La Centralidad temática de la movilización #niunamenos en twitter

Translated title of the contribution: Thematic centrality on Twitter: The case of #NiUnaMenos mobilisation

Santiago Giraldo-Luque, Núria Fernández-García, José Cristian Pérez-Arce

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Abstract

Despite democratizing discourse using new technologies, different studies have shown the internet and social media have limits in the public sphere when it comes to developing identities or long term collective actions. This paper analyzes the thematic centrality and participation in the hashtag #NiUnaMenos, which was part of a collective demonstration carried out in November 2016. Using screen-scraping, an analysis of 118,974 tweets was conducted. This analysis revealed Twitter can be used as a diffusion tool and a place of collective action against gender violence. However, Twitter cannot be considered a platform for building a social consensus or for changing preconceived ideas. This article concludes that Twitter can be used to expand a specific social protest event -a demonstration- through the thematic positioning of terms related to that event. Nevertheless, Twitter is not a useful tool for discussing or dismanteling the patriarchy and sexism.

Translated title of the contributionThematic centrality on Twitter: The case of #NiUnaMenos mobilisation
Original languageSpanish
Pages (from-to)96-105
Number of pages10
JournalProfesional de la Informacion
Volume27
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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