Citizen reactions to extreme right-wing on Twitter during the Ceuta “border crisis” (2021)

This article analyses the logics of how racist discourse and anti-racist discourse function on Twitter, based on statements made by the leader of the extreme right-wing Vox party on border security. With a “migration crisis” as a backdrop, which took place on the border between Spain and Morocco in...

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Autor principal: Olmos Alcaraz, Antonia
Formato: Online
Lenguaje:spa
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Publicado: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 2023
Acceso en línea:https://ref.uabc.mx/ojs/index.php/ref/article/view/1148
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Sumario:This article analyses the logics of how racist discourse and anti-racist discourse function on Twitter, based on statements made by the leader of the extreme right-wing Vox party on border security. With a “migration crisis” as a backdrop, which took place on the border between Spain and Morocco in May 2021, and through the systematic observation of the conversations produced on the network, we delve into the analysis of the discursive strategies of support for the racist politician, on the one hand, and of confrontation and rejection of the same, on the other. The work, a case study carried out on a sample of 766 publications, concludes with a diagnosis of the different forms of citizen reaction in this respect, as examples of social/civil participation, while at the same time highlighting the worrying normalisation of racist discourse on social networks in the context studied.