Montserrat Boix

Montserrat Boix Piqué (born 26 January 1960) is a Spanish journalist, considered among the most influential women in her country. In early 2000, she created and developed the concepts of social cyberfeminism, and a year later those of feminist hacktivism. Another of her main areas of work is gender violence and communication. She has also stood out as a defender of the right to communication and citizenship rights for women. Since 1986, she has been a journalist for the Information Services of Televisión Española (TVE), in the international section.

Biography and career Montserrat Boix holds a licentiate in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

In the early 1980s she began her professional career at in Barcelona. She later moved to Madrid to join the program Encarna de noche, directed by Encarna Sánchez on COPE Madrid. In 1983 she worked on the production of TV3's year-end special directed by Abili Roma. In 1986 she joined TVE's information services, specializing in foreign policy issues and the Arab world, Maghreb, Sahel, and Islamic movements, and jihadist terrorism. She was a special correspondent in Algeria in the early 1990s, covering information about massacres by the GIA and the country's civil war, in Sahrawi refugee camps, Morocco, Egypt, Afghanistan, Guatemala, and Bangladesh.

In addition to the practice of journalism, she is a professor in Master's programs on equality, technology, communication, and development with a gender perspective at various universities, including the International University of Andalucía and the University of the Basque Country. She researches, in turn, how technologies serve as a tool for a new, more immediate, global, and democratized journalism. She works transversally on gender perspective and has received several awards for her work on more egalitarian journalism, among them the Recognition Award for most outstanding journalistic work in the eradication of gender violence granted by the General Council of the Judiciary's Observatory Against Domestic and Gender Violence (2005), the for her effort and perseverance in making Mujeres en Red one of the media of reference in the defense of women's rights (2009), and the Non-Sexist Communication Award from the Association of Women Journalists of Catalonia (2015).

Social cyberfeminism In 2002, Boix published "Los géneros de la red: los ciberfeminismos" with feminist philosopher Ana de Miguel in the book The role of humanity in the information age. A Latin Perspective, published by the University of Chile.

Montserrat Boix distinguishes between radical cyberfeminism, conservative cyberfeminism, and what she herself calls social cyberfeminism, which as indicated "is associated with organizations, networks, and social movements that have incorporated ICT as communication channels with a tradition of thought and action prior to the emergence of networks on the Internet where traditionally marginalized groups demand new political spaces." — Cecilia Castaño

Awards and recognitions 2000: AMECO Communication Award 2005: Recognition Award for journalistic work distinguished by the eradication of gender violence, given by the General Council of the Judiciary's Observatory Against Domestic Violence

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