Transphobic Discourses on Sociodigital Networks: An Analysis of Comments in Facebook Groups

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A través de etnografía una digital y un análisis multimodal del discurso se identificaron en grupos latinoamericanos de Facebook las formas en las que se expresan discursos transfóbicos en las modalidades verbales y no verbales de posts y memes en redes sociodigitales, que sirvan para dar cuenta de las tramas comunes presentes en el lenguaje peyorativo. Los datos mostraron la presencia de discursos transfóbicos en comentarios y memes los cuales se organizaron como estereotipos y prejuicios a partir de las posturas de los interlocutores. Los datos permitieron formular cinco registros que sirven para analizar la transfobia expresada en redes sociodigitales, los cuales organizaron el discurso como deshumanizante, biologicista, psicologista, cientificista y paternalista. Se concluyó que en comunidades virtuales existe un rechazo hacia las personas trans que se expresa por medio del uso de lenguaje peyorativo en sus modalidades verbal y no verbal, mismo que configura discursos de odio en diferentes niveles.Through digital ethnography and multimodal discourse analysis, we identified in Latin American Facebook groups the ways in which transphobic discourses are expressed in the verbal and non-verbal modalities of posts and memes in sociodigital networks, which serve to account for the common ways of presentation in pejorative language. The data showed the presence of transphobic discourse in comments and memes, which were organized as stereotypes and prejudices based on the positions of the interlocutors. The data allowed for the formulation of five registers to analyze transphobia expressed on sociodigital networks, organizing discourse as dehumanizing, biologistic, psychological, scientistic, and paternalistic. It was concluded that in virtual communities, there is a rejection towards trans individuals expressed through the use of pejorative language in both verbal and non-verbal modalities, shaping hate speech at different levels.&nbsp

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This paper was published in Revistes UdG (Universidad de Girona).

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