Polarization and discursive strategies in the surrogacy debate on Twitter
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The main objective of this article is to study the formation of the public debate on social networks, specifically on Twitter, on surrogacy, to examine the discursive strategies of the different agents in the conversation and to determine whether and how polarisation exists and is organised in the networks. To this end, Twitter communities were analysed in a sample of 41,118 tweets using Social Network Analysis techniques and content was analysed using Critical Discourse Analysis and framing theory in a sample of more than 1000 tweets. The results indicate the importance of the media in structuring the debate, the use of polarisation and technocensorship techniques, such as the use of bots, and the use of different discursive strategies on the network: disinformation and propaganda, cyber-violence and post-truth emotional discourse.
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