Bibliographic citations
Paredes, M., (2021). El discurso de odio hacia la población venezolana en redes sociales. Un estudio comparativo en twitter entre Colombia, Perú y Chile [Universidad de Lima]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/14485
Paredes, M., El discurso de odio hacia la población venezolana en redes sociales. Un estudio comparativo en twitter entre Colombia, Perú y Chile []. PE: Universidad de Lima; 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12724/14485
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title = "El discurso de odio hacia la población venezolana en redes sociales. Un estudio comparativo en twitter entre Colombia, Perú y Chile",
author = "Paredes Terry, María Lucia",
publisher = "Universidad de Lima",
year = "2021"
}
Social media has allowed discourses based on hatred and prejudice to spread very quickly to a large audience, harming minorities and vulnerable human groups, such as the immigrant community. The Venezuelan migratory waves occurred at a time of political instability in their native country, forcing them to go in search of better opportunities, being among their destinations Colombia, Peru, and Chile. An exploratory search was made on Twitter between 2017 and 2021 to see how hate speech is presented on Twitter towards Venezuelan migrants in the three countries previously mentioned, prioritizing content that contained the term “veneco” and selecting thirty of the produced tweets to determine the dominant characteristics of the discourse through analysis and comparison, taking UN criteria as a guide. The verbal and non-verbal language of the publications was analyzed to determine the emotional factor that drove the publication of the message as well as its thematic focus. Finally, the components of the message were rated according to their intentionality. All this to characterize the types of hate speech, distinguishing xenophobic and discriminatory particularities, determine the theme and main emotion of the message produced by “hate users”, classify the verbal and non-verbal components of the speeches according to the user's intention and to identify similarities and differences of hate speech based on the nationality of the authors of the tweets. Hate speech is driven by feelings of hostility and is born from a insecurity, leading to fear and rejection of migrants, who are constantly put on the opposite side of “otherness” through the language used. Tweets demonstrate the concept of otherness when users contrast their identity with migrants and see them as another group in opposition to them. Tweets do not usually focus on an individual as the object of the villainizing action, but rather use the resource of generalization to attribute responsibility and blame for negative situations to all Venezuelan migrants. Within this category of tweets, it is very common to see the use of pejorative nouns to refer to migrants, being the one that is repeated several times the name “veneco”, a term that is colloquially considered as a slander and therefore an offense to the dignity of the individual. In all three countries, users speeches tend to carry a feeling of rejection in the face of what they perceive as an invasion of the “other” (Venezuelan), especially related to the field of security. In future works that follow this line, it would be interesting to be able to study the users who publish hateful messages to profile this type of individuals and, therefore, have a better understanding of why they publish these hateful speeches and what personally prompts them to do so.
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