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Please join us on Thursday 19 March at 4 pm for the first webinar of the hybrid Critical Media Studies Lecture Series<\/a>. It features Prof. Dr. Dominika Baran (Duke University, USA), who will be sharing innovative research on media, meaning, and sexuality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This talk presents two case studies of media discourse in Poland, focusing on theories and methods that draw from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and related approaches, and on how these can help us examine and interpret how words can be strategically appropriated, redefined, and recontextualized. The central thesis on which this talk builds is that meanings \u2013 of words, phrases, and concepts \u2013 are never stable and final, but rather dynamic and negotiable. They can become sites of ideological, political, and cultural struggle (Laclau 1990). Discourse analysis provides an excellent and concrete tool through which we can examine just how users of language \u2013 be they politicians, journalists, influencers, activists, or anyone else \u2013 employ tactics that shape meanings in particular ways. The two case studies discussed in this talk examine media discourse surrounding LGBTQ+ issues and what the \u201cphantasm\u201d of \u201cgender ideology\u201d (Butler 2019) in Poland. The first analyzes how the lexeme t\u0119cza \u201crainbow\u201d is used across liberal and rightwing media outlets in Poland and argues that it has become a floating signifier through which the contrasting visions of Poland\u2019s history and future are being fought over. The second offers a detailed discourse analysis of an email newsletter sent out to subscribers by a far-right Polish organization, Center for Life and Family, in which language \u2013 including mentions of \u201crainbow\u201d as a stand-in for \u201cgender\/LGBTQ+\u201d \u2013 is manipulated in ways that construct a particular, cisheteropatriarchal and Catholic nationalist version of social reality.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\nCatherine Tebaldi<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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