LGBTQ+ and Feminist Digital Activism - A Linguistic Perspective

"This Element focuses on the linguistic and discursive practices employed by digital citizens to promote their causes on social media, that is to engage in digital activism, drawing attention to the growing importance of this phenomenon in relation to gender identity and sexuality issues. I propose the label LGBTQ+ Digital Activism to join the already existing one Feminist Digital Activism and argue that, while these have been areas of interest from sociology and communication specialists, digital activism is still to be embraced as a field of research by applied linguists. I point out to a number of linguistic and discursive features that are popular among digital activists and support this through the analysis of the use of the hashtag #wontbeerased combining Social Media Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies. I suggest that further research is needed to explore how language is used to propagate and popularize emancipatory discourses online"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Current trends in the academic literature on digital activism; 3. Case study: #wontbeerased; 4. LGBTQ+ and feminist digital activism; References.

Summary

This Element focuses on the linguistic and discursive practices employed by digital citizens to promote their causes on social media, that is to engage in digital activism, drawing attention to the growing importance of this phenomenon about gender identity and sexuality issues.

Foreword

This Element shows the linguistic and discursive practices employed by LGBTQ+ and Feminist digital activists to promote their online causes.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Zottola
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009507417
• ISBN: 978-1-00-950741-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 242 g
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociolinguistics, Digital lifestyle, Feminism & feminist theory, Gay & Lesbian studies, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Feminism and feminist theory, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Gender studies: transgender & intersex