Building the feminist’s protest in hashtags: approaching from Social Network Analysis

Authors

  • Daniela Carolina Esquivel Domínguez UNAM

Abstract

This paper establishes guidelines to identify the development of international feminist’s protests, oriented towards risins awareness about different types of violence against women, tolded through the experience, via hashtags on Twitter. The documentation of the hashtags that turnedinto national and international Trending Topic, and its impact on social daily life between 2009 and 2019, were used to build up a network using co-words analysis and the structure was define by Kamada Kawai. This network allows to identify three main topics of the feminist agenda on social networks: sexual violence, reproductive rights and women’s labor rights. This mapping acknowledges an articulated cognitive structure.

Keywords:

Social network analysis, co-word analysis, violence against women, feminist analysis, experience

Author Biography

Daniela Carolina Esquivel Domínguez, UNAM

Estudiante de Posgrado (Maestría en Comunicación. Posgrado de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales UNAM)