Hate Speech, Emotions, and Gender Identities: A Study of Social Narratives on Twitter with Trainee Teachers

Delfín Ortega-Sánchez, Joan Pagès Blanch, Jaime Ibáñez Quintana, Esther Sanz de la Cal and Raquel de la Fuente-Anuncibay
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Delfín Ortega-Sánchez: Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Joan Pagès Blanch: Department of Language, Literature and Social Science Education, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Jaime Ibáñez Quintana: Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Esther Sanz de la Cal: Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Raquel de la Fuente-Anuncibay: Department of Education Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-18

Abstract: The objective of this study is, on the one hand, to analyse emotional responses to the construction of hate speech relating to gender identity on Twitter. On the other hand, the objective is to evaluate the capabilities of trainee primary education teachers at constructing alternative counter-narratives to this socially alive issue, surrounding the approval of the Ley de Identidad de Género [Gender Identity Law] in Chile, in 2018. With this two-fold objective in mind, quantitative, descriptive, and inferential analysis and qualitative analysis techniques are all applied. The results inform us of the influence of socially constructed emotions and feelings that are expressed in social narratives. However, the narratives of the participants neither appeared to reach satisfactory levels of reflection on the social issues that stirred their own emotional responses, nor on the conflict between reason and the value judgements that they expressed in the digital debate (counter-narratives). These results point to the need to consider both emotions and feelings, as categories of social analysis, and to reflect on their forms of expression within the framework of education for inclusive democratic citizenship.

Keywords: hate speech; gender identities; social narratives; social education; trainee teachers; twitter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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