Critical discourse analysis of online resistance against compulsory hijab law in facebook postings, Iran by Dehghan., Ehsan

“…This study, employing the Discourse-Historical Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis, is an attempt to fill this gap by investigating a corpora consisting of over 500 Facebook posts by pages created for the purpose of resisting compulsory hijab in Iran. The findings of the study point to a strong dichotomization of Self and Others in the online Iranian discourse of hijab, in which the Self is comprised of Iranian women, while the Others are pro-state and procompulsory-hijab men. …”
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Facebook as a tool for discursive resistance: a case study by Dehghan, Ehsan, Mohamad Ali, Afida

“…This study, employing the Discourse-Historical Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis, investigates a corpora of over 500 Facebook posts by the most popular pages created for the purpose of resisting compulsory hijab in Iran. In contrast to the dichotomization and Xenophobia reported in studies on similar discourses, our findings point to a trichotomized discourse, in which the Self is identified against a negatively represented domestic Other (Oikophobia), and a positively framed foreign Other (Xenophilia). …”
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