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FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2023.2285713
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Body-territory; feminist internet; feminist media studies; Latin America; communitarian feminism
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This article analyzes how feminist collectives approach the internet as a feminist territory to defend it from violence. It argues that the internet can be conceptualized as a territory and presents evidence of current feminist strategies for defending digital territory. The article contributes to the theorization of the internet as a territory and expands the analysis of power relations and inequalities in feminist media studies.
This article analyzes how feminist collectives approach the internet as a feminist territory to defend it from violence. Feminist media studies have recently focused on bodies as sites of oppression and resistance in our digital society. In this article, however, I contend that violence is not limited to bodies; it extends to the territories that these bodies occupy. I demonstrate the importance of territory as a political place of feminist enunciation,1 from which new strategies against digital violence emerge. I argue that it is possible to conceptualize the internet as a territory through communitarian feminism, a theoretical and political contribution to feminism from Indigenous women in Latin America. I further claim that the body-territory category proposed by communitarian feminism can help feminist media studies broaden its analysis of how power relations around violence, data extractivism, and inequalities manifest. The article is based on a digital ethnography of four social collectives enunciating a feminist internet in Mexico. The contribution of this article is twofold. First, it contributes to the theorization of the internet as a territory. Second, it presents evidence of current feminist strategies for defending digital territory.
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