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INVESTIGACIONES FEMINISTAS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 385-398Publisher
UNIV COMPLUTENSE MADRID, SERVICIO PUBLICACIONES
DOI: 10.5209/infe.66501
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Digital activism; feminist; victim; gender-based violence; ethical testimony; post-truth; Twitter; hashtag feminism
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Online misogyny has caused feminist activism in Spain to compete for discursive space on social media. The dispute over virtual space for the victims of gender-based violence entails a struggle for testifying against such violence, which is, in turn, polarized by the rhetoric of post-truth. Utilizing the operationalization of the ethical testimony, we propose an analytical mode to delve into the discursive construction of the hashtags #YoSiTeCreo (I believe you) and #YoNoTeCreo (I don't believe you) as a response to the trial and sentencing of the self-styled Manada (Wolfpack). We conclude that following the analytical mode of the ethical witnessing the political aspect of the act of giving testimony, and that of receiving it, is activated through the feminist digital practices. Through mediated feminist digital communities of hashtag feminism (Khoja-Moolji, 2015), the hashtag #YoSiTeCreo sparked a political response from the public. Onban the other hand the hashtag #YoNoTeCreo acts as an example of agentive victimhood (Banet-Weiser, in press) making, through visibility, affect and spectacularization, individual demands equal to collective struggles.
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