Discursive activism in the Russian feminist hashtag campaign

The #ItIsNotAReasonToKill case

Bibliographic Data

ID12977985
AuthorsElena Arbatskaya (0000-0002-7599-6688, University of Tyumen, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume11
Issue3
Pages253-273
Publication date2019-09-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRussian Journal of Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1940-9427 • E-ISSN: 1940-9419
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19409419.2019.1679663
OpenAlexW2982243978
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited44

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