Discursive activism in the Russian feminist hashtag campaign

The #ItIsNotAReasonToKill case

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12977985
AutoresElena Arbatskaya (0000-0002-7599-6688, University of Tyumen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen11
Número3
Páginas253-273
Fecha de publicación2019-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRussian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19409419.2019.1679663
OpenAlexW2982243978
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas44

This paper describes a study of the feminist hashtag campaign against blaming victims #этонеповодубить (it is not a reason to kill), which was launched in the Russian social media in 2018. This article considers #этонеповодубить as a case of discursive activism and combines techniques of discourse analysis with network analysis to reveal how the participants in the temporary community were opposed to the victim-blaming discourse. The strategies of legitimization that the participants used to justify their opinions and the provocative style of the campaign were investigated based on Reyes’ classification. Visual network analysis and text analysis were facilitated by Netlytic

Art · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social media · Social network analysis · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Social Media and Politics