The Mediated Communication of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Politics
Edited by Angela Smith and Michael Higgins
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 19:1 (2020) vi, 200 pp.
Angela Smith
List of John Benjamins publications for which Angela Smith plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2023 Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal: An example from the Covid-19 Crisis in the UK Journal of Language and Politics 22:4, pp. 458–484 | Article
This study examines how emergent Twitter publics are organised and engage with political scandal and personalisation during Covid-19 in the UK. The analysis is centred on a series of media events around Chief Adviser to the then-UK Prime Minister, running from May 2020 to May 2021. The samples… read more
2020 Just call me Dave: David Cameron’s perilous populist status The Mediated Communication of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Politics, Smith, Angela and Michael Higgins (eds.), pp. 10–29 | Article
This paper seeks to show how male politicians can draw on performances of masculinity to appeal to voters. The paper uses former UK Prime Minister David Cameron as an example of how performances of masculinity interact with the opportunistic use of populist forms of political engagement. It… read more
2020 The mediated communication of gender and sexuality in contemporary politics: From equality of representation to the re-emergence of the masculine The Mediated Communication of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Politics, Smith, Angela and Michael Higgins (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Introduction
2018 Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres, Patrona, Marianna (ed.), pp. 231–260 | Chapter
This chapter will explore how the rejection of the claims for equality are represented in the technology of the twenty-first century, but at the same time embody the language of a pre-feminist world and can thus be seen to at once empower and restrict feminist discourse. In this way, the crisis in… read more