Who Benefits When Discourse Gets Democratised? Analysing a Twitter Corpus around the British Benefits Street Debate

Abstract

… Way too easy to bash benefit claimants but cosy up to tax dodgers who cheat UK out of many billions. Shame on this govt! … Finally, the keyword tax (868 cases) was part of the rich get richer discourse, with frequent references to tax evasion (66), tax avoidance (95) and tax …