Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age - Sheena Gardner
3. Digital Citizenship: Social Actors in Blog Posts to Chilean Online News Portals
Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age - Sheena Gardner
Lesmer Montecino [+]
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Lésmer Montecino works in the Ponti cia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. His areas of research are pragmatics and discourse analy- sis. He has recently concluded a three-year research project funded by the Chilean Government. Professor Montecino is currently working on interrelational management and symbolic violence on Chilean radio programmes mediated by YouTube.
María Cristina Arancibia [+]
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
María Cristina Arancibia works in the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her research areas are discourse analysis and the development of comprehension and production skills in second language. She is currently working on an investigation about the representation of anger in websites created to condemn corruption in Chile.
Description
In the last ten years, there has been a growing debate over the role that public digital media have had in social change, particularly in the creation of a public digital sphere where issues affecting local political organizations and the functioning of institutions is openly debated by citizens. The aim of this paper is to reflect upon the role of digital citizenry in the construction of the identity of social actors present in the blog comments of online newspapers that debate over cases of corruption dealt with in editorials and opinion columns of Chilean cyber newspapers.