Abstract
This paper analyzes the strategies that the Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito displayed on Twitter in 2018, during the first legislative debate around the bill for the voluntary pregnancy interruption in Argentina. In the frame of the mobilization, world-wide known as the “marea verde” (lit.: green tide) due to its magnitude and reach, an intense feminist cyberactivism for #abortolegal (#legalabortion) was generated in the country. In the article, a map with binding milestones, modalities and hashtags is traced during the process, focusing on the platform Twitter, for the centrality it acquired in the public debate, while analyzing the response generated by sectors opposed to the abortion legalization. The data was collected using scraping techniques.
Highlights
Seguro y Gratuito displayed on Twitter in 2018, during the first legislative debate around the bill for the voluntary pregnancy interruption in Argentina
In the frame of the mobilization, world-wide known as the “marea verde” due to its magnitude and reach, an intense feminist cyberactivism for #abortolegal (#legalabortion) was generated in the country
A map with binding milestones, modalities and hashtags is traced during the process, focusing on the platform Twitter, for the centrality it acquired in the public debate, while analyzing the response generated by sectors opposed to the abortion legalization
Summary
El ciberactivismo feminista por #AbortoLegal y la contraofensiva #SalvemosLasDosVidas en Argentina. El objetivo de este trabajo consiste, en primer lugar, en analizar las principales características de la apropiación de tecnologías digitales, en particular de la plataforma Twitter, por su centralidad en la discusión pública, por parte de la Campaña Nacional por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito durante el debate legislativo de la ley por la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en 2018 y, luego, en analizar la respuesta de los sectores opuestos a la legalización, en calidad de contraofensiva para obstaculizar la aprobación de la ley. A principios de marzo, la presentación del proyecto de ley de La Campaña por séptima vez en el Congreso de la Nación con los hashtags trending en redes y una “marea verde” como protagonista de la multitudinaria movilización nacional el #8M, en ocasión del segundo Paro Internacional de Mujeres, generaron la presión suficiente en instancias gubernamentales para no obstaculizar la discusión en el ámbito legislativo. Se trató de un momento extraordinario de ciberactivismo en torno al objetivo específico de lograr la aprobación de la ley por la interrupción legal del embarazo
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