A hybrid methodology for the analysis of digital discourse. The case of “democracy” on Twitter
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The study of the language used on the Internet requires important methodological changes. This article shows the usefulness of integrating quantitative strategies in a traditionally qualitative field: Critical Discourse Analysis. We do it by analysing the term “democracy” as used in the Twitter accounts of the main political parties of Spain. We describe how each party understands this concept taking as a starting point the co-occurrences of this word with other concepts in the corpus.
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