Archiving affect and activism: Hashtag feminism and structures of feeling in Women's March tweets

McDuffie, Kristi; Ames, Melissa

doi:10.5210/fm.v26i2.10317

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“…Although I did not examine social media postings by the march participants, there is little reason to believe the postings will diverge substantially from the march organizers' and participants' views communicated in the news media and shared on the march's website, the mission statement of the march, and two books about the march, one offering research insights from the march participants and another an account by the main organizers of the march. Indeed, in their analysis of 2645 tweets bearing the hashtag of #WhyIMarch on the day of the march, McDuffie and Ames (2021) found that the audience for these tweets appears to have been people similar to the marchers. The authors found that the main rhetorical strategies used in the tweets were "dedications" (marching for someone), "personal narratives," "first person plural pronouns" (used to invoke political allies, among other purposes), and humor.…”

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#MassProtests: The Abjuring of the <i>Other</i> and Lessons from Gandhi

Dave

2021

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et al (2020), social scientists and management scholars, drew attention to the problem of "othering" of political opponents, a problem the authors stated contributes to "political sectarianism" (p. 533). They defined "othering" as "the tendency to view opposing partisans as essentially different or alien to oneself." Connecting this problem to digital media, the authors stated that "in recent years, social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have played an influential role in political discourse, intensifying political sectarianism" (p. 534). The authors argued that this "out-party hate" or "holding [of] opposing partisans in contempt on the basis of their identity alone precludes innovative cross party solutions and mutually beneficial compromises" (p. 533). Giving an example of the ongoing pandemic, the authors stated that the "political sectarianism" turned "mask-wearing [into] a partisan symbol" (p. 535). The authors urged "interventions" to counter political sectarianism because it "poses a threat to democracy" (pp. 533-535).South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han's admonitions about the dangers of digital networking merit review in this case. Admittedly, Han's views are one-sided, for digital media have been and are used for a number of positive things (

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#MassProtests: The Abjuring of the <i>Other</i> and Lessons from Gandhi

Dave

2021

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“…The first three are high-reach platforms for users in Latin America (Carrasquilla, 2019;Statista, 2021;Vicinitas, 2018), while the latter is on the rise (Ceurvels and Williamson, 2020). Twitter and YouTube have been studied concerning digital activism and feminism (McDuffie and Ames, 2021;Núñez-Puente et al, 2015), while Instagram is only just beginning to be studied in this regard (Özşenler, 2021;Tarullo and García, 2020). There is no previous literature on Latin American feminism and TikTok due to its novelty and recent popularity (Abidin, 2021).…”

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Vernacular Visibility and Algorithmic Resistance in the Public Expression of Latin American Feminism

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Castillo-González

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Media International Australia

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This article seeks to understand how Latin American feminist public expression has gained algorithm-mediated visibility on social media. To this end, a cross-platform analysis was conducted for two issues: the legalisation of abortion in Argentina and the struggle to eliminate violence against women. The data were collected on four platforms: Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube through the representative hashtags, ‘#abortolegal2020’, ‘#25N’, and ‘#niunamenos’. Digital critical methods were employed to gather data and approach high-visibility users, visual messages, and hashtagging practices. The findings reveal two configurations of algorithmic mediated visibility, formed by assemblages of actors, formats, and knowledge: platform vernaculars and algorithmic resistance. Both result in a mutual shaping between platforms, seeking to impose a quantitative logic of visibility, and feminist actors, using the tactics of algorithmic resistance to give visibility to the content, aesthetics, and resignified messages about their struggles.

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“…El tuit con más interacciones (Figura 2) es una publicación motivacional que llama a la participación social (McDuffie & Ames, 2021). De esta publicación se pueden inferir tres usos que le ha dado la Campaña a la etiqueta #28S: divulgación de la convocatoria, organización de la acción y presión a los tomadores de decisión.…”

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Aborto y participación política en la etiqueta #28S en Argentina

Acosta

2022

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El feminismo es uno de los movimientos sociales que más relevancia ha cobrado en el contexto mundial en los últimos tiempos. Con una larga historia de lucha, las mujeres son portadoras de demandas que se vertebran en disputas articuladas tanto en premisas de reconocimiento como de redistribución. La participación de muchas mujeres jóvenes en las movilizaciones del #NiUnaMenos obligó al feminismo a apelar a otras formas de comunicación y servirse de las plataformas digitales para organizar la protesta social. Las redes sociales le han proporcionado al colectivo una plataforma para visibilizar sus reclamos y demandas globales. En el Día Internacional por el Aborto Seguro, la Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto legal, seguro y gratuito lanzó en Argentina la etiqueta #28S con el fin de presionar a los tomadores de decisión en la discusión formal sobre el aborto. La etiqueta arropó los sentires y opiniones de muchos/as ciudadanos/as preocupados/as por la problemática. Como en general ocurre con el activism hashtag los/las usuarios/as crearon un conjunto de narrativas de petición, demandas y protestas. El objetivo de la investigación es analizar la conversación digital en el hashtag para dar cuenta de la dinámica comunicacional de los/las usuarios/as que participaron de ella, describir sus interacciones e identificar sus narrativas. Además de la clásica revisión bibliográfica, la propuesta cuali-cuantitativa del estudio es exploratoria y descriptiva. Se aplica el método cuantitativo del análisis de contenido y el método cualitativo del análisis documental. Dentro de los principales resultados destaca que las cuentas más activas pertenecen a usuarios/as con poca cantidad de seguidores que escriben a título personal, los líderes de opinión crean los contenidos alrededor de los cuales se produce la interacción y en sus publicaciones los/las usuarios/as retoman los encuadres activados por la Campaña en sus documentos.

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Archiving affect and activism: Hashtag feminism and structures of feeling in Women's March tweets

Cited by 13 publications

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#MassProtests: The Abjuring of the <i>Other</i> and Lessons from Gandhi

#MassProtests: The Abjuring of the <i>Other</i> and Lessons from Gandhi

Vernacular Visibility and Algorithmic Resistance in the Public Expression of Latin American Feminism

Aborto y participación política en la etiqueta #28S en Argentina

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