Constructing ‘Gujaratiness’: a critical analysis of identity framing in pre-revival Gujarati cinema (1932–2011)

Simple SummaryThe management of dogs and cats in remote communities is challenging due to limited availability of veterinary services and high reproductive rates in companion animal populations. Support for animal management within communities is also weak, and consequently, programs delivered by external providers rarely achieve sustainable outcomes. An alternative approach whereby communities are engaged in analysing and understanding the issues, and designing solutions themselves, may help to achieve sustainable improvements in animal populations and health management. To test this approach, stakeholders involved with animal management in a remote Australian Aboriginal community were interviewed to gain their perspectives on animal management. By applying frame analysis to understand stakeholders’ perceptions, knowledge and power, interviewees fell into four distinct groups: Indigenous Locals, Indigenous Rangers, Non-Indigenous Locals and Animal Managers. The most important issue identified by all groups was the overpopulation of dogs, but there were differences in their framing of the problem and its causes. Frame analysis achieved the important first step of the process, identifying “What is the issue?”.Companion animal management in Australian remote Aboriginal communities (rAcs) is a complex problem, with multiple stakeholders involved with differing needs, knowledge, power and resources. We present our CoMM4Unity approach, a participatory systemic action research process designed to address such problems. In the first step, frame analysis is used to analyse stakeholders’ perspectives, knowledge types and power dynamics to determine their relative roles in animal management. Twenty individuals were interviewed from stakeholder groups involved in animal management in the remote, island rAc of Wurrumiyanga, Tiwi Islands. Frame analysis indicated that stakeholders aligned into four groups with distinct identity frames, knowledge types and power frames: Indigenous Locals, Indigenous Rangers, Non-Indigenous Locals and Animal Managers. All four groups shared overlapping perceptions about companion animals in Wurrumiyanga, and agreed that dog overpopulation was the primary issue. However, the groups differed in their strength of opinions about how dogs should be managed. Therefore, the situation is not one of diametrically opposing frames but more a misalignment of goals and values. Our application showed that frame analysis can reveal subtle variations in stakeholder groups’ identities, goals and values, and hence how they prioritise management measures.

Periods of social and economic crisis offer critical opportunities for journalists to interrogate gender inequalities, specifically the gender stereotypes and norms informing and perpetuating them. The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of this when gender inequalities were aggravated due to health, socio-economic, cultural, factors and emergency regulations in place. This exploratory study adopts a qualitative approach to analyse representations of women in mainstream media in Ireland during this time. Harnessing theoretical and methodological tools from Frame Analysis [Goffman, E. (1974). Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Vancouver: Harvard University Press] and Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis [Lazar, M. M. 2007. “Feminist critical discourse analysis: Articulating a feminist discourse praxis.” Critical Discourse Studies 4 (2): 141–164], discourses on key social actors and issues are examined along with the strategies and linguistic devices employed to construct them. Findings suggest that while a range of frames can be traced in the corpus which highlight women’s vulnerabilities, a frame focused on women’s health, specifically on experiences with maternity and related issues and services, was predominant, reinforcing the traditional association of women with the domestic sphere. However, the range of linguistic tools, sources and statistics employed demonstrates critical nuances among the newspapers studied, reflecting their different ideological positions. Overall, while inequalities faced by women during this period were acknowledged, gender stereotypes and norms were ultimately sustained rather than challenged.

Analyses of media discourses on judicial verdicts in sexual violence cases offer critical insight into how this topic is mediated. This study explores post-verdict mainstream and social media reaction to two high-profile verdicts in sexual assault cases in Ireland and Spain: #IBelieveHer, launched in March 2018 following the acquittal of four men accused of rape in Belfast, and #YoTeCreo which coalesced online after five men were given a lesser sentence for sexual abuse in Pamplona in April 2018. This study first identifies the stance taken by mainstream media where verdicts were contrary to “popular” opinion. Secondly, it analyses dominant hashtags that emerged on Twitter following both verdicts. Finally, it traces similarities and differences in discourse patterns identified on mainstream and social media platforms across both countries. For analysis, we employed a Critical Discourse Analysis-based theoretical framework (e.g.,KhosraviNik 2017, “Social Media Critical Discourse Studies (SM-CDS).” In Handbook of Critical Discourse Analysis, 582–596) with resources from Framing Analysis (e.g.,Goffman 1974, Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. Vancouver: Harvard University Press) for methodological purposes. Findings suggest Spanish print media contained greater debate around legal understandings of sexual violence while the Spanish Twitter campaign was outward-oriented and explicitly feminist. #IBelieveHer displayed a narrower focus, with the “celebrity” dimension to this case contributing to a personalised, less nuanced, discourse on social and print media and more polarised discussion.

This paper presents an analysis of Asia–Pacific international school web pages, and explores the expressed purposes of schooling, with regard to the kinds of students/subjects that the schools purport to produce. Using the concept of globalization as a ‘master’ analytical frame, it is argued that despite claims to offering students unique experiences, international school web pages reproduce similar discourses in the construction of the student as an individual, member of a community and world‐changing global citizen. Importantly, it is argued that while such discourses are often contradictory, this is nowhere more exemplified than in the claims to produce global citizens.

This research aims to describe the framing of the 2024 presidential election news on tvonenews.com and explain the interpretation of the 2024 presidential election news on tvonenews.com. The research method uses descriptive analysis with Pan and Kosicki's framing analysis approach. The main data used comes from political news published in the media tvonenews.com in the period 14 November 2023-14 January 2024. Then the data was analyzed using Zhongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki's framing analysis using four analytical structures, namely syntax, script, thematic , and rhetorical. To explain the interpretation of the news, the author uses Van Djik's critical discourse analysis with analysis of social cognition and social context. The results of the research show that Pan and Kosicki's framing analysis revealed that the news framing presented by tvonenews.com was unbalanced and in favor of one of the partners, which could influence people's attitudes and provide different interpretations in society.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to map, characterize and conceptualize the press discourse of NGO–school interactions within public education in Israel and in England.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on a corpus of articles published in key elite and popular daily newspapers in Israel and in England. The data were analyzed through two complementary methodologies, framing analysis (FA) and critical discourse analysis (CDA).FindingsSignificant differences were observed in the way the topic is framed in the articles, in particular between the different types of newspapers. The elite newspapers (Ha’aretz and The Guardian) tended to frame the events in a thematic manner even when they contained episodic discussions, while the popular newspapers (Yedioth Aharonoth and The Times) tended to cover the events episodically with no thematic coverage whatsoever. CDA of news items identified two major themes: financial issues, and problematization vs normalization discourse. Consistent with the FA, CDA revealed differences in the approaches advocated by popular and elite news outlets in covering news concerning NGO–school relations in each of the examined countries.Originality/valueIt is shown how popular newspapers offer the masses that depend on it a narrow and inferior coverage, of the problematic relations formed between NGOs and schools. A discussion of possible implications of the findings is presented, in light of the growing prominence of external entities in public education.

O presente artigo vale-se da contribuição de duas correntes teórico-metodológicas bastante presentes no campo dos estudos em jornalismo – a frame analysis (análise de enquadramento) e a crítica retórica – para desenvolver uma análise crítica do conceito de “valor-notícia de construção”, concepção oriunda da abordagem de autores da escola europeia, a exemplo de Traquina (2008) e Wolf (2003), com recepção significativa nas escolas de jornalismo no Brasil. Com base em autores como Goffman (2012), Gitlin (2003), Entman (1993) e Kuypers (2009), elabora-se uma problematização crítica do conceito de “valor-notícia de construção” e aporta-se no entendimento de que as duas tradições de pesquisa mencionadas oferecem uma matriz teórico-metodológica mais elaborada quando comparada com a classificação das notícias em parâmetros noticiosos estanques supostamente compartilhados pelo campo jornalístico.

This article focuses on the 2014 Hong Kong protests (also known as the Occupy Central or the Umbrella Movement), which have been one of the most high-profile socio-political incidents since the handover of Hong Kong’s sovereignty to China in 1997. It investigates how the protests were represented in the translated Chinese-language news produced by selected media from China, the UK and the US, and how these news articles were ‘reframed’ ( Baker, 2006 ) from their original English versions. The study proposes an analytical framework of corpus-based critical framing analysis, which combines critical discourse analysis, corpus analysis and framing analysis. It identifies some prominent news frames and several consistent framing patterns in the coverage of the protests: Reference News mainly adopts government and public frames and textual strategies of addition and omission; BBC Chinese employs social action and process frames, as well as a combination of framing strategies and devices at the textual, intratextual and paratextual levels; The New York Times Chinese (re)frames the events mostly through individual and geographical frames, and paratextual devices of news headlines and images. These news frames and framing patterns demonstrate the distinct political stances held by the media outlets towards the events.

Objective: This study examines how the National Football League's strategic promotion of flag football functions as a health communication response to chronic traumatic encephalopathy research and declining youth tackle football participation. Employing second-level agenda-setting theory, this Critical Discourse Analysis investigates attribute engineering patterns wherein safety, inclusivity, and legitimacy attributes are systematically bundled with flag football while maintaining unified "football" branding. Method: Analysis of 330 texts (National Football League communications n=124, media coverage n=178, public health statements n=28) from 2020-2024 employed four-phase coding: initial thematic identification, attribute frequency analysis, framing analysis, and agenda transfer mapping. Content analysis documented linguistic bundling patterns, authority source citations, and temporal shifts in discourse salience. Results: Three strategic communication patterns emerged. First, 89% of National Football League flag football communications employed safety terminology while 76% used the unmodified term "football," creating linguistic conditions for attribute transfer from non-contact variant to general category. Second, gender equity and inclusivity framing appeared in 94% of flag communications, positioning the National Football League as progressive institution while potentially displacing injury discourse through agenda competition. Third, Olympic legitimacy leveraging following the 2028 Games announcement transferred international prestige to "football" broadly, creating bifurcated discourse environments wherein flag football operates within corporate-dominated legitimacy space while tackle football remains subject to medical authority contestation. Conclusion: Findings demonstrate sophisticated organizational deployment of second-level agenda-setting mechanisms to influence discourse salience regarding youth football. This "agenda hack" maintains brand viability by strategically promoting a lower-risk variant while higher-risk tackle football continues generating revenue. Results contribute to health communication scholarship by operationalizing attribute agenda-setting in corporate crisis contexts, integrating crisis communication and legitimacy restoration frameworks, and documenting media mediation of strategic messaging. Future research should test whether discourse patterns influence parental risk perceptions and participation decisions. Keywords: Public Health Communication, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Second-Level Agenda-Setting, Youth Sports Policy, Framing; Corporate Communication, National Football League, Critical Discourse Analysis

Literature on conservation and land reform politics concentrates on how local actors are characterized dualistically as either environmental villains or heroes. Here I present three different frames as exemplary of the multiple narratives at stake as actors create environmental subjectivities in relation to political opportunity, based primarily on ethnographic field research in a case study of Projects for Sustainable Development (PDSs) located in the Transamazon highway region of the Brazilian Amazon. I argue that local identities are mediated by their shifting relationships with other interested actors. Through a historical analysis of different frames of identity and land use, I examine how and why representation struggles occurred and shifted, based upon the ways in which powerful actors took advantage of political opportunities. This led to indeterminate outcomes in different local struggles across the region. In the process, local voices were often undermined in favor of interests of more powerful outsiders. The political process through which such struggles occur yield geographically and socially uneven effects contingent upon key events and contestation from disparate groups.

This paper explores the Federal Court of Appeal’s (FCA) decision from July 4, 2014 that opposed the changes to the Interim Federal Health Program that traditionally provided a wide range of health care coverage for refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Using a case-study approach, I will explore the various perspectives, outline policy implications and analyze what changes still need to be made from both federal and provincial governments. I will argue that Canada’s current conservative government is using a neoliberal lens to justify their harsh, decision-making regarding this issue and it is an approach that disregards fundamental human rights. However, it is clear that the humanitarian approach that is used by both the advocates as well as Justice MacTavish is the most popular amongst refugees, asylum seekers, academics, health care professionals and many Canadian citizens who oppose these changes. In my analysis, I use both critical frame and discourse analysis to unpack the various perspectives on this debate and explain how the stakeholders have framed their argument to offer a holistic view for understanding this unprecedented court ruling.

Political news related to the 2024 election in Solopos has become complicated due to the rampant spread of manipulated information. This study aims to reveal the strategy of microstructural aspects in framing analysis using the Norman Fairclough approach to political news about the 2024 election published in Solopos. The method used is descriptive qualitative, with data sources in the form of nine articles from the May 2024 edition. The analysis process was carried out in four stages: identification of political news quotes, grouping based on microstructural aspects, classification within the framework of critical discourse analysis, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show that microstructural elements such as vocabulary, meaning (semantics), and sentence structure are important means in forming framing. In the vocabulary aspect, for example, the term "faction" is found, which contains political content. In the semantic realm, words such as "fail" in the phrase "Failed in the 2024 Election" have negative connotations, indicating failure to achieve goals. Meanwhile, in the sentence structure, certain arrangements such as "faction Y rejects government policies" indicate ideological tendencies and can strengthen certain political affiliations. Each of these elements is analyzed using the framework of Norman Fairclough, who showed that the choice of language in media texts can reflect power, ideology, and political communication strategies. With this framing approach, it is hoped that readers can better understand how popular media plays a role in the political realm. This study also aims to make general readers aware that political partisanship in Indonesia is not always neutral. The significance of this study lies in the application of critical discourse analysis (CDA) in the context of the 2024 presidential election, which shows how media such as Solopos can frame news to shape public opinion towards certain candidates and political issues.

This qualitative inquiry focuses on Canada’s environmental assessment (EA) of the controversial—now defunct—Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline as a case study. Adapting Fairclough’s (1992) approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a methodological framework, I investigated how Northern Gateway’s environmental effects were discursively framed and rationalized in relation to climate change, and how these discourses are connected to statutory interpretations and institutional norms. Using frame analysis and argumentation analysis as methods, I examined a corpus of publicly available Joint Review Panel (JRP) documents, federal statutes and official decision statements related to Northern Gateway’s EA. Findings suggest that the convergence of particular discourses, ideologies, institutional power relations, and entrenched discretionary practices tended to marginalize and depoliticize climate change considerations in Northern Gateway’s EA. These dynamics provided a foundation to rhetorically legitimate contentious project-related governance decisions, and arguably expose areas of potential concern in the contemporary EA and climate change context.

This paper explores the Federal Court of Appeal’s (FCA) decision from July 4, 2014 that opposed the changes to the Interim Federal Health Program that traditionally provided a wide range of health care coverage for refugees and asylum seekers in Canada. Using a case-study approach, I will explore the various perspectives, outline policy implications and analyze what changes still need to be made from both federal and provincial governments. I will argue that Canada’s current conservative government is using a neoliberal lens to justify their harsh, decision-making regarding this issue and it is an approach that disregards fundamental human rights. However, it is clear that the humanitarian approach that is used by both the advocates as well as Justice MacTavish is the most popular amongst refugees, asylum seekers, academics, health care professionals and many Canadian citizens who oppose these changes. In my analysis, I use both critical frame and discourse analysis to unpack the various perspectives on this debate and explain how the stakeholders have framed their argument to offer a holistic view for understanding this unprecedented court ruling.

This qualitative inquiry focuses on Canada’s environmental assessment (EA) of the controversial—now defunct—Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline as a case study. Adapting Fairclough’s (1992) approach to critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a methodological framework, I investigated how Northern Gateway’s environmental effects were discursively framed and rationalized in relation to climate change, and how these discourses are connected to statutory interpretations and institutional norms. Using frame analysis and argumentation analysis as methods, I examined a corpus of publicly available Joint Review Panel (JRP) documents, federal statutes and official decision statements related to Northern Gateway’s EA. Findings suggest that the convergence of particular discourses, ideologies, institutional power relations, and entrenched discretionary practices tended to marginalize and depoliticize climate change considerations in Northern Gateway’s EA. These dynamics provided a foundation to rhetorically legitimate contentious project-related governance decisions, and arguably expose areas of potential concern in the contemporary EA and climate change context.