Digital Feminist Activism

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

• 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.