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Digital content framing for unionism: a conceptual model on the influence of context on Chilean labour confederations’ social media content
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Digital content framing for unionism: a conceptual model on the influence of context on Chilean labour confederations’ social media content

Daina Bellido de Luna Mayea, Carolina Martínez Troncoso and David Diaz
International labour review, Vol.165, number 2 (2), pp.1-20
2026

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trade union social media platforms Chile
In this article, we explore how labour organizations use and leverage social media for their agenda-setting in a decentralized labour context (Chile). We combine two studies – a topic-modelling algorithm (BERTopic) analysing the digital activity of five labour confederations on a specific social media platform (N = 14,863 tweets), together with five in-depth interviews with leaders and communication officers from these confederations – to explore how they prioritize messages and frame their content to advance their agendas. We also develop a conceptual model to address the influence of context on the choice of social media content.
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