This book examines digital grooming as a discourse manipulation practice in digital spaces that are situated at, or beyond, the boundaries of law. It identifies and examines in detail the online discourse of adults' luring of children for sexual abuse and exploitation (digital sexual grooming); extreme ideology groups' aligning others to their views (digital ideological grooming); and drug dealers' transactional endeavours in crypto markets (digital commercial grooming). Style and stance analyses of large and varied datasets reveal that digital sexual, ideological and commercial groomers' practices have more in common than not. Three stances-expertise, openness and avidity-scaffold their manipulative work, which relies upon and constructs identity homogenisation. Digital groomers' discourse seeks to construct them and their targets as inhabiting a perfectly aligned ideological, affective and overall identity space. The better aligned they are, the more likely it is that they will see themselves as being dis-aligned from another equally homogenously constructed identities: their opponents'. The findings of this book can inform practitioner-based attempts at countering digital grooming, including development of detection software and prevention-focused training resources"--
A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses on how language is used in the media, politics and the workplace; what discursive identities are constructed; and how interpersonal relations are negotiated.
This Element examines technology-assisted grooming of children for sex – henceforth, online grooming – as an illegal practice of communicative manipulation and, as such, something that research within the academic field of forensic linguistics is ideally placed to help counter. The analysis draws upon online grooming datasets of different sizes and provenance, including from law enforcement, and deploys different analytic techniques from primarily discourse analysis. Three features of online grooming discourse are focussed on: groomers' use of manipulation tactics; groomers' abuse of power asymmetries; and children's communication during online grooming. The Element also discusses ways in which findings derived from richly contextualised analysis of online grooming discourse can – when combined with co-creation projects involving child-safeguarding groups, children and lived-experience experts – add considerable value to societal efforts to counter online grooming and other forms of online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
This book examines digital grooming as a discourse manipulation practice in digital spaces that are situated at, or beyond, the boundaries of law. It identifies and examines in detail the online discourse of adults' luring of children for sexual abuse and exploitation (digital sexual grooming); extreme ideology groups' aligning others to their views (digital ideological grooming); and drug dealers' transactional endeavours in crypto markets (digital commercial grooming). Style and stance analyses of large and varied datasets reveal that digital sexual, ideological and commercial groomers' practices have more in common than not. Three stances-expertise, openness and avidity-scaffold their manipulative work, which relies upon and constructs identity homogenisation. Digital groomers' discourse seeks to construct them and their targets as inhabiting a perfectly aligned ideological, affective and overall identity space. The better aligned they are, the more likely it is that they will see themselves as being dis-aligned from another equally homogenously constructed identities: their opponents'. The findings of this book can inform practitioner-based attempts at countering digital grooming, including development of detection software and prevention-focused training resources"--
This Element examines technology-assisted grooming of children for sex – henceforth, online grooming – as an illegal practice of communicative manipulation and, as such, something that research within the academic field of forensic linguistics is ideally placed to help counter. The analysis draws upon online grooming datasets of different sizes and provenance, including from law enforcement, and deploys different analytic techniques from primarily discourse analysis. Three features of online grooming discourse are focussed on: groomers' use of manipulation tactics; groomers' abuse of power asymmetries; and children's communication during online grooming. The Element also discusses ways in which findings derived from richly contextualised analysis of online grooming discourse can – when combined with co-creation projects involving child-safeguarding groups, children and lived-experience experts – add considerable value to societal efforts to counter online grooming and other forms of online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
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