Hate Speech on Twitter: Vox in the Catalan Parliamentary Elections

The Spanish far-right Vox party ran for the first time as a candidate for the Catalan parliamentary elections in February 2021. This paper analyses the party's political discourse on Twitter during the Catalan parliamentary election campaign in order to assess whether the degree of dialectical...

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Published in:Journalism practice 2024-02, Vol.18 (2), p.374-395
Main Authors: Berdón Prieto, Pablo, Martín Jiménez, Virginia, Herrero Izquierdo, Jacobo, Reguero Sanz, Itziar
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