Montserrat Boix

Montserrat Boix Piqué (born 26 January 1960) is a Spanish journalist, considered among the most influential women in her country.

In the early 1980s she began her professional career at COPE Miramar 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.

Since 1986, she has been a journalist for the Information Services of Televisión Española (TVE), in the international section.

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

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.

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

• "Manual sobre el uso del ordenador y la Internet. Historia sobre las redes internacionales de mujeres en la Internet" in El viaje de las internautas.

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.

Una perspectiva de género en las nuevas tecnologías (2001).

Spanish Association of Women Communicators (AMECO)

2 April 2001.

Conclusions of the Presentation.

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.

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

"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.""

• Sociedad Civil y redes de mujeres en las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación (2002)

• "Cuando la Violencia doméstica cruza el umbral del espacio público" in Violencia y Género Volume II.

(2003) María Teresa López Beltrán, María José Jiménez Tomé, Eva María Gil Benitez (Eds).

Asociación de Estudios Históricos sobre la Mujer.

Centro de ediciones de la diputación de Málaga.

ISBN 9788477855293.

• "Los géneros de la red: los ciberfeminismos" in the book The role of humanity in the information age.

A Latin Perspective by Ana de Miguel and Montserrat Boix.

• "Las TIC, un nuevo espacio de intervención en la defensa de los derechos sociales. Las mujeres okupan la red" in the book Género, sexo, medios de comunicación.

Realidades, estrategias, utopías coordinated by Natividad Abril.

University of the Basque Country.

ISBN 8487595952.

• Comparecencia en el Senado en la Ponencia sobre la erradicación de la Violencia doméstica.

Joint Commission for Women's Rights.

• Hacktivismo Feminista (Versión Beta-1) (2003).

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 Nicolás Salmerón Award 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).

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