Mediated friendship: Online and offline alliances in girls’ everyday lives in Italy
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Girls, digital cultures, friendship, gender, communication, Chicas, culturas digitales, amistad, género, comunicaciónAbstract
This article engages with the current debate on feminisms and digital media by looking at the tension between individualism and collective action. Drawing on an empirical research project involving girls, carried out in Italy and focusing on female processes of subjectivation in a postfeminist new media context, it will discuss constraints and opportunities shaped by the everyday use of social media. The article places itself in the latest trend of cyberfeminist studies, by analysing friendship relationships developed among girls in and through digital media. It also looks at how the mediated nature of social network sites offers room for the building of alliances among girls, and how this challenges online and offline gender norms. In doing so, the article reflects on the way female relationships change and are reworked in digital culture, thus giving a new meaning to the feminist concept of sisterhood.Este artículo se ocupa del debate actual sobre feminismos y medios digitales, con una mirada a la tensión existente entre el individualismo y la acción colectiva. Partiendo de un proyecto de investigación empírica con chicas, realizado en Italia y enfocado en los procesos femeninos de subjetivación en un contexto posfeminista de nuevos medios, el artículo trata sobre las limitaciones y las oportunidades modeladas por el uso cotidiano de medios sociales. El artículo se sitúa en la reciente ola de estudios ciberfeministas, analizando las relaciones de amistad entre chicas a través de medios digitales. También se ocupa de cómo la naturaleza mediada de las redes sociales digitales ofrece un espacio para las alianzas entre chicas, y de cómo esto desafía las normas de género en Internet y fuera de él. Al hacerlo, el artículo reflexiona sobre cómo las relaciones entre mujeres cambian y se transforman en la cultura digital, dando un nuevo significado al concepto feminista de sororidad.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1085
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