Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
DDC:
305.42
Abstract:
Abstract: In this article, we explore the collective identity of feminist activists as expressed on Twitter in the context of "Day Without A Woman". We conceptualize collective feminist identity by drawing upon literature on identity, feminism, and social movements. We expected to find a politically-defined group boundary around supporters of "Day Without A Woman". Using the online tool Netlytic, we collected tweets posted from accounts in Washington D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles. In a preliminary step, we performed a word count analysis and coded frequent words within the collected tweets into categories of meaning. Based on these categories, we drew a sub-sample of tweets, which we scrutinized in-depth using discourse analysis. Through this qualitative analysis, we show that the group boundary of the supporters of "Day Without A Woman" is defined by the common denominator of their negative relation to Donald TRUMP. While the supporters stress the relevance of feminist claims, barrie
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In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research ; 20 (2019) 2 ; 33
DOI:
10.17169/fqs-20.2.3229
URN:
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62833-2
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62833-2
URL:
https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.2.3229
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