Ultra-conservative discourse on the web
The case of the CitizenGo petition platform
Keywords:
ultra-conservative, cyber-activism, post-bureaucratic organizations, CitizenGoAbstract
The following article explores the activity developed by the online petition platform CitizenGo during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain. This digital platform was created to "defend and promote, in a useful and effective way, life, family and freedom" by means of petitions and online actions. Through the analysis of 19 campaigns deployed by this organization during the state of alarm (between the months of March and June 2020), the organisation's discourses are identified, as well as the strategies and resources used online. The final objective is to identify the features of the campaigns, as well as the narrative configurations of this association and to determine the pattern in the elaboration and dissemination of ultra-conservative narratives on the internet. In conclusion, we can extract how the coronavirus pandemic provided a discursive opportunity for CitizenGo to disseminate its agenda through strategies of polarisation and conflictive and antagonistic narratives of social reality.
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