Constructing cancel culture: Strategic scaling in stories of “cancellation”

IF 1.4 2区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Discourse Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI:10.1177/14614456241276691
Elise Kramer
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Narratives about cancel culture are stories about problematic scaling—yet in telling these stories, cancel culture critics themselves engage in crucial forms of scaling. In this article, I analyze a selection of cancel culture narratives published in mainstream media outlets, focusing on how narrators define the here-and-now and project it into the future. I argue that in order to represent cancel culture as an “epidemic” of “ruining people’s lives over a single mistake,” these narratives must engage in strategic scaling processes that: (1) frame the event(s) prompting the cancellation as “a single mistake”; (2) frame the consequences as “ruining” someone’s “life”; and (3) frame the incident not an individual injustice but as a burgeoning cultural problem—an occurrence that is already too frequent and only becoming more so. This analysis demonstrates the central role that narrators’ scalar framings play in shaping the narrative’s moral and political implications.
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构建取消文化:取消 "故事中的战略规模
关于取消文化的叙事是关于有问题的规模化的故事--然而,在讲述这些故事时,取消文化评论家本身也参与了关键形式的规模化。在本文中,我分析了主流媒体上发表的部分取消文化叙事,重点关注叙事者如何定义此时此地并将其投射到未来。我认为,为了将取消文化表述为一种 "流行病",即 "因一个错误而毁掉人们的生活",这些叙事必须参与战略性的扩展过程,这些过程包括(1) 将导致取消航班的事件定格为 "一个错误";(2) 将后果定格为 "毁掉 "了某人的 "生活";(3) 将事件定格为一个新兴的文化问题,而不是个人的不公正--一个已经过于频繁,而且只会越来越频繁的问题。这一分析表明,叙述者的标度框架在塑造叙述的道德和政治含义方面发挥了核心作用。
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Discourse Studies
Discourse Studies COMMUNICATION-
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期刊介绍: Discourse Studies is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal for the study of text and talk. Publishing outstanding work on the structures and strategies of written and spoken discourse, special attention is given to cross-disciplinary studies of text and talk in linguistics, anthropology, ethnomethodology, cognitive and social psychology, communication studies and law.
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