Recently, we have witnessed a growing interest in the analysis of social media as new public spaces (KhosraviNik, 2014; 2017), and the role of conflict in online interactions (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, 2015; 2017a; 2017b). Starting from these approaches, this paper investigates the Twitter discourse on the Gender Recognition Act, and its possible reform, characterised by a wide public debate on traditional and new/social media animated by groups campaigning for trans equality and feminist groups protesting against a reform they envisaged as threatening to women’s rights. Following a combined quantitative and qualitative approach to discourse analysis (Partington et al, 2013), the chapter will analyse a corpus of tweets containing the hashtags which characterised the Twitter debate on the issue.
#ComeOutForTransEquality! Twitter discourses on the Gender Recognition Act Reform
Venuti, m
2020-01-01
Abstract
Recently, we have witnessed a growing interest in the analysis of social media as new public spaces (KhosraviNik, 2014; 2017), and the role of conflict in online interactions (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, 2015; 2017a; 2017b). Starting from these approaches, this paper investigates the Twitter discourse on the Gender Recognition Act, and its possible reform, characterised by a wide public debate on traditional and new/social media animated by groups campaigning for trans equality and feminist groups protesting against a reform they envisaged as threatening to women’s rights. Following a combined quantitative and qualitative approach to discourse analysis (Partington et al, 2013), the chapter will analyse a corpus of tweets containing the hashtags which characterised the Twitter debate on the issue.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
