Free your 'most open' Android: a comparative discourse analysis on Android.
Through this paper, we convey a comparative analysis of how Google Inc. and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) discursively construct and contest Android, a dominant mobile operating system. Methodologically, we use political discourse theory to engage in the textual analysis; identify and c...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 56 - 72 |
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