cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58
title: Positioning and Identity in Digital Discourse

description: The impact of the digital transformation has been profound and far-reaching on communication and the transfer of knowledge. The aim of the present issue is to look into the different social practices originating from different settings of knowledge circulation and ultimately into the consequences of the (perceived) empowerment of non-experts and democratization of the Internet in the digital transformation. Generally, in communicative situations where online users can express their opinion freely, knowledge communication may be influenced and hampered by oppositional discourse practices, conspirational thinking, and by practices that contribute to group polarization, confirmation bias and the search for affiliative relations. Key questions behind the construction of communities concern basically identity construction and negotiation, and how this is achieved in human online interaction as well as via channel and medium's affordances, in CMC and SNSs. Whether we look at individuals or individual communities in their self-representation or we look at how communities are defined by difference in their conflictual relationship with other communities, identity is inextricably interwoven with positioning. The link between the two has long been in focus in discourse studies paying attention to the resources for negotiation of social identities and intergroup relations, also in relation to community formation. When focusing then on lexical choice in digital discourse, the construction of identity is thus inextricably linked with the identification of ideologies underlying digital discourse, with a focus on how lexical resources are employed to enact identities, activities, and somehow ideologies. Although significant inroads are made into multimodal and semiotic aspects of the texts under scrutiny, the dominant methodological standpoints in the issue are corpus analysis and discourse analysis. This enables contributors to primarily address verbal aspects of positioning and status, credibility and trust, as well as the expression of attitude, point of view and ideologies – which ultimately reflects different folk epistemologies and social stereotypes, and specific takes on old and new cultural keywords.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p1
title: Title Page
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p3
title: Table of Contents
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p5
title: Positioning and identity in digital discourse. An introduction

description: The present paper provides a brief introduction to identity, positioning and ideologies in studies on digital discourse and the digital transformation. Following an overview of research on central problems relevant to knowledge communication and knowledge dissemination, the article gives an outline of the individual case studies selected for inclusion in this special issue.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p23
title: Oppositional Discourse in the digital transformation. A contrastive analysis between face-to-face and video-mediated interviews in English

description: This paper explores Oppositional Discourse (OD) with special attention to video-mediated communication in English. I will first qualify the various dimensions of OD as well as its linguistic triggers. Then, I will carry out an exploratory study to test if and to what extent the digital transformation has contributed to possible changes in OD strategies; to do so, a subset of the InterDiplo Covid-19 Corpus, developed at the University of Verona, Italy, will be analyzed. The Corpus covers face-to-face and video-mediated interviews carried out in English between journalists and diplomats/politicians/science experts from different lingua-cultural backgrounds, and is specifically tagged to concentrate on the question-answer interface between interviewer and interviewee. The subcorpus taken into consideration for the present study covers two equal sets of face-to-face and video-mediated interviews to compare non-linguistic and linguistic aspects. The data yielded by this pilot analysis point to differences in the actualization of OD between the two subsets, thus suggesting that the video-mediated environment does play a role in the way interviews unfold.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p43
title: Can interfaces and social profiles 'speak without words'? Social platforms as ideological tools to shape identities and discourses

description: User agency has been profoundly transformed since all the new digital practices and communicative exchanges are mediated, filtered and re-modelled through digital technologies thanks to the presence of the two potentialities of interactivity and connectivity. Most of the discursive practices represented in social media platforms are focused on processes of self-profiling. Additionally, pre-packaged identities and meanings are produced by multimodal discursive patterns that are generated by social network technologies. The co-deployment of different semiotic resources is regulated by the platform design, which combines multimodal artefacts uploaded by users with those pre-imposed by the interface architecture. So far, digital profiles have been almost exclusively investigated as new multimodal and multimedia digital texts. Our focus, instead, is on technology meant as a further and complex semiotic resource, and its meaning potential gives rise to hidden signs (metadata and algorithms) which are regulated by normative codes. What we are proposing in this theoretical contribution is a tentative framework that is grounded in an integrated view of textuality. Digital meaning is conveyed through texts but also via computational actions that, in turn, are triggered not only by users but also by platform technologies embodied by the interfaces. If we apply a further level of analysis, as suggested by the framework proposed, we realise that users are partially responsible for their identity construction. De facto, algorithmic relations mostly shape their agency, and this implies a new approach to the study of meaning-making processes in digital settings.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p65
title: COVID-19: Exploring linguistic indicators of conspiratorial thinking in the media. A case study of Coronacast

description: Health information is fundamental during an outbreak, but viral speculation can easily bury the limited information we have, notwithstanding the scientific community is making huge progress in understanding the Covid-19 infection and the World Health Organization (WHO) and other organizations are making a concerted effort to counter the infodemic and conspiracy theories (WHO 2019). A case in point is Coronacast, a podcast aimed at "break[ing] down the latest news and research to help [the Australian public] understand how the world is living through the pandemic". In order to see whether its aim was met, the podcast hosts' discourse during their daily episodes was examined through a cluster, collocation and concordance analysis to identify the possible presence of the CONSPIR tactic (Lewandowsky, Cook 2020). This tactic includes 7 traits of conspiratorial thinking characterized by Contradictory Logic, an Overwhelming Distrust of official explanations seen as Nefarious Intent to endanger people, and a conviction that Something Must be Wrong. Moreover, according to this tactic, the hosts would speak of themselves as Persecuted Victims, their narrative would be Immune to Evidence, and they would reinterpret Random Events as if they were woven into broader, interrelated patterns. Finally, this study added two more letters to the CONSPIR acronym – AC – as it examined whether the two podcast hosts express uncertainty in Anxious or Cognitive ways. This analysis seems to open the way for a better evidence-based understanding of the powerful impact of the ideological dimension of words being inculcated into Australian society's belief system by emergent institutions such as podcasts.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p91
title: Talking about freedom. Figurative tropes on the Marginal Revolution blog

description: The present paper looks into social engineering and social positioning on the Marginal Revolution blog (2012 to present), hosted by economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at the Marginal Revolution University. The focus is on the socio-pragmatic effects (Colston 2015) for speakers of verbal irony and figurative tropes like hyperbole – which rely on contrast – metaphor and metonymy – which rely on comparison – and other, less represented tropes. As a follow-up to Cacchiani (2019), we concentrate on the discourse around the cultural keyword (Williams 2015/1976) freedom. Qualitative data analysis suggests that core to active participants make recourse to figurative tropes for a number of effects. Their goal is to control and communicate specialized knowledge, argue their opinions, align or disagree with discussants within the blogging community, and ultimately reinforce their credibility. More particularly, verbal irony and related tropes do not appear to be a feature of posts about questions that are clearly critical in economics. On the other hand, they are found in conversation starters that address smaller questions, quirks, and apparently unimportant anecdotes and events of the day, and can readily emerge in the comments, as the thread unfolds. As regards socio-pragmatic effects, when present, figurative tropes appear to serve the purposes of emotion expression and elicitation, rather than cater for the personality-related needs of the interlocutors or express downright aggression.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p113
title: Bullying explained to children and teenagers. Knowledge dissemination, interpersonal meaning and participants' roles on educational websites

description: In recent decades, bullying has received increased public and media attention. On the one hand, recent digital transformations have exacerbated the phenomenon leading to new forms of online harassment (cyberbullying). On the other hand, the World Wide Web has allowed parents, teachers, and children to access information and provide and receive support more easily. Particularly concerning younger audiences, educational websites serve as an important channel for popularization. Not only do they make topics in various disciplines comprehensible to children and teenagers, but they also tackle challenging issues to develop awareness in the youth and eventually encourage them to take action. These web-based educational hypermedia are rooted in "edutainment" (combining education and entertainment), interactivity, and multimodality, which are exploited to make sensitive issues more accessible to young audiences. In this context, the present paper concentrates on two health educational websites for children and teenagers (Health for Kids and Kids Health Hub), specifically examining their subdirectories on bullying prevention. The analysis explores how these two subdirectories disseminate knowledge about bullying and address the different participants in this phenomenon (bullies, victims, witnesses, teachers, and parents) from a multimodal and discursive perspective. Special attention is devoted to transferring knowledge via recourse to different types of explanation, and to the role played by image-text combinations in engaging users. These strategies are shown to reflect the type of information conveyed and the different roles represented.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p131
title: News press releases in digital environments. A contrastive genre and corpus-based approach to promoting inclusiveness within two LGBT+ organizations

description: Press releases as a genre can be seen as a pre-formulation device for news reports, highlighting the relationship emerging between press release writers and journalists (Jacobs 1999). Within genre studies (Swales 1990; Bhatia 1993), company press releases have been shown to exhibit a set of standard moves and strategies (McLaren, Gurau 2005), which reveal their hybrid nature resulting from the tension between informative and promotional goals (Catenaccio 2008). However, the status of the press release as a genre has been questioned due to a continuous variation in stage combinations and communicative purposes (Lassen 2006). Digital technologies have also challenged the textual structure and the participation framework of the genre (Catenaccio 2008). This paper concentrates on non-profit organizations and examines the language and features of a pilot corpus of online news press releases retrieved from the webpages of a British LGBT+ charity (Stonewall) and of its closest Italian counterpart, the Italian LGBT+ organization Arcigay. From a genre perspective, the results suggest recourse to the same (recursive) rhetorical moves, which serve informative purposes and, crucially, are primarily promotional and persuasive in nature. Additionally, based on the corpus-informed analysis, investigation into the collocational patterns of selected top lexical keywords for each corpus (vis-à-vis EnTenTen20 and ItTenTen20), as well as their concordances, showed that both organizations presented themselves as cohesive and committed communities promoting inclusiveness, and supporting LGBT+ people and communities, which are discursively framed as threatened by homo-bi-transphobic violence.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p153
title: The discursive construction of equality, diversity and inclusion. Insights from an analysis of CSR reports in the USA, UK and Japan

description: Communicating Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) topics has become a 'must-have' corporate practice for firms worldwide and a key component of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting. Most studies have been carried out from a content analysis perspective and sparse attention has been paid to how the topics are discursively constructed. This paper explores the linguistic resources adopted in CSR reports to communicate EDI to both internal and external stakeholders. The analysis was conducted on a small sample of disclosures belonging to companies operating in three different sectors: Banking, Pharmaceuticals, Personal Household Products and Services, and headquartered in three countries: the USA, the UK and Japan. With the support of corpus linguistics tools, portions of CSR reports were examined in a selection of frequent words and their phraseology. The quantitative and qualitative analysis was intended to shed light on the main discursive and rhetorical strategies for the expression of EDI in its many forms.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10521960
title: Entrepreneurship as Self-Improvement

description: Interview list for the publication "Entrepreneurship as Self-improvement: Stories of Freedom and Precarity among Self-employed People on the Move in São Paulo and Barcelona." 

PDF codebook and XML metadata, along DDI standard
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10521961
title: Entrepreneurship as Self-Improvement

description: Interview list for the publication "Entrepreneurship as Self-improvement: Stories of Freedom and Precarity among Self-employed People on the Move in São Paulo and Barcelona." 

PDF codebook and XML metadata, along DDI standard
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p173
title: Eco-friendly language, sustainability claims, and power relations in green advertising discourse

description: As the global quest for sustainability and environmental commitment becomes more and more urgent, many consumers are now opting for products and brands aligned with their values (Mintel 2021). Indeed, according to a survey by the European Commission, 56% of average European consumers declared that "environmental concerns influenced their purchasing decisions" (EC 2021). Consequently, companies are now revising their marketing and advertising strategies in order to focus on eco-friendly claims, thus reversing the traditional image of passive consumers manipulated by advertisers (Wilke et al. 2021). In this context, the present paper investigates eco-friendly discourse and sustainability claims in a dataset of Italian food and drinks television commercials. The study considers 15 commercials recently aired in Italy for a qualitative manual analysis of textual and language features, in line with traditional CDA methods (Huckin 1997); a critical evaluation of environmental claims through a framework for greenwashing detection (Carlson et al. 1993) is also included. While attention is placed on critical aspects such as power relations between businesses and consumers, results suggest that environmental and sustainability topics are exploited in advertising to provide evidence of companies' sustainability commitment, and to please conscious consumers asking for more responsible production.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p197
title: New concepts and meanings of slow. The case of Slow Art

description: The present study explores new meanings and values of the word slow in the context of Slow Art Day, a global event that takes place once a year and whose aim is to encourage both visitors and museum curators to engage with art in new and different ways. Since 1989 and the early days of Carlo Petrini's Slow Food Movement, the concept of slowness has become a relevant and ethical topic that is often related to what is organic, local and sustainable. While the notion and impact of slowness have been studied in different areas such as food (Petrini 2003), media (Rauch 2011), medicine (Wear et al. 2015) and education (O'Neill 2014), museums are yet to be investigated in depth. Through the lens of Appraisal Theory (Martin, White 2005) and corpus linguistics (Sinclair 2004), I focus on a diachronic study of the language of evaluation adopted in the Slow Art Day official blog, which keeps a record of the reports of the museums that take part in the yearly event. By using both a quantitative and qualitative approach, I focus on how appraisal is used to enhance and promote the new and different semantic dimensions related to slowness. My analysis of the Slow Art Day blog will illustrate how slowness is no longer related to the semantic dimension of Time, but also to those of Wellbeing and Inclusiveness, while a close study of evaluative language will show how these dimensions are interconnected to one another.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p223
title: On the verge between Ancient and Modern Times. A linguistic analysis of Urban Exploration practices

description: Recently the fascination with the aesthetics of abandoned places has stepped into the limelight as a new form of tourism known as Urbex or Urban Exploration, which involves discovering abandoned places and reporting the exploration with documentary evidence on specialized websites and blogs. This paper aims to investigate online discourse on Urbex by analyzing how urban exploration is talked about in two different online spaces, i.e., interest-based communities where discussion about the activity of visiting abandoned places among members is fostered and encouraged (Reddit), and more public, monologic spaces, such as blogs and websites, where longer texts are produced with a more descriptive/commercial purpose. To reach this goal, a comparative analysis of keywords and selected key terms was carried out on two ad-hoc corpora, i.e., the Urban Website Corpus (UW-Corpus) and the Urban Reddit Corpus (UR-Corpus). Results show that the linguistic choices of urban explorers highlight the existence of tension between the core tenets and ethical principles of urban exploration - avoiding disclosure of exact location, focusing on sites disregarded by preservationists, awareness of legal repercussions for trespassing - and a shift towards a more mainstream, regulated type of activity. In the UR-Corpus, distinctive language forms suggest that Urbex aficionados constitute a discourse community.
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p247
title: Wine promotion on Facebook. A linguistic comparison of posts by producers from English-speaking countries

description: Facebook can be considered one of the main social marketing tools used by companies who decide to advertise their products online and who aim to keep in touch with customers quickly and effectively. Social media in general and Facebook in particular are characterised by a high level of interactivity, and visual, textual and linguistic features are strategically used to attract and involve potential customers and to get their feedback, thus enhancing the company's visibility on the market as well as the company's knowledge of the market. This paper analyses the language used to advertise wine and wine events through Facebook posts by producers from New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. Method-wise, this study applies the same analytical methods used by Manca (2021) in her analysis of the interactive and interactional strategies employed by Australian and US wine companies to advertise their products and activities on Facebook, and also some of the analytical methods used by Bianchi (2017a, 2017b) in her studies on Facebook posts written by travel agencies to advertise their destinations. Besides describing the metadiscursive features which are mostly used on Facebook by wineries (Hyland 2005), this paper aims to establish whether the forms of interaction and the positioning of the writers depend on cultural factors, the medium used or other variables
DOI: 10.1285/i22390359v58p270
title: Colophon
DOI: 10.20383/102.0510
title: Replication Data for: Global Metabolome Analysis of Dunaliella teriolecta, Phaeobacter italicus R11 Co-cultures using Thermal Desorption - Comprehensive Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography - Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TD-GC×GC-TOFMS)

description: Data containing the results of the analysis using ChromaTOF, as well as an open-source file format that is readable using MATLAB
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10522468
title: QISHLOQ XO'JALIGI SOHASIDA RAQAMLI TEXNOLOGIYALARNING JORIY ETILISHI VA O'RNI
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10522469
title: QISHLOQ XO'JALIGI SOHASIDA RAQAMLI TEXNOLOGIYALARNING JORIY ETILISHI VA O'RNI
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10522491
title: PROSPECTS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY UTILIZATION, ITS EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN UZBEKISTAN.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10522492
title: PROSPECTS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY UTILIZATION, ITS EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH IN UZBEKISTAN.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23514606
title: Data for Figure 1 and Figure 2

description:  Data for Figure 1 and Figure 2
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23514606.v1
title: Data for Figure 1 and Figure 2

description:  Data for Figure 1 and Figure 2
DOI: 10.18712/nsd-nsd2786-v2
title: TROPICO - WP3: Transformation on Individual Drivers and Barriers for Collaboration, 2018

description: Work Package 3 of the TROPICO project aims at explaining what drives public servants' willingness to collaborate with the private sector in Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Norway and Spain. That was done through a series of discrete choice experiments in which realistic scenarios of collaboration with the private sector was manipulated. In the discrete choice experiments, civil servants from Belgian, Estonian, German, Norwegian and Spanish municipalities were asked to choose, between two for-profit enterprises, the one that should become the new collector of bulky waste. The for-profit enterprises were described in terms of price and environmental, innovative and social criteria. The questionnaire also required civil servants to give information on the way bulky waste is collected in their municipality, their attitudes towards public procurement as well as their socio-demographics.
DOI: 10.34740/kaggle/dsv/7420504
title: 2021 World Population (updated daily)
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc28g430
title: CCDC 2098951: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Xing-Mei Hu, Rong Huang, Qiu-Lin Wen, Ying-Gang Duan, Xin-Ling Cao, Sheng-Jiao Yan|2023|Org.Lett.|25|1622|doi:10.1021/acs.orglett.3c00095
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.