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I Correct or Canceling You: Political Correctness and Cancel Culture on Social Media – The Case of Twitter Communication in Italy

I Correct or Canceling You: Political Correctness and Cancel Culture on Social Media – The Case of Twitter Communication in Italy

Cristiano Felaco, Jacopo Nocerino, Jessica Parola, Roberta Tofani
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781799884736|ISBN10: 1799884732|EISBN13: 9781799884743
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch039
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Felaco, Cristiano, et al. "I Correct or Canceling You: Political Correctness and Cancel Culture on Social Media – The Case of Twitter Communication in Italy." Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, edited by Gabriella Punziano and Angela Delli Paoli, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 708-725. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch039

APA

Felaco, C., Nocerino, J., Parola, J., & Tofani, R. (2022). I Correct or Canceling You: Political Correctness and Cancel Culture on Social Media – The Case of Twitter Communication in Italy. In G. Punziano & A. Delli Paoli (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society (pp. 708-725). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch039

Chicago

Felaco, Cristiano, et al. "I Correct or Canceling You: Political Correctness and Cancel Culture on Social Media – The Case of Twitter Communication in Italy." In Handbook of Research on Advanced Research Methodologies for a Digital Society, edited by Gabriella Punziano and Angela Delli Paoli, 708-725. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8473-6.ch039

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Abstract

This contribution studies the debated terms “politically correct” and “cancel culture” on Twitter and in particular investigates the meaning that people give when they label something or someone as politically correct or indicate a case of cancel culture in the Italian context, where they are not yet widespread as they are in the USA and Britain. A textual analysis of a corpus of tweets selected through a set of hashtags was carried out to identify thematic clusters to understand features and meanings given to these expressions, along with their ways of using in the various situations and contexts. The main results show different meanings of the term, in the negative sense as a limitation of freedom of speech, and in a positive sense as the exclusion of some terms that may offend some people or groups. In this case, the meaning of a word is relative and depends on the situation and context in which it is used. Furthermore, the recourse in the discourses of cancel culture is only rhetorical; there are no actions of cancellation or boycott of someone or something.

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