Advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in Singapore.

This study focuses on the deconstruction of the dengue discourse. Dengue fever has been one of the more salient diseases in Singapore after 2005’s outbreak. Since then, the media has been flooded every year with anti-dengue campaigns. Using Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucault’s governmentality...

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Main Author: Chan, Esther Ying'en.
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Published: 2011
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-441362019-12-10T11:08:20Z Advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in Singapore. Chan, Esther Ying'en. School of Humanities and Social Sciences Mohd Saidul Islam DRNTU::Social sciences::Communication::Promotional communication This study focuses on the deconstruction of the dengue discourse. Dengue fever has been one of the more salient diseases in Singapore after 2005’s outbreak. Since then, the media has been flooded every year with anti-dengue campaigns. Using Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucault’s governmentality framework, I focused on how the government used the campaigns as a hegemonic tool to enter into people’s private homes in a bid to fight dengue, and to inculcate the sense of self-governance amongst the people towards dengue through direct intervention. Findings show that the dengue discourse is built upon the state’s family ideology, rhetoric of control and responsibility, as well as the conceptualizations of risk. Bachelor of Arts 2011-05-26T08:48:32Z 2011-05-26T08:48:32Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44136 en Nanyang Technological University 29 p. application/pdf
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Chan, Esther Ying'en.
Advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in Singapore.
description This study focuses on the deconstruction of the dengue discourse. Dengue fever has been one of the more salient diseases in Singapore after 2005’s outbreak. Since then, the media has been flooded every year with anti-dengue campaigns. Using Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucault’s governmentality framework, I focused on how the government used the campaigns as a hegemonic tool to enter into people’s private homes in a bid to fight dengue, and to inculcate the sense of self-governance amongst the people towards dengue through direct intervention. Findings show that the dengue discourse is built upon the state’s family ideology, rhetoric of control and responsibility, as well as the conceptualizations of risk.
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Chan, Esther Ying'en.
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author Chan, Esther Ying'en.
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title Advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in Singapore.
title_short Advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in Singapore.
title_full Advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in Singapore.
title_fullStr Advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in Singapore.
title_full_unstemmed Advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in Singapore.
title_sort advertising dengue : deconstructing the anti-dengue campaign in singapore.
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