During the last five years mediated activism dedicated to LGBT+ issues in Belarus has flourished despite restrictive context: several new online initiatives, including a media project, have been launched. The current study investigates how one of the most politically underprivileged and marginalized groups – LGBT+ activists – make use of online social media to advocate for positive social and political modification in the Belarusian society. By collecting interviews with activists as a primary source of lived experiences, applying thematical analysis on the data from 13 interviews, and then contributing with netnography-informed content analysis as an instrument to analyse 34 posts written in February of 2018 on the personal Facebook pages of the same activists, the current research examines patterns of experiences surrounding participation in mediated LGBT+ activism. The power dynamics and the influence of the repressive context on the practices of mediated activism are analysed through feminist critical discourse analysis with specific focus on heteronormativity as a key-concept of imposing power on marginalized identities. Four global themes emerged in the result of the analysis: 1) heteronormativity and state control; 2) identity as “doing”; 3) the “other” activism, and 4) social change as individual transformation. Topics of heteronormativity, homophobia, hate-crime and violence turned out to be most present in the posts produced by the activists. It was found that in the restrictive spaces mediated activism and social media, instead of serving as tools for mass outreach and mobilization, endanger activists engaged in LGBT+ issues. Burnout, risk of poverty, emotional and physical assaults, and exposure to social sanctions are happening to activists because of their presence online, and there are extremely limited tools to combat these consequences of publicity. In Belarusian context, the shrinking space for civil society and limited political opportunities outweigh the potential of online social media, lower their impact and determine prospects of social change in such a way, when viral organizing or structural transformations become extremely limited.

Submitted by Erika Demachki (erikademachki@gmail.com) on 2018-06-29T22:04:20Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Wéber Félix de Oliveira - 2018.pdf: 4478764 bytes, checksum: 3209fb51a293a2b51257b7c4978d617d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2018-07-03T15:21:51Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Wéber Félix de Oliveira - 2018.pdf: 4478764 bytes, checksum: 3209fb51a293a2b51257b7c4978d617d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-03T15:21:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Wéber Félix de Oliveira - 2018.pdf: 4478764 bytes, checksum: 3209fb51a293a2b51257b7c4978d617d (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-05-30 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Goiás - FAPEG / It is through communicational processes that people interact with each other and that symbolic goods, social meanings, identities and culture are produced. from this idea, it is understood that the circulation of the senses is directly connected to the production and the discursive dissemination in the public space. thus, in the present study was proposed to analyze the discourses of the lgbt movements in goiânia and their circulation in the public space. the aim of this work is to uncover the paths of lgbt activism discourses in the city, considering discursive flows, mediation and resignification. for this purpose, the construction of oral life histories (narratives) was used as a methodology in order to analyze the re-signification constructed by lgbt subjects. in this way, nine people (gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals) were interviewed to understand how the communicative process takes place in the public space. by observing the communicative flows, was identified the existence of discursive frontiers that interfere in the access, consumption, interpretation and reproduction of lgbt discourses. / É por meio dos processos comunicacionais que as pessoas interagem umas com as outras e que são produzidos os bens simbólicos, os sentidos sociais, as identidades e a cultura. a partir dessa ideia, entende-se que a circulação de sentidos está diretamente conectada à produção e à disseminação discursiva no espaço público. assim, no presente estudo propõe-se analisar os discursos dos movimentos lgbts em goiânia e a sua circulação no espaço público. busca-se, com esse trabalho, descortinar os caminhos dos discursos do ativismo lgbt na cidade, considerando-se os fluxos, a mediação e a ressignificação discursivos. para tanto, utilizou-se como metodologia a construção de histórias de vida oral (narrativas) para que se pudesse analisar a ressignificação construída por sujeitos lgbts. dessa maneira, foram entrevistadas nove pessoas (gays, lésbicas, bissexuais e transexuais) para que se compreendesse como se dá o processo comunicativo no espaço público. ao observar-se os fluxos comunicativos, foram identificados a existência de fronteiras discursivas que interferem no acesso, no consumo, na interpretação e na reprodução dos discursos lgbts.

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