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In the last ten years, there has been a growing debate over the role that public digital media have had in social change, particularly in the creation of a public digital sphere where issues affecting local political organizations and the functioning of institutions is openly debated by citizens. The aim of this paper is to reflect upon the role of digital citizenry in the construction of the identity of social actors present in the blog comments of online newspapers that debate over cases of corruption dealt with in editorials and opinion columns of Chilean cyber newspapers.