Nayana Kirasur

Understanding the Prevalence of Caste: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Caste-based Marginalization on X

Despite decades of anti-caste efforts, sociocultural practices that marginalize lower-caste groups in India remain prevalent and have even proliferated with the use of social media. This paper examines how groups engaged in caste-based discrimination leverage platform affordances of the social media site X (formerly Tw…