Cyberfeminism and Critical Multiliteracies in Cyberculture¹

ABSTRACT

This article aims to understand how the role of cyberactivist women in combating discursive violence practiced by men in social networks can mobilize critical cyberculture multiliteracies and contribute to feminist training processes at the university. The study, supported by the theoretical framework of the social perspective and a critical approach to multiliteracies, dialogues with cyberfeminism and violence through the use of language, analyzing an activist practice and its worldwide repercussion, broadcast in videos on the social network YouTube and expressed in the speech of politicians and cultural practitioners of interaction. The historical processes of worsening political and ideological conflicts related to the patriarchal and sexist legacy are reflected in public and social spaces and also in cyberspace, materialized in violence through the use of language in social networks and in the practices of cyberactivists who struggle, resist and mark their social place, pointing out the potential of these experiences in the development of critical knowledge for the social and political formation of other women against this form of oppression.

Keywords:
Cyberculture; Multiliteracies; Social networks; Cyberfeminism; Discursive violence