Digital Prospects of the Contemporary Feminist Movement for Dialogue and International Mobilization: A Case Study of the 25 November Twitter Conversation

Abstract

The feminist movement is experiencing the rise of a new generation characterized by specific phenomena linked to technological progress, such as hashtivism, i.e., mobilization through social media. With the aim of contributing to extending our knowledge of the implications of Twitter for this as well as other social movements, this article examined eight of the most common Spanish- and English-language hashtags used to commemorate the 25 November 2018 event, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Employing big data analysis to study social and communications phenomena, the results offer a picture of contemporary feminism through the kind of international digital dialogue or conversation that it creates, as well as questioning Twitter’s validity in terms of cohesion when it comes to uniting forces in relation to one of the movement’s most urgent struggles: eliminating violence against women in all its forms.

Lo organizacional y comunicativo, en un colectivo de mujeres colombiano

“…Así, el valor del activismo on line en la promoción de solidaridad colectiva, recae en la eficacia para favorecer o reforzar la autonomía a nivel macro (independencia del movimiento con respecto a otros movimientos e influencias sociales, políticas, económicas) y a nivel micro (autonomía del movimiento), como sucedió con los movimientos #Yositecreo o el #8M han servido para poner fin a décadas de apatía participativa (Larrondo et al, 2021).…”

Networks and Stories. Analyzing the Transmission of the Feminist Intangible Cultural Heritage on Twitter

“…In the case of feminism, this has been recurrently expressed through the metaphor of "waves," about which several authors suggest that we are currently facing the fourth [87]. The role of hashtivism and, very particularly that which has been developed on Twitter, is becoming very important in the self-definition of fourth wave feminism, a constructor of new political subjects that pivot around particular campaigns or hashtags [88]. The fourth wave of feminism thus dialogues with analogical activists who have endowed them with a whole tradition of struggle and a not inconsiderable set of small victories that, taken together, have improved the living conditions of women in different parts of the world.…”

“…An analysis is carried out based on the analysis of the conversation in Spanish and English around the 2018 international day against violence against women on Twitter [88]. The most shared contents of each cluster of the network, both messages and images, are inspected and the levels of intercommunity homophily (i.e., to what extent nodes tend to establish links with those who are part of the same group or with those who are part of the other group) [91] are examined.…”

El neoconservadurismo religioso en Twitter: La campaña #ConMisHijosNoTeMetas y el discurso contra la igualdad de género

“…Los movimientos sociales digitales proveen un espacio en que las formas de organización y participación son más interactivas e inmediatas hacia sus receptores. Gracias a esta nueva forma de comunicación, las agrupaciones han venido organizándose dentro del espacio virtual para poder expresar sus ideas e influenciar a otros ciudadanos y acercarlos a su causa (Larrondo, Orbegozo y Morales, 2021). Los movimientos sociales han usado las redes sociales como herramienta movilizadora, de difusión y acción social (Bonsón, Perea y Bednárová, 2019;Said-Hung y Valencia, 2017).…”