Digital Feminist Activism

Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose, Jessalynn Keller, University of Leicester) Mendes, Kaitlynn (Associate Professor in Media and Communication, Associate Professor in Media and Communication, University College of London) Ringrose, Jessica (Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education, Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education, University of Calgary.) Keller, Jessalynn (Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media and Film

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From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and #BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory digital media as activist tools to speak, network, and organize against sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. As the first book-length study to examine how girls, women, and some men negotiate rape culture through the use of digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps, the authors explore four primary questions: What experiences of harassment, misogyny, and rape culture are being responded to? How are participants using digital media technologies to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism? Why are girls, women and some men choosing to mobilize digital media technologies in this way? And finally, what are the various experiences of using digital technologies to engage in activism? In order to capture these diverse experiences of doing digital feminist activism, the authors augment their analysis of this media (blog posts, tweets, and selfies) with in-depth interviews and close-observations of several online communities that operate globally. Ultimately, the book demonstrates the nuances within and between digital feminist activism and highlight that, although it may be technologically easy for many groups to engage in digital feminist activism, there remain emotional, mental, or practical barriers which create different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices, perspectives, and experiences over others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-02-21
Mått155 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in Digital Politics
Antal sidor224
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190697853

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Introduction: Digital Feminist InterventionsChapter Two: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Studying Digital Feminist ActivismChapter Three: Documenting Harassment, Sexism and Misogyny in Digital Feminist SpacesChapter Four: Feminist Organizers' Experiences of ActivismChapter Five: Twitter as a pedagogical platform: Creating feminist digital affective counter publics to challenge rape cultureChapter Six: Hashtag Feminism and Sharing Stories with #BeenRapedNeverReportedChapter Seven: Teen Feminist Digital Activisms: Resisting Rape Culture in and Around SchoolConclusion: Doing Digital Feminist ActivismNotesReferencesIndex

The presence of an invincible, mendacious misogynist as one of the most powerful people on earth has provided the backdrop for a revival of feminist activism. The Trumpian turn will go down as a key defining moment in feminism's development in the digital sphere. Much of this feminism, fuelled by fury and expressed online, has met with a backlash which, ironically, makes use of the same social media tools. In Digital Feminist Activism this dynamic is admirably charted by Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose and Jessalynn Keller, for the first time in a book-length study. ... We need books such as Digital Feminist Activism to help us navigate the digital "real" world we now almost all inhabit.