Archive: social psychology
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History Does Re-actualize Itself: Intertextuality and Social Change
“There can be no statement that does not reactualize others.” Norman Fairclough (1992), a linguistic, quotes Foucault in his book Discourse and Social Change. In other words, nothing we say is compl
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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Stereotypes: Low Fidelity Digitization by the Mind
“Capturing” describes the process of selecting information by any machine. It describes how a machine chooses, and in what form it receives, its information input. How a camera “sees” and, subsequen
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog
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When can a token not be a token?: Indirectly legitimizing status discrimination through language
In his book “Discourse and Social Change” (1992) Norman Fairclough writes, “Discourse practices contribute to reproducing society as it is—explaining what is going on as well as transforming it.” He r
Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog