Communication and activist literacy for social change in feminist movements

Farné, Alessandra; Cerqueira, Carla Preciosa Braga; Aldás, Eloísa Nos

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“…For example, Fernádez-Romero and Sánchez-Duarte (2019) analyzed the resources utilized for disseminating and communicating the strike on Facebook at both national and regional levels. Farné et al (2022) examined the construction of the strike through the websites of organizing collectives in a comparative perspective between Portugal and Spain, highlighting that "the current repertoire of feminist actions occurs in a scenario characterized by the widespread use of digital communication" (p. 311).…”

Section: Women's Strike: Following the 8m Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating through Cyberfeminism: Communication Strategies for the Construction of the International Feminist Strike in Portugal

Lamartine,

Cerqueira

2023

Social Sciences

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Despite the considerable attention given to how mainstream media portrays feminism and social movements, there remains a notable research gap regarding the exploration of how these movements themselves engage in internal articulation and employ communication strategies to connect with their publics. To examine communications practices of cyberfeminists within the fourth wave of feminism and the 8M movement (feminist strike), this study analyzes the communication platforms utilized by Rede 8 de Março, which mobilizes the strike in Portugal in three dimensions: (1) institutional and internal communication; (2) content production for online dissemination on digital platforms; and (3) mobilization strategies and action repertoires. Specifically, we focus on the years 2020 and 2021, considering the pandemic context, using a combination of netnography and semi-structured interviews with organizing activists. Our findings indicate a significant rise in Instagram’s platform utilization and exploration, concomitant with the establishment of WhatsApp as a central tool for both organizational and internal communication. These observations enhance our scholarly grasp of the intricate communication dynamics inherent in these organizational contexts and feminist movements, thereby offering significant contributions to our understanding of its operational mechanisms.

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Section: Women's Strike: Following the 8m Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating through Cyberfeminism: Communication Strategies for the Construction of the International Feminist Strike in Portugal

Lamartine,

Cerqueira

2023

Social Sciences

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Subversive Recipes for Communication for Development and Social Change in Times of Digital Capitalism

Noske-Turner,

Sivaram,

Kalley

et al. 2024

Social Sciences

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The era of digital capitalism poses conundrums for communication for development and social change scholarship and practice. On one hand, mainstream social media platforms are an increasingly ubiquitous element of the everyday media practices of growing portions of the global population. On the other, the profit-driven architectures can make these hostile spaces for progressive social change dialogues. While a burgeoning literature exists on the uses of social media as part of hashtag-activism and social movements, much less critical consideration has been given to NGOs’ and civil society organizations’ uses of capitalist-driven social media platforms in their development and social change efforts, and the challenges and compromises they navigate in this, consciously or not. This paper argues that meaningful uses of social media platforms for social change requires cultivating a hacker mindset in order to find tactics to subvert, resist, and appropriate platform logics, combined with an ecological sensibility to understanding media and communication. This paper analyzes how metaphors, specifically of a recipe, can offer a productive, praxis-oriented framework for fostering these sensibilities. The paper draws on insights from workshops with IT for Change, a civil society organization in India, which is both a leader in critiquing the political and economic power of Big Tech especially in the Global South, and beginning to use Instagram for its work on adolescent empowerment.

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Communication and activist literacy for social change in feminist movements

Cited by 2 publications

References 29 publications

Communicating through Cyberfeminism: Communication Strategies for the Construction of the International Feminist Strike in Portugal

Communicating through Cyberfeminism: Communication Strategies for the Construction of the International Feminist Strike in Portugal

Subversive Recipes for Communication for Development and Social Change in Times of Digital Capitalism

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