Critical Discourse Analysis | Discursive Practice: 'The Homeless Read Mean Tweets'

CAMPAIGN: CHANGE THE CONVERSATION #HUMANSFORHUMANS

VIRAL VIDEO: THE HOMELESS RESPOND TO MEAN TWEETS

Table of ContentsIntroduction

Discursive Practices:AudienceProduction (including Genre)DistributionConsumption

Grice’s Maxims1. Quantity2. Quality3. Relation4. Manner

Critical Discourse AnalysisIntertextuality

ConclusionSocial ImpactAdvertorial (Objective)

Client |‘Raising the Roof’

•Non-for-profit organisation

•Industry: activist organisation for homelessness.

Campaign| Change the Conversation #HumansForHumans

Text | The Homeless Respond to Mean Tweets

•Viral video

•Social Media

Introduction

Discursive Practices1. AUDIENCE

2. PRODUCTION (INCLUDING GENRE)

3. DISTRIBUTION

4. CONSUMPTION

•Generation X & Y16 – 35 years old

•Online campaign•Social Media

Viral Video

•Parody: Jimmy Kimmel ‘Celebrities Read Mean Tweets’

Discursive Practices | Audience

•Intertextuality

•Parody

•Multimodality

Discursive Practices | Production

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Discursive Practices | Distribution

Discursive Practices | Consumption

Grice’s Maxims1. QUANTITY

2. QUALITY

3. RELATION

4. MANNER

Grice’s Maxims| Quantity

Grice’s Maxims| Quality

Grice’s Maxims| Relation

Grice’s Maxims| Manner

Critical Discourse Analysis1. INTERTEXTUALITY

Intertextuality

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Conclusion1. SOCIAL IMPACT

2. ADVERTORIAL

Social Impact

•Metaphor

Personalisation

•Identity

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