At the roots of media cultures. Social movements producing knowledge about media as discriminatory workspaces

Pavan, Elena; Mainardi, Arianna

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2019.1631372

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“…Also, the digital environment reproduces those gender orders that characterise offline life. Misogyny, sexism and heteropatriarchy resurface online (on a different level, that is, as artefact, in practices and in culture), creating an environment that often risks excluding LGBTQ people and women (Pavan and Mainardi 2019).…”

Section: Gender and Techmentioning

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Mediated friendship

Mainardi

2020

Oñati Socio-Legal Series

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This article engages with the current debate on feminisms and digital media by looking at the tension between individualism and collective action. Drawing on an empirical research project involving girls, carried out in Italy and focusing on female processes of subjectivation in a postfeminist new media context, it will discuss constraints and opportunities shaped by the everyday use of social media. The article places itself in the latest trend of cyberfeminist studies, by analysing friendship relationships developed among girls in and through digital media. It also looks at how the mediated nature of social network sites offers room for the building of alliances among girls, and how this challenges online and offline gender norms. In doing so, the article reflects on the way female relationships change and are reworked in digital culture, thus giving a new meaning to the feminist concept of sisterhood. Este artículo se ocupa del debate actual sobre feminismos y medios digitales, con una mirada a la tensión existente entre el individualismo y la acción colectiva. Partiendo de un proyecto de investigación empírica con chicas, realizado en Italia y enfocado en los procesos femeninos de subjetivación en un contexto posfeminista de nuevos medios, el artículo trata sobre las limitaciones y las oportunidades modeladas por el uso cotidiano de medios sociales. El artículo se sitúa en la reciente ola de estudios ciberfeministas, analizando las relaciones de amistad entre chicas a través de medios digiales. También se ocupa de cómo la naturaleza mediada de las redes sociales digitales ofrece un espacio para las alianzas entre chicas, y de cómo esto desafía las normas de género en Internet y fuera de él. Al hacerlo, el artículo reflexiona sobre cómo las relaciones entre mujeres cambian y se transforman en la cultura digital, dando un nuevo significado al concepto feminista de sororidad.

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Knowledge in Social Movements

Pavan¹,

Porta²

2022

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements

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A crucial and yet often overlooked component of social movements' potential to produce change consists of their capability to create and disseminate alternative knowledge about the world they live in and how to transform it. While social movement studies have mainly focused on what happens in the streets, a large part of movement activities aims at collecting and processing information, elaborating new proposals, and spreading alternative knowledge, at times through innovative critical pedagogy. Typically, social movement studies tend to find sources of collectively induced change by looking at how individuals' biographies are affected by their participation in collective endeavors; at how the overall political environment and, particularly, policy outcomes are modified in conjunction with the intervention of collective actors; but also at how widespread cultural norms, values, and systems of beliefs shift as a result of collective mobilization. To be sure, social movements themselves are often approached, albeit not always explicitly, as resilient collectivities in fieri – that is, as sociopolitical processes that unfold continuously by innovating their collective identities, action strategies, and organizational forms to respond to the ever‐evolving nature of political and social contexts. Although a multiplicity of factors have been outlined to disentangle the modes in which social movements contribute to generate internal and/or external change, only recently have collective actors' transformative potential been explicitly tied to the systematic and constant knowledge work they engage in.

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LGBTQIOnline

Mainardi¹,

Pavan²

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication

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The entry examines some crucial ways in which LGBTQI people take advantage of pervasive digital communications affordances in their struggle for achieving full recognition and their rights in the digital as well as in the offline social spaces. This entry proposes that an understanding of the possibilities and the challenges offered by digital media to the LGBTQI community can be reached by considering both the material and the social aspects that structure the multifaceted relationship between LGBTQI people and digital media. The entry provides an introductory overview on these two orders of aspects, beginning from material ones—that is, by accounting for the (still few) reflections on the role that digital media affordances and working logics play in LGBTQI life. The entry then proceeds by focusing on the social aspects by looking at three broad sets of media practices that are particularly relevant to understand the potentialities and the risks that digital media bring forward to the LGBTQI world: representation and identity construction, community building, and activism.

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At the roots of media cultures. Social movements producing knowledge about media as discriminatory workspaces

Abstract: At the roots of media cultures. Social movements producing knowledge about media as discriminatory workspacesThe Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available on Information, Communication and Society,

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