social movements. I tried to unravel the complexity around emancipation as a vital concept in the current study. I located and discussed areas of tension and identified a conceptualization that loosens the theoretical entanglement around it. The research problem sought to specify how the online discursive action facilitated desired outcomes of dominance resistance. For this purpose, I conducted Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) using multimodal analysis techniques to investigate Assault Police's published posts on Instagram—where it started. Additionally, I analyzed two newspaper and one T.V. interviews with the social movement's founder to get a well-rounded idea of the social movement's backstage and how it supported its outbreak. The findings showed that the social movement's struggle relatively succeeded in re-positioning subjects through discourse. Moreover, it interpreted the struggle as a resistance against power abuse backed by power imbalance and oppressive ideologies. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-3201 The Role of Online Discursive Action in Subjects' Emancipatory Repositioning in Egypt: Assault Police Case Study Guirguis, Christine Saad, MA The current study's central question is how social change is discursively constructed. I studied an online feminist social movement that sparked in Egypt on Instagram in July 2020 and labeled "Assault Police." Within the critical social theory and feminism framework, I reviewed the literature on (critical) discourse, social change, and social movements. I tried to unravel the complexity around emancipation as a vital concept in the current study. I located and discussed areas of tension and identified a conceptualization that loosens the theoretical entanglement around it. The research problem sought to specify how the online discursive action facilitated desired outcomes of dominance resistance. For this purpose, I conducted Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) using multimodal analysis techniques to investigate Assault Police's published posts on Instagram—where it started. Additionally, I analyzed two newspaper and one T.V. interviews with the social movement's founder to get a well-rounded idea of the social movement's backstage and how it supported its outbreak. The findings showed that the social movement's struggle relatively succeeded in re-positioning subjects through discourse. Moreover, it interpreted the struggle as a resistance against power abuse backed by power imbalance and oppressive ideologies. 2023-06-21T07:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2161 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3201/viewcontent/christine_saad_guirguis_thesis.pdf Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain critical discourse analysis (CDA) emancipation power ideology social change social movement online activism networked acknowledgment #MeToo multimodal analysis Critical and Cultural Studies Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Graphic Communications Mass Communication Social Media Speech and Rhetorical Studies |
| spellingShingle | critical discourse analysis (CDA) emancipation power ideology social change social movement online activism networked acknowledgment #MeToo multimodal analysis Critical and Cultural Studies Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Graphic Communications Mass Communication Social Media Speech and Rhetorical Studies Guirguis, Christine Saad, MA The Role of Online Discursive Action in Subjects' Emancipatory Repositioning in Egypt: Assault Police Case Study |
| title | The Role of Online Discursive Action in Subjects' Emancipatory Repositioning in Egypt: Assault Police Case Study |
| title_full | The Role of Online Discursive Action in Subjects' Emancipatory Repositioning in Egypt: Assault Police Case Study |
| title_fullStr | The Role of Online Discursive Action in Subjects' Emancipatory Repositioning in Egypt: Assault Police Case Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Online Discursive Action in Subjects' Emancipatory Repositioning in Egypt: Assault Police Case Study |
| title_short | The Role of Online Discursive Action in Subjects' Emancipatory Repositioning in Egypt: Assault Police Case Study |
| title_sort | role of online discursive action in subjects emancipatory repositioning in egypt assault police case study |
| topic | critical discourse analysis (CDA) emancipation power ideology social change social movement online activism networked acknowledgment #MeToo multimodal analysis Critical and Cultural Studies Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Graphic Communications Mass Communication Social Media Speech and Rhetorical Studies |
| url | https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/2161 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/3201/viewcontent/christine_saad_guirguis_thesis.pdf |
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