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Often cohabiting in these dynamics are ambivalent ideas and imaginaries that both reject and express feminist issues. Particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of digital technologies increased exponentially to overcome mobility constraints, popularizing connective action around feminism and, at the same time, reinforcing normative views of society. This article explores these ambivalences by focusing on TikTok discourses, whose popularity grew intensely during the pandemic. Departing from a feminist constructionist perspective and using content analysis, we examine the 100 most prominent videos on the Portuguese hashtags #feminismo (#feminism) and #antifeminismo (#antifeminism) in the period corresponding to general containment measures in the second phase of the public health crisis. The results are less than encouraging. Over half of the analysed videos contain discursive dynamics conforming to social hierarchization (53%), often reaffirming gender stereotypes. By allowing forms of popular feminism and antifeminism to permeate the shared discourses, the results suggest that the platform gives rise to ideas and discourses that reify unbalanced power relations.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/journalmedia4010017","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,6]],"date-time":"2023-02-06T06:22:25Z","timestamp":1675664545000},"page":"244-257","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Mapping Feminist Politics on Tik Tok during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Content Analysis of the Hashtags #Feminismo and #Antifeminismo"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"4","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6356-6042","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rita Bas\u00edlio","family":"Sim\u00f5es","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal"},{"name":"NOVA Institute of Communication (ICNOVA), NOVA University Lisbon, 1069-061 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3198-3348","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Agda Dias","family":"Baeta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, 3004-531 Coimbra, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3023-8960","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bruno Frutuoso","family":"Costa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Sociology and Public Policy, University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), 1649-026 Lisboa, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Technology gap and other tensions in social support and legal procedures: Stakeholders\u2019 perceptions of online violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic","volume":"31","author":"Amaral","year":"2022","journal-title":"Profesional de la Informaci\u00f3n"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"137","article-title":"L\u00edngua(gem)-discurso-ideologia: O p\u00f3s-feminismo e a limita\u00e7\u00e3o da justi\u00e7a social","volume":"1","author":"Neto","year":"2021","journal-title":"L\u00edngua(gem) e justi\u00e7a social: Saberes, pr\u00e1ticas e paradigmas"},{"key":"ref_3","unstructured":"Luiz, Tiago Marques, Ferreira, Nilton C\u00e9sar, and da Silva, Suellen Cordovil (2022). 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