"Black women and their cyberactivisms: building networks of affection, (re)existence and dissident epistemologies in the digital world".
Black Feminisms; Cyberactivisms; New Information and Communication Technologies; Black Women; Cartography.
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This dissertation aims to understand the possibilities of brand new social movements (Perez, 2019) of black woman cyberactivists to mobilize the strengthening of Black Feminisms and the fight against racism, sexism, ageism, transphobia, ableism and other forms of oppression in their social networks, anchored in the proposition of Nascimento (2021) about the concept of “women” to characterize the different conceptions that involve “being a woman” and which, in the contemporary context of inseparability between Technology, Communication and Education, can be experienced in different contexts, including digital. In light of intersectionality as a theoretical-methodological instrument (Akotirene, 2019), Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (2012) and Deleuze and Guattari's Cartography, the research aims to follow three subjects/actors on the social network Instagram, during the months from October to December 2024, to map the occupation of cyberspace by black feminist women in the construction of their own narratives, experience of their affections, production of their agencies and other epistemologies that present themselves as micropolitical actions, in this rhizomatic multiplicity provided by the diverse digital activism, against the racist/patriarchal/colonial hegemonic technological logic and for the empowerment of other bodies occupying social networks in their becoming. |