TY - CHAP
T1 - A name rightly given? The use, abuse, and adoption of the term ‘cybernat’ during the Scottish referendum debate
AU - Mackay, Rowan R.
PY - 2018/11/5
Y1 - 2018/11/5
N2 - On September 18, 2014, voters in Scotland were asked in a referendum, “Should Scotland be an independent country?”, ending a hard and often bitterly fought campaign between those who would vote “Yes” and those who would vote “No”. During the campaign, the term “cybernat” was used, in the main pejoratively, to describe individuals on the Nationalist side of the debate who were vociferous—that much can be agreed upon; whether the term cybernat was only used to describe bullying Internet “trolls”, or whether it was used to denigrate outspoken and passionate political debate, has not got the same consensus. In this chapter, with data from Twitter, I discuss the term and its (de)legitimizing force.
AB - On September 18, 2014, voters in Scotland were asked in a referendum, “Should Scotland be an independent country?”, ending a hard and often bitterly fought campaign between those who would vote “Yes” and those who would vote “No”. During the campaign, the term “cybernat” was used, in the main pejoratively, to describe individuals on the Nationalist side of the debate who were vociferous—that much can be agreed upon; whether the term cybernat was only used to describe bullying Internet “trolls”, or whether it was used to denigrate outspoken and passionate political debate, has not got the same consensus. In this chapter, with data from Twitter, I discuss the term and its (de)legitimizing force.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Discourses-of-DeLegitimization-Participatory-Culture-in-Digital-Contexts/Ross-Rivers/p/book/9780367584146
U2 - 10.4324/9781351263887
DO - 10.4324/9781351263887
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781138578753
SN - 9780367584146
T3 - Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
SP - 55
EP - 82
BT - Discourses of (De)Legitimization
A2 - Ross, Andrew S.
A2 - Rivers, Damian J.
PB - Routledge
CY - New York
ER -