“O que eu faço na internet também é importante” – trajetórias feministas a partir de grupos de discussão no Facebook

Abstract

The present paper searches to analyze the construction of feminist paths of a few young women from the city of Santa Maria/RS, through discussion groups in the social network Facebook. To achieve this, we have analyzed, from March to September 2015, the interactions in three groups: Marcha das Vadias Santa Maria, Feminismo SM e Juventude Negra Feminina de Santa Maria (JuNF); and held enterviews with some of these women, invited to contribute on the paper through the same social network. For this study, we lean on the analyzis of online communities by Castells (2013) and the ones about social network by Recuero (2009), and some some virtual ethnography foundations proposed by Hine (2000). The results of this research point towards the need of self-organization in the discussion groups for the empowerment of socially oppressed groups; the prominence of support networks that said groups represent to their members; and the importance of divergence and debate inside the feminist movement.