Can the Powerless Speak? Linguistic and Multimodal Corporate Media Manipulation in Digital Environments: the Case of Malala Yousafzai

Paraphrasing Spivak’s essay, “Can the subaltern speak?” (1988), this paper will discuss how blogs can be manipulated by corporate media at both a linguistic and multimodal level, analysing Malala Yousafzai’s 2009 blog. Malala won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and is known for her activism in women’s...

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Main Author: Maria Sindoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2014-12-01
Series:Lea
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea/article/view/7644