Twitter and the politics of representation in South Africa and Zimbabwe’s xenophobic narratives during the covid-19 pandemic

The article analyses xenophobic narratives on Twitter in South Africa and Zimbabwe during the Covid-19 pandemic from March 2020 to July 2021. The study uncovers the politics of representation through discourse analysis of purposively sampled tweets. The article argues that xenophobic views perpetua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elizabeth Hove
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2022-11-01
Series:Acta Academica
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Online Access:http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/5580