Quotes

"Dialogue is mutual search for a new reality, not debate to win with stronger arguments. In a dialogue propositions are pointers toward a common new reality; not against each other to win a verbal battle, but complementing each other in an effort to accommodate legitimate goals of all parties, inspired by theories and values, and constructive-creative-concrete enough to become a causa finalis". Galtuung


"I use the concept of affect as away of talking about a margin of manouverability, the 'where we might be able to go' and 'what we might be able to do' in every present situation. I guess 'affect' is a word I use for 'hope': Massumi


"A discourse is a system of words, actions, rules, beliefs, and institutions that share common values. Particular discourses sustain particular worldviews. We might even think of a discourse as a worldview in action. Discourses tend to be invisible--taken for granted as part of the fabric of reality."Fairclough


Emergence is “the principle that entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the whole, not to its parts.” Checkland


"What the designer cares about is whether the user perceives that some action is possible (or in the case of perceived non-affordances, not possible)." Norman




Tuesday, 1 March 2011

CDA Notes

The role of discourse in the reproduction and challenge of Dominance and Inequality

Control via action & cognition (management of social representations p257)
Social cognitions mediate between macro and micro aspects of society, they are shared and presupposed by group members

evaluative beliefs have a schemata form based on categories

Evaluative Beleifs>Norms> Ideologies

Dominance: exercise of social power by elites institutions or groups

Reproduction via: overt suppport, enactment,representation, legitimation, denial, mitigation, concealment.


Power may be jointly produced when dominated groups are pursuaded that dominace is "natural"

CDA tends to concentrate on elites and their

History - Marx - Frankfurt School - Habermas

Ultimately it's success is measured by it's effectiveness and relevance contribution to change (p253)



from Van Djik Principles of critical Discourse analysis

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