“You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist context

This paper analyses how fans engage on Twitter with the 22 players in the starting line up during the week of the 2019 UEFA Women’s Champions League final. It explores fans’ entangled representations of female professional footballers on Twitter from a postfeminist sensibility. Out of 200 tweets pos...

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Autores: Martín i Horcajo, Montse, Pla, Gil, Coromina, Òscar, Tejedor, Santiago
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:UVic-UCC
Repositorio:RiUVic. Repositori institucional de la UVic-UCC
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10854/180204
https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2211535
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Palabra clave:Dones futbolistes
Estudis de dones
Feminisme
Mitjans de comunicació social
Twitter
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spelling “You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist contextMartín i Horcajo, MontsePla, GilCoromina, ÒscarTejedor, SantiagoDones futbolistesEstudis de donesFeminismeMitjans de comunicació socialTwitter79This paper analyses how fans engage on Twitter with the 22 players in the starting line up during the week of the 2019 UEFA Women’s Champions League final. It explores fans’ entangled representations of female professional footballers on Twitter from a postfeminist sensibility. Out of 200 tweets posted by the players during the day of the final and the week after, the research focuses on the 1468 fans replies to the 20 most engaged players’ tweets. To facilitate this, we developed an analysis instrument called the 3Fs Spiral, which helps to disentangle the complex meanings of the fans’ replies on Twitter. Results highlight the fans’ entangled representations and the continuous flow of disruption and reinforcement of the gender order that emerge from them in a set of tweets. The decentralised nature of Twitter has the potential to slowly promote the change of dominant gender narratives and frames in female football.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionTaylor & FrancisUniversitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Facultat d'Educació, Traducció, Esports i Psicologia2025202520232023info:eu-repo/semantics/article37 p.application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10854/180204https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2023.2211535reponame:RiUVic. Repositori institucional de la UVic-UCCinstname:UVic-UCCInglésAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dspace.uvic.cat:10854/1802042026-06-07T19:15:21Z
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title “You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist context
spellingShingle “You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist context
Martín i Horcajo, Montse
Dones futbolistes
Estudis de dones
Feminisme
Mitjans de comunicació social
Twitter
79
title_short “You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist context
title_full “You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist context
title_fullStr “You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist context
title_full_unstemmed “You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist context
title_sort “You are the best… but can you twerk?” How Twitter users challenge the messaging around female professional footballers in the 2019 UEFA Women's Champions League final in a postfeminist context
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Martín i Horcajo, Montse
Pla, Gil
Coromina, Òscar
Tejedor, Santiago
author Martín i Horcajo, Montse
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Pla, Gil
Coromina, Òscar
Tejedor, Santiago
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Coromina, Òscar
Tejedor, Santiago
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Facultat d'Educació, Traducció, Esports i Psicologia
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Dones futbolistes
Estudis de dones
Feminisme
Mitjans de comunicació social
Twitter
79
topic Dones futbolistes
Estudis de dones
Feminisme
Mitjans de comunicació social
Twitter
79
description This paper analyses how fans engage on Twitter with the 22 players in the starting line up during the week of the 2019 UEFA Women’s Champions League final. It explores fans’ entangled representations of female professional footballers on Twitter from a postfeminist sensibility. Out of 200 tweets posted by the players during the day of the final and the week after, the research focuses on the 1468 fans replies to the 20 most engaged players’ tweets. To facilitate this, we developed an analysis instrument called the 3Fs Spiral, which helps to disentangle the complex meanings of the fans’ replies on Twitter. Results highlight the fans’ entangled representations and the continuous flow of disruption and reinforcement of the gender order that emerge from them in a set of tweets. The decentralised nature of Twitter has the potential to slowly promote the change of dominant gender narratives and frames in female football.
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