Geoffroy Patriarche (Engage, USL-B) and Jan Zienkowski (RESIC, ULB) published a new article in the journal Recherches en communication from UCLouvain.
ABSTRACT:
This article calls for an investigation of the way media and information literacy (MIL) projects construct and (de)legitimize particular forms of political subjectivity. The authors argue that the field of critical dis-course studies (CDS) offers useful approaches to develop this line of inquiry. They demonstrate this point in a case study of the MIL project of the European Association for Viewers Interests (EAVI). The authors work with a concept of discourse understood as a performative articu-latory practice, grounded in linguistic pragmatics and poststructuralist discourse theory. The article provides a qualitative discourse analysis of the way EAVI articulates MIL signifiers with specific concepts of critique and citizenship. The analysis shows that EAVI’s discourse pro-motes a holistic transformation of the self into an informed, reflexive and critical entity, as well as a type of society that is inclusive, cohe-sive and participatory. EAVI is also decidedly pro-EU and opposed to nationalist projects.
This article is available in open access HERE.