The deadline of the Critical Policy Discourse Analysis Conference, which will take place on 15–18 June 2026 in #Sheffield, UK, has been extended until 16 April.

For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/critical-policy-discourse-analysis-conference

#CriticalDiscourseAnalysis #Policy #PolicyAnalysis #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies

General registration is now open for the II International Symposium: Discourses of #Power, #Resistance and Reaction in the Global Era. This event will take place online, from May 19th to the 21st, 2026. The purpose of the symposium is to offer an interdisciplinary and international platform for dialogue and exchange on the ideological and discursive tensions shaping today’s polarized world.

For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/ii-international-symposium-centre-discourse-studies-discourses-power-resistance-and-reaction

#Discourse #DiscourseStudies #DiscourseAnalysis #Polarization

The CfP for our DN34 International Conference on #Discourse, #Identity and #Polarisation is now open. It will be held 10–12 November 2026 at #Vilnius University and online. The call for papers and panel proposals is open until 15 May 2026. This conference provides an interdisciplinary space for examining how individual and group identities are discursively constructed in today’s increasingly polarised societies, and how discourse both reflects and shapes emerging social divisions.

For more information visit: https://discourseanalysis.net/DN34

#DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies

#CfP:

DI14: Diskurs – discourse – diskurssi – discours. Bringing discourse studies into translingual dialogue.

Turku, 22-23 October 2026
#discourseanalysis #linguistics

We invite discourse researchers to familiarise themselves with and critically discuss each other’s understandings and methodological applications of discourse. The conference seeks to create a productive space for interdisciplinary, translingual
dialogue and theoretical and methodological exchange.

https://discourseanalysis.net/en/di14-diskurs-discourse-diskurssi-discours-bringing-discourse-studies-translingual-dialogue?language=en

📣 Major update to RedditScraper: researchers can now opt to extract comments (and replies) along with posts/articles, and there's a new mode to extract a single post with its thread of comments and replies.

https://corpustools.prendrelangue.fr/redditscraper/

@linguistics

#linguistics #discourseanalysis

You still have a chance to submit an Abstract for our 2026 Congress with ALED in #Puebla, #Mexico, until February 1., 2026.

https://discourseanalysis.net/en/ALED-DN2026 #DiscourseAnalysis #DiscourseStudies #CDA

📣 RedditScraper, already a browser plugin, now also lives as a web app to help you build corpora of Reddit posts for discourse analysis.

https://corpustools.prendrelangue.fr/redditscraper/

#linguistics #discourseanalysis

„How to use critical discourse analysis in your research“

In-person #workshop for PhD students & early career researchers
15 & 16 January 2026, Sheffield, UK

With:
Professor Tom Bartlett, University of Glasgow | Dr Michael Farrelly, Discourse Academy | Dr Michael Kranert, University of Southampton | Dr Jane Mulderrig, University of Sheffield

For more information see: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/how-use-critical-discourse-analysis-your-research #CDA #DiscourseAnalysis #Discourse #DiscourseStudies

Creating certainty where there is none: Artificial intelligence as political concept

Cristóbal Garibay-Petersen Marta Lorimer, and Bayar Menzat

(Big Data & Society)

"Recent developments in research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) have prompted a growing politicisation of AI. In this paper, we critically analyse how AI is being construed in public discourse and with what political implications. Approaching AI as a mobilising political concept, and focusing on the public pronouncements made by influential tech commentators, we identify and subject to technical and critical scrutiny four key themes in contemporary discourses on AI. First, we show how AI discourses endorse anthropological commitments that create false equivalences between human and artificial intelligence, and suggest that all are equally affected by AI. Second, we demonstrate that AI discourses unproblematically indulge in agential constructs, which ascribe agency to AI while obfuscating the role of humans in its development. Third, we explain how the economic assumptions made by these discourses support specific political interests. Finally, we show that discourses on AI endorse a set of temporal assumptions that reduce the space for democratic intervention. We conclude that AI is becoming more than what its ‘technical’ specifications would warrant; however, this is happening in a way that limits the space for democratic engagement with, and control of, the technology itself."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517251396079

#AI #Politics #STS #DiscourseAnalysis