“Homophobia is so last century”: activism of telenovela fans in defense of fictional lesbians couples
This paper analyses the activity of fans who shipped two fictional lesbian couples from recent Rede Globo’s telenovelas. It proposes a reflection over the concept of fan activism (Bennet, 2012) by identifying the practices of LGBTQ communities who acted in order to defend lesbian representativeness...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA |
| Repositorio: | Comunicación y Sociedad |
| Idioma: | inglés español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:comunicacionysociedad.cucsh.udg.mx:article/7312 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.comunicacionysociedad.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/comsoc/article/view/e7312 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Activism Fans Telenovelas LGBTQ Lesbians Social television Homophobia Activismo Lesbianas Televisión social Homofobia |
| Sumario: | This paper analyses the activity of fans who shipped two fictional lesbian couples from recent Rede Globo’s telenovelas. It proposes a reflection over the concept of fan activism (Bennet, 2012) by identifying the practices of LGBTQ communities who acted in order to defend lesbian representativeness in television. The research has a qualitative approach and made use of methodological procedures from Grounded Theory and netnography to process a data basis of 52 515 tweets. |
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