#ILookLikeASurgeon: stance and engagement on Twitter/X for identity construction and community building

María José Luzón

doi:10.5209/clac.95615

#ILookLikeASurgeon: stance and engagement on Twitter/X for identity construction and community building

María José Luzón Universidad de Zaragoza https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0454-5457

Palabras clave: hashtag feminism, stance and engagement, engagementidentity, identity, multimodality

Agencias: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-105655RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033), Government of Aragon [project number H16_23].

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2026-05-18

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Luzón, M. J. (2026). #ILookLikeASurgeon: stance and engagement on Twitter/X for identity construction and community building. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 106, 267-279. https://doi.org/10.5209/clac.95615

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Vol. 106 (2026): Monográfico. Modelo de una edición crítica digital de la duodécima edición del Diccionario de la lengua castellana de la Real Academia Española (DRAE 1884), coordinado por Gloria Clavería (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Margarita Freixas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) y Esther Hernández (Instituto de Lengua, Literatura y Antropología, CSIC)

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