Los memes en el activismo feminista en la Red. #ViajoSola como ejemplo de movilización transnacional

Piñeiro-Otero, Teresa; Martínez-Rolán, Xabier

doi:10.7764/cdi.39.1040

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“…campaign that mimicked those of Shell Oil (Ross and Rivers, 2019: 976). The impact of memes has been recognised as a specific digital form of communication and is currently present in so many debates and mobilizations (Costanza-Chock, 2012;Piñeiro-Otero and Martínez-Rolán, 2016). Some authors claim that if political posters were used to support resistance, nowadays memes can fulfil that function in a digital environment, graphically materialising ideas shared by the community (Metahaven, 2014).…”

Section: Cartoons and Memes As Elements For Social Criticismmentioning

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Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

Martorell

Roig

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This article studies social perceptions of gig work and its conditions through the lenses of visual humour created and shared in digital environments. Food delivery services have thrived in cities, and riders – gig workers associated with such services – have become popular urban figures, easily recognisable through light means of transport and backpacks. These iconic elements have spread to forms of visual humour like memes and cartoons in social media. We aim to analyse the depiction of food delivery services and riders through graphic humour in digital environments, and its role as critical stances of gig work conditions. We draw from the literature on gig work, as well as critical humour in the workplace, approaching the phenomenon from the perspective of critical visualities and the memetic qualities of digital visual humour. Thus, we have conducted an analysis of rider memes, and carried out a focus group with Spanish cartoonists to better understand each form. From our analysis, we have observed that a) memes showcase less explicit critical stances but reflect a shared understanding of the hurdles associated to rider work; b) cartoons place riders in a contextualised, wider critique of platform economy and capitalism; c) while most graphic humour on riders takes an external, observational position, there is also an ‘inner look’ to the rider work, emphasising the promises and deceptions associated with the gig economy.

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Section: Cartoons and Memes As Elements For Social Criticismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

Martorell

Roig

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…Esta nueva tendencia de las mujeres a compartir información libremente responde a muchos factores entre los que se destacan los nuevos movimientos sociales como, por ejemplo, #NiUnaMenos en el año 2017. Las mujeres vieron que ser identificables y localizables puede ser una buena herramienta de protección y apoyo ante un mundo que puede resultar muchas veces peligroso para ellas, y esto potencia su identidad y posición ideológica de igualdad ante la sociedad (Piñeiro et al, 2016;Rosales et al, 2018;Sádaba et al, 2019;Trott, 2020).…”

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Caracterización de la identidad digital en estudiantes chilenos de ciencias de la salud. Un estudio de caso según género

Hernández-Orellana

Garcias

Roco-Videla³

2022

Interdisciplinaria. Revista De Psicología Y Ciencias Afines

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“…The Internet has received significant attention in analyzing social movements since its expansion in the 1990s, so that the feminist movement has been the object of research on the repertoires of action in social networks. Regarding Twitter, activists have used it with different objectives: to protest against regulations and political institutions from a gender perspective (Eslen-Ziya, 2013;Fischer, 2016); to denounce sexist behavior and toxic masculinity (Kay and Banet-Weiser, 2019); to mobilize against various forms of gender violence (Losh, 2014); to articulate an intersectional feminist imaginary (Kuo, 2018); or to oppose hegemonic sexist discourse (Piñeiro-Otero and Martínez-Rolán, 2016;Rentschler, 2015), mainly when it is disseminated through the media (Clark 2016;Harp, Grimm, and Loke, 2018). However, the authors agree that more empirical research is needed to examine both the possibilities and limitations of these Twitter actions that some have called "hashtag feminism" (Linabary, Corple, and Cooky, 2020).…”

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Towards a Critical Understanding of Social Networks for the Feminist Movement: Twitter and the Women’s Strike

2021

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The intensive use of digital platforms by the feminist movement has been identified as one of its main characteristics. Numerous studies address the tactical use of social networks by this movement, especially on 8 March in Spain. This paper studies the action repertoires of different actors who participated in the 2019 Women’s Strike conversation, including automated accounts. Empirical results demonstrate that Twitter is not an exclusive field for the feminist movement. Along with activists who promoted and informed the Women’s Strike, political parties proposed concrete policy measures, and conservative factions criticized the movement calling for demobilization. In this sense, for the first time in these M8 mobilizations, bots participated in this polarisation of the debate through partisan hashtags and the dissemination of fake news. The investigation thus confirms that automation techniques and contradictory flows of power are critical elements to understand the real potential of social networks for feminist social change.

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Los memes en el activismo feminista en la Red. #ViajoSola como ejemplo de movilización transnacional

Abstract: Los memes en el activismo feminista en la Red. #ViajoSola como ejemplo de movilización transnacional

Cited by 27 publications

References 18 publications

Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

Gig workers, critical visuality and humour in a digital context: The graphic representation of riders as a form of social criticism

Caracterización de la identidad digital en estudiantes chilenos de ciencias de la salud. Un estudio de caso según género

Towards a Critical Understanding of Social Networks for the Feminist Movement: Twitter and the Women’s Strike

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