Does having access to information imply being well informed? Considerations based on a study of women’s everyday communication practices in Argentina

• How do ordinary citizens get informed today? Based on qualitative interviews conducted with women in Argentina in 2021-2022, I analyze which forms of information they have access to, which types of media they tend to adopt or reject and why, and what are their strategies to stay on top of those gendered issues that particularly affect them. The analysis shows how and why they find the daily task of informing themselves problematic in various ways. The analysis moreover illuminates how, to stay on top of issues that affect them, they resort to distinct practices: they relate to each other, choose collaborative media with a feminist focus, and follow female journalists recognized for their attention to gender issues. The work-in-progress article on which this presentation is based will contribute to rethinking how to study everyday information practices with a gender perspective, and to imagining how information diets aimed at advancing women’s rights may look like.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Media and Communications (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Annan samhällsvetenskap -- Genusstudier (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Other Social Sciences -- Gender Studies (hsv//eng)

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