A Techno-Discursive Analysis of Manifestations Surrounding Diego Maradona’s Death: Methodologies for Delimiting Discursive Regions on Twitter

ABSTRACT In this article, we propose strategies for capturing polemical regions in a corpus of posts from Twitter, setting out from a theoretical framework that emphasises a dialogic perspective. Based on these strategies, we provide entry points for analysing the materiality of the techno-discursive universe that circulates in digital environments. By producing this research corpus, we acquired a clearer understanding of elements that compose discursive images surrounding Diego Maradona in circulation on Twitter following the player’s death. Towards this aim, we formulated and critically considered techniques for extracting and producing a digital research corpus by delimiting a discursive space on Twitter surrounding Maradona’s death. The results obtained pertain to the conditions for use of these platforms by discourse analysts, the cartography of the regions configured in this space and the clashes that become consolidated within them.

摘要 本文基于强调对话视角的理论框架，提出了用于捕获推特（Twitter）帖子语料库中论争性区域的研究策略。基于上述策略，本文为分析数字环境中流转的技术-话语场域的物质性提供了研究切入点。通过构建本次研究语料库，我们得以更清晰地认知球员迭戈·马拉多纳（Diego Maradona）逝世后，推特平台上流转的围绕其形象的话语构成要素。为达成上述研究目标，本文通过划定推特平台上围绕马拉多纳逝世的话语空间，构建并批判性评估了用于提取与生成数字化研究语料库的技术方法。本研究所得结果涵盖话语分析者使用此类平台的适用条件、该话语空间内构建出的论争区域图谱，以及这些区域内部固化形成的话语交锋。