by Nico Carpentier

About Nico Carpentier

Nico Carpentier is Professor in the Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University. In addition, he holds two part-time positions, those of Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB-Free University of Brussels) and Docent at Charles University in Prague.

Discourse

book Keywords for Media Studies

No academic concept offers the luxury of being completely stable and uncontested, but the interdisciplinary nature of discourse studies (with strong influences of linguistics, political studies, and philosophy) has resulted in a particular diversity of meanings and uses. At the same time, exactly this diversity is its strength, offering many different entry points for the study of media, and encouraging us not somehow to choose the “best” approach, but rather to look at the menu that discourse studies has to offer, and then wisely select what fits the appetite best.