#iamafeminist as the “mother tag”: feminist identification and activism against misogyny on Twitter in South Korea

Kim, Jinsook

doi:10.1080/14680777.2017.1283343

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“…A group of studies have used “hashtag ethnography” [ 32 ]—an ethnographic description of how hashtags have been used in social movements. They have investigated movements mainly concerned with race [ 32 , 33 ] and gender [ 34 , 35 , 36 ], as well as movements by students [ 37 ] and teachers [ 38 ].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

#Antivaccination on Instagram: A Computational Analysis of Hashtag Activism through Photos and Public Responses

Kim

Song

Lee

2020

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A dramatic increase has been registered in the number of social media posts in photo form as well as in hashtag activism. Hashtags, which manifest thoughts and feelings clearly and concisely, originated on Twitter, where the length of a post is limited; their use, however, has expanded into other social media services, including Instagram. Hashtags, which make it easy to find and express support for posts of interest, have been widely used for online activism, although they have been criticized for fostering confirmation bias. Moreover, hashtag activism in photo form has been relatively understudied. This research analyzed Instagram photos with antivaccination hashtags as an example of hashtag activism through photos. In addition, we examined how the photo features were related to public response, which was manifested via engagement and comment sentiment. The results suggest that the photos which were categorized into “text” took the largest share. It was also found that the major way of claiming was to imprint key messages that persuade people not to vaccinate with remarks from professionals on photos and provide a source of supporting information in the post text with hashtags of antivaccine intention. Various photo features showed associations with engagement and comment sentiment, but the directions of correlation were usually the opposite: these results suggest that engagement and comment sentiment are separate domains that reveal different public responses.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

#Antivaccination on Instagram: A Computational Analysis of Hashtag Activism through Photos and Public Responses

Kim

Song

Lee

2020

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“…Hashtag feminism is one of the centers of this new type of action by the current feminist movement. In the academic field, studies on the hashtags #YesAllWomen in the context of the United States (Rodino-Colocino, 2014;Thrift, 2014), #EverydaySexism in the United Kingdom (Eagle, 2015), #Iamafeminist in South Korea (Kim, 2017) or #Niunamenos en Iberoamérica (Giraldo-Luque et al, 2018) are clear examples of the interest in analyzing how they are shown and what impact these conversations have on social networks. In Spain, journalist Cristina Fallarás promoted in 2018 a similar initiative using the hashtag #cuéntalo, which was used by more than 40,000 women to report sexual aggression against them 1 .…”

Section: Cyberfeminismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the main aspects praised about hashtag feminism is the possibility of creating a community from the individual experiences and opinions of Twitter users (Zajc, 2013). It also facilitates intersectionality within the movement since it can create spaces where counterpublics can join forces (Kim, 2017;Loza, 2014). At the same time, social networks pose difficulties for the feminist movement, as well as for all social movements (Kay LeFebvre & Armstrong, 2018;Tufekci, 2013), relating to the architecture and ecology of these platforms.…”

Section: Cyberfeminismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discussion and mediation of social outrage on Twitter: The reaction to the judicial sentence of "La Manada"

Navarro¹,

Coromina²

2020

Communication & Society

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In recent years, digital feminism has been prominent in the international public sphere and the massive release of individual testimonies of violence against women has had an important presence on social media. In Spain, the reaction to the judicial sentence of the La Manada case, which only convicted the five men accused of abuse, rather than rape, provoked a public outrage that was negotiated on social networks and was later displayed in mass demonstrations across the country. The aim of this study is to analyze the reaction that took place on Twitter on the day of the ruling of the sentence (26 April 2018) and how the dominant frames were initiated and stabilized on Twitter. With a sample of almost 500.000 tweets, the posts achieving most retweets per hour and the most salient media objects (including hashtags, visual content and links) have been analyzed based on the framing theory. Media objects have been explored through flowcharts allowing the visualization of the evolution of the dominant messages. The results show a hegemonic conversation on Twitter against the ruling of the court with a high presence of feminist demands. Furthermore, the analysis of the evolution of the main frames shows that the different Twitter affordances allow rapidity in the negotiation of the dominant messages. This paper contributes to the understanding of the articulation of framing from a complex perspective including media objects such as images and URLs that broaden the layers of meaning of the Twitter discourse on collective actions.

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Section: Twitter Feminism and Reality Tvmentioning

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“…Over the last 20 years, feminist research has examined the relationships between gender, feminism and new media technologies, subjecting the apparently 'transformative potential' of online communication to close scrutiny (Kim, 2017;Orgad, 2005). Feminist scholarship has explored the construction and circulation of popular misogyny (Banet-Weiser and Miltner, 2016;Jane, 2014); the risks of speaking out as 'feminist' online (Cole, 2015), and how online spaces can afford the possibilities of feminist resistance, critique and collectivity (Keller, Mendes and Ringrose, 2018;Kim, 2017;Rentschler;. Within this context, forms of digital feminist activism have arguably fared better as examples of 'popular' feminism, and are often implicitly/ explicitly positioned as complicating the constructions of feminism typified by postfeminist, neoliberal discourses (Gill, 2016;Keller, Mendes and Ringrose, 2018;Kim, 2017;Rentschler, 2015).…”

Section: Twitter Feminism and Reality Tvmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘It’s what Emmeline Pankhurst would have wanted’:Celebrity Big Brother: Year of the Woman(2018, UK) and negotiations of popular feminism(s)

Holmes

Clayton

2018

Journal of Gender Studies

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Feminist scholarship has invested attention in popular culture as a terrain upon which understandings of feminism are circulated, contested and explored. This is particularly so in the contemporary moment in which feminism appears to have achieved a new ascendency. But whilst popular culture and feminism are recognised as inextricably enmeshed, there remains the implicit or explicit assumption in feminist scholarship that popular media culture could do 'better', and that there is a more 'authentic' form of feminism waiting to find representation. In response to this context, this article undertakes an analysis of Twitter responses to Celebrity Big Brother: Year of the Woman (2018) in order to explore the ways in which a popular media text provides an arena for the negotiation of popular feminism. Rather than positioning reality TV and celebrity culture as a site of 'ideological ruin' for feminism, this article explores how CBB is discussed in relation to feminism as popular television, and the ways in which this may offer affordances and limitations. The article concludes that feminist media scholars need to give due attention to the complexities of popular feminism as articulated by popular media culture.

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#iamafeminist as the “mother tag”: feminist identification and activism against misogyny on Twitter in South Korea

Cited by 70 publications

References 46 publications

#Antivaccination on Instagram: A Computational Analysis of Hashtag Activism through Photos and Public Responses

#Antivaccination on Instagram: A Computational Analysis of Hashtag Activism through Photos and Public Responses

Discussion and mediation of social outrage on Twitter: The reaction to the judicial sentence of "La Manada"

‘It’s what Emmeline Pankhurst would have wanted’:Celebrity Big Brother: Year of the Woman(2018, UK) and negotiations of popular feminism(s)

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