‘Relatively civilized, relatively European’: Offence and online (de)normalization of media racism

IF 2.4 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2023-05-04 DOI:10.1177/09579265231173264
Thulfiqar Hussein M. Altahmazi, Raith Zeher Abid
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The paper explores the interplay of offence, (de)normalization and moral conflict triggered by media racism. The paper is premised on the assumption that public interventions to moral transgressions occasion moral conflicts in which transgressions can be (de)normalized through impoliteness, more specifically the acts of offence taking and causing. A YouTube video discussing the racist media coverage of the Ukrainian refugee crisis was analyzed along with a sizable amount of related user-generated comments. The analysis showed that offence taking and offence causing have morally restorative and (de)normalizing functions in moral conflict. This highlights the fact that the relationship between morality and impoliteness is much more complex than is usually theorized, wherein impoliteness is often perceived as a morally norm-disruptive behavior or a negatively valenced evaluation thereof. Not only can impoliteness be morally justified in moral conflicts, it can also be a necessary form of restorative public intervention. This necessitates greater attention to (de)normalization in (im)politeness theorizing.
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“相对文明,相对欧洲人”:媒体种族主义的犯罪和网络(去)正常化
本文探讨了媒体种族主义引发的冒犯、(去)规范和道德冲突的相互作用。本文的前提假设是,对道德越轨行为的公共干预会引发道德冲突,其中越轨行为可以通过不礼貌(更具体地说,是采取和引起冒犯的行为)被(去)正常化。一段YouTube视频讨论了种族主义媒体对乌克兰难民危机的报道,并分析了大量相关的用户评论。分析表明,在道德冲突中,犯罪行为和犯罪行为具有道德恢复和(去)规范的功能。这突出了一个事实,即道德和不礼貌之间的关系比通常理论化的要复杂得多,其中不礼貌通常被视为一种破坏道德规范的行为或对其的负面评价。在道德冲突中,不礼貌不仅在道德上是合理的,而且也是一种必要的恢复性公共干预形式。这就需要更多地关注(非)礼貌理论化中的(非)规范化。
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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