Networked feminisms: cyberactivism, hackfeminism, hashtags and prefigurative politics

Abstract

This article traces a hasty genealogy of the networked feminisms of the last decades, from the beginnings of the Internet and cyberfeminism as an
iconoclastic artistic avant-garde, to the incursion of the voices of many women into digital networks, where revolted and unforeseen conversations
are initiated, self-convocations are generated without fixed leaderships and demands are extended to a transnational level. With the advent of Web 2.0,
after the cycle of mobilizations that began with the Arab Spring, a new feminist and networked sensibility permeates the forms of social struggles.
In this context, feminist connected crowds sprout, capable of taking the public and media spaces by storm, as performative constellations. Alongside
this social feminism of the fourth wave, the radical current of hackfeminism grew throughout the period, fighting for technological autonomy, against
corporate power, and promoting free tools for digital self-care and self-defense. From a Latin American perspective, this article outlines the
aggregative capacity of feminist connected action and also the use of hashtags of the period.