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Everyday feminist tagging as techno-rhetorical strategy: interference and curation through Instagram hashtags in #Kvinnostrejk
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7227-6706
2026 (English)In: Information, Communication and Society, ISSN 1369-118X, E-ISSN 1468-4462Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
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Hashtag use in online protest is widespread and well-researched. Yet scholarship has largely focused on viral moments and large-scale mobilisations, leaving everyday, platform-native, and sustained practices comparatively underexamined. These routine forms of tagging can subtly intervene in the engagement-driven sorting logics that shape visibility online and contribute to gradual forms of consciousness-raising among unexpected audiences. This study explores everyday use of hashtags through the Swedish feminist initiative #Kvinnostrejk (women's strike), mobilised continuously since 2021. It examines how routine tagging practices push feminist content into otherwise unrelated streams, assemble newsfeeds into collective narratives of gendered violence, and carry tags across online and offline contexts as recognisable political symbols. By introducing the concept of techno-rhetorical strategies, the article contributes in two ways: it shows how small-scale tagging practices shape visibility without relying on virality, and it extends sociotechnical perspectives that emphasise the role of platform-specific affordances by foregrounding the inseparability of technical operations and rhetorical effects.

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Taylor & Francis, 2026.
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Digital activism, feminism, protest hashtags, Instagram, platform affordances
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Sociology
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-111921DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2026.2702608ISI: 001829266200001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105045678146OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-111921DiVA, id: diva2:2091116
Available from: 2026-08-11 Created: 2026-08-11 Last updated: 2026-08-13Bibliographically approved

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