Networked Feminist Movement: “Lugar de Mulher” blog and Facebook page analysis

Abstract

The concept of Network Social Movements explains the appropriation of communication and information technologies by social movements. The digital network is a space to spread information, to the collective construction of vindications and even manifestation. This paper aims to understand and analyse how the feminist movement uses theses communication tools. To achieve that, we used the quantity methodology to analyse the blog “Lugar de Mulher” and the Facebbok page of this blog during five days. Our results showed that, even though this website could be used as a digital tool for the movement, the blog “Luger de Mulher” does not construct actions in the offline space and has limited interactions with users that participate in the debate the occurs in the digital space.

Keywords

• Networked Social Movements
• Social Movements
• Feminismt Movemen
• Feminist Movement
• “Lugar de Mulher”