Journal
JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES
Volume 31, Issue 5, Pages 639-653Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2021.1881461
Keywords
Collective symbolic coping; digital activism; feminism; social mobilization; social psychology; trolling; twitter
Funding
- Basque Government by KideOn Research Group [IT1342-19]
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The study found that the 2018 strikes in Spain went through phases of awareness, divergence, and convergence, while the 2019 strikes faced a lot of trolling which hindered reaching a consensus on success. Additionally, the results showed there was no specific hashtag used in these strikes.
The first general women's strikes to demand gender equality in Spain took place on 8 March 2018 and 2019. Both calls were an amazing success, becoming world references for feminism. This research investigates how the strikes were dealt with through Twitter by a Collective Symbolic Coping (CSC) process. Discourses on Twitter were analysed on both years, 4,384 tweets were selected and their content was analysed by lexical analysis. The results from 2018 indicated the CSC phases of 1) awareness; 2) divergence, where feminist demands and the role of men in the strike were debated; and 3) convergence, where the success of the strike was highlighted. However, in 2019 the feminists on Twitter were forced to cope with a great deal of trolling against them. This trolling was maintained in the awareness and divergence phases, making it difficult to reach a convergent discourse regarding the success of the strike. Moreover, the results also demonstrated that there was no reference hashtag in the strikes. It is concluded that discourse on social networks has become a key factor in feminist social mobilizations and that this feminist digital activism will be critical in the continued dissemination of the claims for gender equality in Spain.
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