Critical Discourse Analysis on Cancel Culture and Academic Freedom
Analyse
What’s already known and said about the issue? , i.e. what are the existing debates around this topic?
- Public Debates: exploring what is means to think of a debate discursively
Thinking discursively
- Whose voices are heard?
- How are terms being used (e.g. academic freedom, cancel culture, mob, etc.)?
- How do repeated framings set the course of certain debates?
Example toolbox: pay attention to procedures which contains discourse and which lead to discourse being produced (Mills,2003)
- Taboo – What are people allowed to say without being punished
- Who is being cancelled and for what
- Distinguishing between mad and sane
- Who does and doesn’t get to speak (whose voices are being heard)
- Eg some says something and get cancelled which destroys their life
- Distinguish between true and false
- What is considered expert knowledge and what knowledge is considered as self-evident
- g its self-evident that cancel doesn’t fixes society is that true of false
- How and what is said to be true and false
