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| Title | Immigrant-Friendly Stakeholders and the Use of Twitter as a Digital Third Space in Chile: Is That So? |
| Authors | Carolina Pérez-Arredondo, Anna Ivanova, Eduardo Graells |
| Publication date | 2025 |
| Abstract |
The study analyzes the digital and social affordances that Twitter offers to immigrant friendly stakeholders to challenge discriminatory discourses reproduced by hegemonic discourses offline. Specifically, we examine whether these discriminatory practices are reproduced in their interactions in this digital third space. 5,652 tweets from immigrant friendly stakeholders over a 3-year period were collected and analyzed following a Corpus-Assisted Approach to Discourse Studies. Results show inconsistencies in how the digital third space operates in proimmigration accounts. On the one hand, their tweets promote a positive semantic prosody that tends to inform about different ways to (legally and socially) protect immigrants. On the other hand, reactions to these accounts are varied, but they are overwhelmed by overt vilification against immigrants and immigration. Hence, political talk takes on different discursive forms enhanced by the digital affordances of this platform. |
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| Pages | 57-83 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Journal name | Journal of Language and Discrimination |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
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