DocumentCode
2513222
Title
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Amazon.com´s Rise in the Media 1995-2008
Author
Cukier, Wendy ; Hodson, Jaigris ; Ryan, Peter M.
fYear
2009
fDate
25-27 Aug. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
10
Abstract
This paper uses Habermasian Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine the ways Amazon.com was constructed in the top newspapers by circulation in 2000 and 2001. It shows that despite the dot-com bust, and reports of low profitability, Amazon.com was generally constructed in a positive way by company insiders such as CEO Jeff Bezos, who successfully managed to frame news discourse about the company. These results present one case of successful discourse framing that played a role in influencing investor behavior and hype around the dot-com boom and bust.
Keywords
Web services; service industries; Amazon.com issue; Habermasian critical discourse analysis; dot-com boom; investor behavior influence; Books; Computer crashes; Councils; Internet; Mortar; Privacy; Profitability; Rhetoric; Security; Technology social factors; Humanities; Internet; Technology;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business, 2009. CONGRESS '09. World Congress on
Conference_Location
Saint John, NB
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5344-3
Electronic_ISBN
978-0-7695-3805-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CONGRESS.2009.27
Filename
5341718
Link To Document