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‘Fight like a girl’: Virtual bedroom culture in public school occupations in Brazil
The aim of this work is to analyse a possible association of feminist engagement young women and media activism through observing the public school occupations (PSO) in the state of São Paulo Brazil in 2015. This issue has implications for education gender and media policies and citizenship. Cultural Studies was the main theory approach used especially the concept of bedroom culture. The research design of this study was qualitative and exploratory with focus group data analysis. In the results we observe that gender had a specific relationship with the PSO due to the central role of females in the movement which was highlighted by the six girls who participated in the focus group. The online and offline involvement with this movement helped increase gender awareness among the youth enabling the development of a political posture for the confrontation of the oppression and domination of women especially for girls who had never had contact with feminism out of their bedrooms.
Strange fruit: The rise of Brazil’s ‘new right-wing’ and the Non-Partisan School Movement
The new right-wing Brazilian Non-Partisan School Movement (in Portuguese Escola Sem Partido or ESP) was created in 2004 to denounce ‘indoctrination in schools’. It has however had greater repercussions via a strong presence on social media. The objective of this article is to analyse these discussions on Twitter. ESP’s official discourse and theoretical discussions about the role of social networks supported this study. The content and network analyses of the tweets reveal the following relevant conclusions: the dissemination of content is much stronger than any discussion on the part of both the new right wing and the left-wing partisans; there is a predominance of ESP supporters in a discussion that has characteristics of an ‘anti-public sphere’; communication between these two groups is weak; and the tone of the content spread by ESP supporters resonates with many features of president-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s communication style.