ABSTRACT

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. 

摘要

2018 年 3 月 8 日和 2019 年，西班牙首次举行了要求性别平等的妇女总罢工。这两次呼吁都取得了惊人的成功，成为女权主义的世界参考。这项研究调查了集体符号应对 (CSC) 流程如何通过 Twitter 处理罢工。这两年都对 Twitter 上的话语进行了分析，选择了 4,384 条推文，并通过词汇分析对其内容进行了分析。2018 年的结果表明 CSC 阶段：1）意识；2）分歧，女权主义的要求和男性在罢工中的作用进行了辩论；3) 融合，突出罢工的成功。然而，在 2019 年，推特上的女权主义者被迫应对大量针对她们的攻击。这种拖钓一直保持在意识和分歧阶段，使得很难就罢工的成功达成一致的讨论。此外，结果还表明，罢工中没有参考标签。得出的结论是，关于社交网络的话语已成为女权主义社会动员的关键因素，这种女权主义数字行动主义对于继续在西班牙传播性别平等的主张至关重要。