Ser y hacer un lugar seguro en Internet. Prácticas comunicativas digitales de jóvenes  LGBT+ mexicanos ante discursos de odio

This research analyses the digital communication practices that LGBT+ youth develop to confront hate speech on the Internet. To achieve this, a theoretical framework based on the communication perspective, which problematises the subject-technology relationship, is constructed. The qualitative methodology with a descriptive scope is synthesised through the method of systematising experience. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 young Mexicans who dissent from the cisheteronorm to analyse the strategies they employ in response to hate speech on the Internet. The results indicate that LGBT+ youth recalibrate the symbolic impact of hate speech on the Internet due to the subjective technological distance between themselves and the anonymous users who promote it. Consequently, LGBT+ youth leverage the interaction logic of socio-digital platforms to enhance their control over their digital environment and the groups in which they participate in order to render and maintain these spaces as safe spaces.