Zone-Flooding as a Discursive Strategy of Czech Anti-System News Portals
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10484966" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10484966 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=cv~GoSoI_T" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=cv~GoSoI_T</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsl.2023.a936019" target="_blank" >10.1353/jsl.2023.a936019</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Zone-Flooding as a Discursive Strategy of Czech Anti-System News Portals
Original language description
The anti-system media (ANTS)-known for spreading disinformation- might seem to "flood [the media] zone" with a chaotic multitude of information: truths, untruths, and half-truths alike. The main goal of this study is to find evidence of systematicity in this seeming chaos: persistent and recurring narrative lines that run through the media class irrespective of the news topic. Two empirical methods (Keyword Analysis and Market Basket Analysis) are applied to large data from Czech online media (all articles, regardless of topic, from 40 ANTS web portals over three months in 2020). ANTS' narratives are advanced by creating specific associations. The current approach is based on the idea that texts can be characterized with the help of conceptual associations, pursuing concepts which co-occur within the same text regardless of sentence or paragraph boundaries. This approach thus differs from the frequently-used strategy in discourse analysis of examining phenomena such as col- locations, use of passive voice, or nominalization. The distinct properties of ANTS can be highlighted by contrasting it to the mainstream media class and to reader ex- pectations in journalistic practice. The results, culled from servers including those not explicitly sponsored by the Kremlin, indicate that a schematic set of narrative lines permeate ANTS: a model of the world divided into the West (USA, NATO, and the EU) and Russia, in which the West has a negative image relative to that of Russia. These narrative lines lead to an argumentation for Czechia's separation from the West (Czexit, leaving NATO) and for alignment with Russia.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Slavic Linguistics
ISSN
1068-2090
e-ISSN
1543-0391
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1-2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
37
Pages from-to
61-97
UT code for WoS article
001336415000006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85204496230