Disputation sociologi

Lisa Lindqvist försvarar sin doktorsavhandling i sociologi "Digitally Entangled Feminism: Hashtagging Resistance on Swedish Social Media". 

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This dissertation explores digital feminist practices through #MeToo, #Kvinnostrejk, and #WomenInMaleFields on Swedish Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Sweden functions as an illustrative example of how platform-user entanglements include platform-native and nationally localised discourse. Combining discourse analysis and interviews with feminist content creators, the included sub-studies demonstrate creative and boundary-pushing practices that move feminist expressions through social media.

In explorations of what hashtags, sounds, visual effects, and other platform features do when mobilised by feminist content creators, results point to how feminist resistance practices shrewdly fill, overflow, and extend boundaries imposed by commercial platforms. Like expanding foam or soft serve ice cream, this feminist resistance moves subtly through platforms by gathering individual experiences into curated collections, pushing feminist content into unrelated feeds, or redirecting harmful patterns into feminist humour. The dissertation answers calls for new understandings of digital activism, as social platforms host ever-evolving ways to be political in the contemporary online public sphere.

Medverkande

Opponent: 

  • Professor Jenny Sundén, Uppsala universitet

Betygsnämnd:

  • Professor Malin Sveningsson, Göteborgs universitet 
  • Professor Anna Foka, Uppsala universitet 
  • Docent Peter Wikström, Karlstads universitet

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