Communication and discourse theory

collected Works of the Brussels Discourse Theory Group

Edited by Leen Van Brussel, Nico Carpentier and Benjamin De Cleen.
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Power, contingency and socio-political struggle

Special issue edited by Vaia Doudaki and Nico Carpentier
​Based on the Uppsala Colloquium

Selected collaborative Desire publications

Collaborative Desire publications (per year)

2020
  • Guiquan XU & Yiming CHEN (2020). Media Discourse Analysis in the View of Post-Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe's Discourse Theory and Its Application to Communication Studies (published in Chinese), Journalism & Communication
2019
2018
2017
  • DOUDAKI, VAIA & CARPENTIER, NICO (in preparation) (eds.). Special issue on 'Power, contingency and socio-political struggle', Communicazione Sociali. (Based on the Communication and Material and Discursive Power Dynamics Colloquium, co-organised by Desire)
  • TOMANIC TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA, NIEMINEN, HANNU, CARPENTIER, NICO & TRAPPEL, JOSEF (eds.) (2017) Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change. London: Routledge (chapters originally published as two issues of Javnost - The Public, partly based on the EURICOM colloquium 2014, co-organised by DESIRE)
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN & STAVRAKAKIS, YANNIS (2017) Distinctions and Articulations. A Discourse-Theoretical Framework for the Study of Populism and Nationalism. Javnost – The Public. Published online 5 July 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2017.1330083
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN & STAVRAKAKIS, YANNIS (eds.) (2017) Special issue of Javnost – The Public 24(4) on 'Populism, Nationalism and the Media: Constructing and Representing ‘The People’ as Underdog and as Nation'
  • VAN BRUSSEL, LEEN, CARPENTIER, NICO (2017) “Closing the book of life”, The hospice discourse and the construction of the dying role: a discourse-theoretical analysis, Vahid Parvaresh and Alessandro Capone (eds.) The Pragmeme of accommodation in connection with interaction around the event of death. Springer.
  • VAN BRUSSEL, LEEN; DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN & BERGER, MATHIEU (2017) Een discursieve blik op burgerdeliberatie: Het hoe en waarom van discoursanalyse bij deliberatieve processsen / Un regard discursif sur la délibération citoyenne. Le comment et le pourquoi de l’analyse du discours dans des processus délibératifs. Brussel: Koning Boudewijnstichting. Full text here
  • DOUDAKI, VAIA, CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2017) Cyprus and Its Conflicts: Representations, Materialities and Cultures. New York: Berghahn.
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN, ZIENKOWSKI, JAN, SMETS, KEVIN, DEKIE, AFRA & VANDEVOORDT, ROBIN (2017). 'Constructing the ‘refugee crisis’ in Flanders. Continuities and adaptations of discourses on asylum and migration'. In: Barlai, M; Fähnrich, B; Griessler, C, and Rhomberg, M. (eds.) The migration crisis: European perspectives and national discourses. Berlin: LIT-Verlag: 59-78. Full paper here
  • CARPENTIER, NICO (2017) The Discursive-Material Knot: Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation. New York: Peter Lang.
  • CARPENTIER, NICO (2017) Critical-cultural theory, media power and a multi-effect reality, Patrick Rössler, Cynthia A. Hoffner and Liesbet Van Zoonen (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Media Effects, Volume II. Malden: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 276-295.
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN (2017). Populism and nationalism. In Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo and Pierre Ostiguy (eds). Handbook of Populism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 342-362. More info on the book and electronic access to the chapter here.
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN (2017) 'Populism, Exclusion, Post-truth. Some Conceptual Caveats. Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”'. International Journal of Health Policy Management, Online first 15 July 2017. DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.80. Full text here
  • DOUDAKI, VAIA (2017, forthcoming) Foreign correspondents in Cyprus: Universal roles and contextualised practices. Journal of Greek Media and Culture 3(1)
  • VAN BRUSSEL, LEEN (2017) The right to die: a Belgian case study combining reception studies and discourse theory. Media, Culture and Society. Online First 17 July 2017.
2016
  • TOMANIC TRIVUNDŽA, & ILIJA, CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2016) Special issue on Anchoring the Critical in Media Research, Javnost - The Public 23(1).
  • CARPENTIER, NICO (2016) Beyond the Ladder of Participation: An Analytical Toolkit for the Critical Analysis of Participatory Media Processes. In: Javnost - The Public 23(1).
  • AMON PRODNIK, JERNEJ (2016) 3C: Commodifying Communication in Capitalism. In: Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism, (eds.) Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco. Brill Academic Publishers, 233-321.
  • CARPENTIER, NICO (2016) Community Media as Rhizome – Expanding the Research Agenda, Journal of Alternative and Community Media, 1(1): 4-6, https://joacm.org/index.php/joacm/issue/view/86.
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN (2016) ‘The party of the people versus the cultural elite. Populism and nationalism in Flemish radical right rhetoric about artists’. JOMEC - Journal of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies 9: 69-91. (Special issue on ‘Expressive culture and populist radical right parties in Europe', edited by Benjamin De Cleen and Torgeir Uberg Naerland) 
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN & VAN AELST, PETER (2016) Research on populism in Belgium. In: Aalberg, Toril, De Vreese, Claes, Esser, Frank, Strombäck, Jesper & Reinemann, Carsten (eds.) Populist political communication in Europe. A cross-national analysis of 27 European countries. London: Routledge, pp. 99-110.
  • DOUDAKI, VAIA, BOUBOUKA, ANGELIKI, TZALAVRAS, CHRISTOS (2016) Framing the Cypriot financial crisis: In the service of the neoliberal vision. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, published online before print doi: 10.1177/1464884916663601.
  • DOUDAKI, VAIA, BOUBOUKA, ANGELIKI, SPIRIDOU, LIA-PSACHALIA, TZALAVRAS, CHRISTOS (2016) Dependency, (non)liability and austerity news frames of bailout Greece. European Journal of Communication, 31(4):  426-445.
  • RUSSMANN, UTA & SVENSSON, JAKOB (2016). Studying Organizations on Instagram. Information Science and Technology 7(4).
  • VOBIČ, IGOR, MAKSUTI, ALEM, DEŽELAN, TOMAZ (2016). Who leads the Twitter tango?: studying the journalist-politician relationship in Slovenia through Twitter conversations. Digital journalism http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2016.1259002.
  • SLAČEK BRLEK, ALEKSANDER SAšO, ZAJC, JOžICA, MANCE, BORIS (2016) Connections between trust in journalism and patterns of media use. Medijska istraživanja, 22(1): str. 41-63. Download article here.
2015
  • ULDAM, JULIE, CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2015) Special Issue on Media, discursive struggles and political agency, Javnost – The Public 22(2).
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN (2015) "Flemish Friends, Let us Separate!": The Discursive Struggle for Flemish Nationalist Civil Society in the Media. Javnost - The Public 22(2): 37-54.
  • DOUDAKI, VAIA (2015) Legitimation Mechanisms in the Bailout Discourse. Javnost - The Public 22(2): 1-17.
  • TOMANIC TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA (2015) Are a Thousand Pictures Worth a Single Word? The Struggle between Condemnatory and Affirmative Discourses on Photographic Change in Slovene and UK Mainstream Media News Reports on Selfies. Javnost - The Public 22(2): 93-109.
  • KRAMP, LEIF, CARPENTIER, NICO, HEPP, ANDREAS, TOMANIC-TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA, NIEMINEN, HANNU, KUNELIUS, RISTO, OLSSON, TOBIAS, SUNDIN, EBBA, KILBORN, RICHARD (eds.) (2015) Journalism, representation and the public sphere. Bremen: Edition Lumière.
  • CARPENTIER, NICO, DOUDAKI, VAIA, CHRISTIDIS, YIANNIS (2015). Technological Struggles in Community Media. In: Atton, Chris (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media. London: Routledge. 483-493.
  • DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN, BERGER, MATHIEU, CALABRESE, LAURA, DEVISCH, IGNAAS, ROMIJN, FRANCOIS & VAN BRUSSEL, LEEN (2015) Solidarity and the right to health care. A discourse analysis of the Citizen Lab on the reimbursement of health care treatments. Brussels: King Baudouin Foundation (in French and in Dutch).
  • GEERTS, RONALD (2015) Lire et écrire un scénario. Le scénario de film comme texte. In: Journal of Screenwriting 6: 123-125.
  • SERMIJN, JASMINA & LOOTS, GERRIT (2015). Co-creating crazy patchworks: Becoming rhizomatic in systemic therapy. Family Process 54(3): 533-544.
  • SHEDAHEH, AMER, LOOTS, GERRIT,  VANDERFAEILLIE, JOHAN & DERLUYN, ILSE (2015) The association between parental imprisonment and the mental health of Palestinian adolescents. In: Child and adolescent mental health.
  • PAVLÍČKOVÁ, TEREZA (2015) Audiences Perceptions of Author: Is the Author Reborn or Did She Ever Die? In: Koldobika Meso, Irati Agirreazkuenaga, Ainara Larrondo (eds.) Active Audiences and Journalism. Bilbao: Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del Pais Vasco, 47-63.
  • SPLICHAL, SLAVKO (2015) Legacy of Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann: The spiral of silence and other controversies. In: European Journal of Communication 30(3): 353-363. DOI:10.1177/0267323115589265
  • VOBIČ, IGOR, TOMANIĆ TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA (2015) The tyranny of the empty frame : reluctance to use citizen-produced photographs in online journalism. Journalism practice 9(4) 502-519, doi: 10.1080/17512786.2015.1030137.
  • VODOVNIK, ŽIGA & GRUBACIC, ANDREJ (2015) "Yes, we camp!": democracy in the age of Occupy. Lex Localis - Journal of Local Self Government 13(3): 537-557.
  • YUKSEK, DERYA (2015). Alternatif Medya ve Direniş Kültürü: Sosyal Hareketlerde Birleştirici Güç Olarak Alternatif Medya [Alternative Media and Culture of Resistance: Alternative Media as a Cohesive Force in Social Movements]. In B. Coban & B. Ataman (Eds.), Direniş Çağında Türkiye’de Alternatif Medya [Alternative Media in Turkey in the Age of Resistance]. Istanbul: Kafka.
2014
  • CARPENTIER, NICO (2014) Participation as a Fantasy: A Psychoanalytical Approach to Power-Sharing Fantasies. In: Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin and Richard Kilborn, (eds.) Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. Bremen: Edition Lumière.
  • KRAMP, LEIF, CARPENTIER, NICO, HEPP, ANDREAS, TOMANIC-TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA, NIEMINEN, HANNU, KUNELIUS, RISTO, OLSSON, TOBIAS, SUNDIN, EBBA, KILBORN, RICHARD (eds.) (2014) Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. Bremen: Edition Lumière.
  • KAUN, ANNE, DE CLEEN, BENJAMIN, SCHWARZENEGGER, CHRISTIAN (2014) Navigating “Academia Incognita”: The European Media and Communication Doctoral Summer School and ECREA’s Young Scholars Network. In: Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin and Richard Kilborn, (eds.) Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. Bremen: Edition Lumière.
  • KRAMP, LEIF, CARPENTIER, NICO, HEPP, ANDREAS (2014) Introduction: Investigating the Everyday Presence of Media. In: Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin and Richard Kilborn, (eds.) Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. Bremen: Edition Lumière.
  • TOMANIC TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA (2014) Records of Facts or Records of Mystification? Brief Notes on the “Surplus Value” of the Photographic Image. In: Leif Kramp, Nico Carpentier, Andreas Hepp, Ilija Tomanic-Trivundza, Hannu Nieminen, Risto Kunelius, Tobias Olsson, Ebba Sundin and Richard Kilborn (eds.). Media Practice and Everyday Agency in Europe. Bremen: Edition Lumière.
  • CARPENTIER, NICO (2014) A call to arms. An essay on the role of the intellectual and the need for producing new imaginaries. In: Javnost – The Public 21(3): 77-92.
  • CARPENTIER, NICO & DOUDAKI, VAIA (2014) Community Media for Reconciliation: A Cypriot Case Study. In: Communication, Culture and Critique 7(4): 415-434.
  • CARPENTIER, NICO with the collaboration of Tereza Pavlickova, Giulia Airaghi, Silvia Bertolotti, Liesebeth Merckx and Itir Akdogan (2014) Engagement social, société civile et médias en ligne. Comment les organisations de la société civile peuvent-elles utiliser les médias en ligne pour renforcer l’engagement social des citoyens? Bruxelles: Fondation Roi Badouin (in French and in Dutch).
  • VAN BRUSSEL, LEEN & CARPENTIER, NICO (eds.) (2014) The Social Construction of Death. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • VAN BRUSSEL, LEEN & CARPENTIER, NICO (2014) Introduction. In: Leen Van Brussel & Nico Carpentier (eds.) The social construction of death: Interdisciplinary perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-10.
  • VOBIČ, IGOR, SLAČEK BRLEK, ALEKSANDER SAŠO, MANCE, BORIS & AMON PRODNIK, JERNEJ (2014) Changing faces of Slovenia : political, socio-economic and news media aspects of the crisis. In: Javnost - The Public 21 (4): 77-97.
  • MANCE, BORIS (2014) Od profesionalizma do "odmevne komore" : odnosi med novinarji in politiki na Twitterju. In: Javnost - The Public 21 (supl.): 23-40.
  • SPLICHAL, SLAVKO, DAHLGREN, PETER (2014) Media research paradigms : Conceptual distinctions, continuing divisions. In: Fabienne Darling-Wolf (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies Vol 7 : Research Methods in Media Studies. Wiley-Blackwell, p.39-64
  • TOMANIĆ TRIVUNDŽA, Ilija (2014) Mesec čivkov in mežikov: raba fotografije na družbenem omrežju Twitter v času predvolilne kampanje za volitve v Evropski parlament 2014. In: Javnost - The public 21 (supl): 41-58.
  • VOBIČ, IGOR, SLAČEK BRLEK, ALEKSANDER SAŠO (2014) Manufacturing consent among newsworkers at Slovenian public radio. In: Javnost - The Public 21(1): 19-36.
  • VOBIČ, IGOR (2014) Paradoks odbiranja tvitov na javni radioteleviziji: organizacijski, rutinski in osebni vidiki. In: Javnost - The Public 21 (supl): 59-76.
  • AMON PRODNIK, JERNEJ (2014) Sürüp giden metalaştirma süreçleri üzerine bir not: izleyici metasindan toplumsal fabrikaya [ENG: A Note on the Ongoing Processes of Commodification: From the Audience Commodity to the Social Factory]. In: Vincent Mosco, Christian Fuchs, Funda Başaran (eds.), Marx geri döndü: medya, meta ve sermaye birikimi, pp.: 301-366. Ankara: Notabene.
  • AMON PRODNIK, JERNEJ (2014) A Seeping Commodification: The Long Revolution in the Proliferation of Communication Commodities. TripleC – Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (1): 142-168. Text available via: http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/485.
  • AMON PRODNIK, JERNEJ (2014) The brave new social media : contradictory information and communication technologies and the state-capitalist surveillance complex. Teorija in praksa 51 (6): 1222-1241.
  • MARIËN, ILSE, JERNEJ AMON PRODNIK (2014) Digital inclusion and user (dis)empowerment: A critical perspective. Info 16 (6): 35-47. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/info-07-2014-0030
  • SANDOVAL, MARISOL, CHRISTIAN FUCHS, JERNEJ AMON PRODNIK, SEBASTIAN SEVIGNANI and THOMAS ALLMER (2014) Introduction: philosophers of the world unite! Theorising digital labour and virtual work - definitions, dimensions, and forms. TripleC - Communication, Capitalism & Critique 12 (2): 464-467.
  • CHEN, YIMING (2014) Public Opinion: Global Research of Chinese Image, London Volume,’ Jinan University Press (In Chinese).
  • CHEN, YIMING (2014) The Research of Presenting and Anchoring Communication Studies in China. Jinan University Press (In Chinese).
  • GEERTS, RONALD (2014) Naturalism and Reality in 'Treme'. In: Excavatio XXIV: 1-9.
  • DAS, RANJANA & PAVLÍČKOVÁ, TEREZA. (2014) Is there an author behind this text? A literary aesthetic driven approach to interactive media. In: New Media & Society 16(3): 381-397. DOI: 10.1177/1461444813481296
  • YUKSEK, DERYA (2014). Medialogue: Media as a Forum for Dialogue in Conflicts & Peacebuilding. Saarland: Lambert Academic Publishing.
  • VOBIČ, IGOR (2014) Practice of hypertext : insights from the online departments of two Slovenian newspapers. Journalism practice 8(4): 357-372.
  • VOBIČ, IGOR & MILOJEVIĆ, ANA (2014) What we do is not actually journalism : role negotiations in online departments of two newspapers in Slovenia and Serbia. Journalism 15(8): 1023-1040.
2013
  • TOMANIC TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA, CARPENTIER, NICO, NIEMINEN, HANNU, PRUULMANN-VENERFELDT, PILLE, KILBORN, RICHARD, SUNDIN, EBBA and OLSSON, TOBIAS (eds) (2013) Past, future and change: Contemporary analysis of evolving mediascapes. Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Press.
  • TOMANIC TRIVUNDŽA, ILIJA, CARPENTIER, NICO (2013) Introduction. In: Ilija Tomanic Trivundza, Nico Carpentier, Hannu Nieminen, Pille Pruulmann-Venerfeldt, Richard Kilborn, Ebba Sundin and Tobias Olsson (eds) Past, future and change: Contemporary analysis of evolving media scapes. Ljubljana: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana Press, pp. 13-22.​
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