Identities, languages and media practices

The first path of research focuses on discourses, journalism and media systems, in particular digital ones. In this path the approaches followed are socio-discursive and semiotic-pragmatic, while the research aims at identifying perceptions and analysing the transformation of individual and collective identities into discourse by the media.

Whether these identities are in situations of conflict, identities forged by gender, or professional, regional or virtual identities, the objects examined require questioning from diachronic and synchronic angles, which are alone in rendering the rationales in play intelligible within the traditional and digital formats of media information, and making their social poignancy clear. The research also aims at identifying shifts related to the development of digital media; shifts in the frontiers between what is considered “professional” and “amateur” in professional identities and in the rationales of journalistic production (working conditions, relations with sources, business models, and the limitations of technical systems).