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

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, and a year later those of feminist

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. Another of her main areas of work is

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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

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(TVE), in the international section.

Biography and career

Montserrat Boix holds a licentiate in Information Sciences from the

Autonomous University of Barcelona The Autonomous University of Barcelona ( ca, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; , es, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona; UAB), is a public university mostly located in Cerdanyola del Vallès, near the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. ...

. 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

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on COPE Madrid. In 1983 she worked on the production of

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'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,

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, and Islamic movements, and

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. She was a special correspondent in Algeria in the early 1990s, covering information about massacres by the

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and the country's

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, 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

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and the

University of the Basque Country The University of the Basque Country ( eu, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, ''EHU''; es, Universidad del País Vasco, ''UPV''; UPV/EHU) is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially ...

. 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

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'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

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in the book ''The role of humanity in the information age. A Latin Perspective'', published by the

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. This was the first work to articulate the concept of "social

". In November 2006, in the publication ''Labrys'' no. 10, she poses the concept of feminist

in the essay "Hackeando el patriarcado: La lucha contra la violencia hacia las mujeres como nexo. Filosofía y práctica de Mujeres en Red desde el ciberfeminismo socia" (Hacking the Patriarchy: The Struggle Against Violence Against Women as a Nexus. Philosophy and Practice of Women on the Net from Social Cyberfeminism).

''Mujeres en Red''

In 1996, Montserrat Boix created ''Mujeres en Red'', a feminist periodical.

Awards and recognitions

* 2000: AMECO Communication Award * 2001: , given by the

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's Secretary of Equality * 2005: Recognition Award for journalistic work distinguished by the eradication of gender violence, given by the

's Observatory Against Domestic Violence * 2009: for her effort and perseverance in making ''Mujeres en Red'' one of the media of reference in the defense of women's rights * 2011: 7th Isonomía Award against gender violence, Isonomía Foundation/

Jaume I University Jaume I University ( es, Universidad Jaime I, ca-valencia, Universitat Jaume I, UJI; ) is a university in the city of Castelló de la Plana, Valencian Community, Spain. It was founded in 1991, and it has approximately 14,000 students. The camp ...

* 2015: Non-Sexist Communication Award, Association of Women Journalists of Catalonia * 2016: Chosen by ''Mujer Hoy'' magazine as one of "Spain's 100 Most Influential Women" * 2016, 2017: Included on the newspaper '' El Mundo''s list of Spain's 500 most influential women * 2017: 10th Creating Spaces of Equality Award in the Communication category, given by the Women's Council of the Municipality of Madrid

Publications

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Boix, Montserrat 1960 births 21st-century Spanish women writers Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni Journalists from Catalonia Spanish gender studies academics Living people Open source advocates People from Vallès Occidental Spanish feminist writers Spanish journalists Spanish women journalists Spanish women's rights activists Academic staff of the University of the Basque Country