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dc.contributor | Department of English and Communication | en_US |
dc.creator | Nartey, M | en_US |
dc.creator | Yu, YT | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-03T00:45:05Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-03T00:45:05Z | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2056-3051 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10397/106079 | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications Ltd. | en_US |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | en_US |
dc.rights | The following publication Nartey, M., & Yu, Y. (2023). A Discourse Analytic Study of #FixTheCountry on Ghanaian Twitter. Social Media + Society, 9(1) is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051221147328. | en_US |
dc.subject | Discourse of resistance | en_US |
dc.subject | Collective action | en_US |
dc.subject | Digital activism | en_US |
dc.subject | Online social movement | en_US |
dc.subject | Social media critical discourse studies | en_US |
dc.title | A discourse analytic study of #FixTheXountry on Ghanaian Twitter | en_US |
dc.type | Journal/Magazine Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 9 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/20563051221147328 | en_US |
dcterms.abstract | This article analyzes tweets produced during the "fix the country" campaign on Ghanaian Twitter. It illustrates how the affordances of social media can empower campaigners and how linguistic choices, even on digital platforms, can be conditioned by sociocultural context, spatiotemporal factors, and local politics. The findings reveal three main discursive strategies utilized in the tweets to construct the protest as a discourse of contestation intended to resist social inequalities and promote a shared vision: (1) depicting the Ghanaian government as irresponsible, (2) portraying the Ghanaian people as victims, and (3) issuing a clarion call to action. These strategies were framed with various linguistic resources, and they enabled the protesters to recruit support for their objectives, mobilize the masses for social action, and lay the foundation for an offline demonstration. The article holds implications for the burgeoning scholarship on framing processes and the discursive strategies of online social movements. | en_US |
dcterms.accessRights | open access | en_US |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Social media and society, Jan.-Mar. 2023, v. 9, no. 1, p. 1-11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051221147328 | en_US |
dcterms.isPartOf | Social media and society | en_US |
dcterms.issued | 2023-01 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000998880100001 | - |
dc.description.validate | 202405 bcrc | en_US |
dc.description.oa | Version of Record | en_US |
dc.identifier.FolderNumber | OA_Scopus/WOS | - |
dc.description.pubStatus | Early release | en_US |
dc.description.oaCategory | CC | en_US |
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