Women’s Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include women’s struggles on other political and environmental issues, such as the campaign against the radical right-wing in Austria.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-08-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:543 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
Antal sidor:310
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031316203

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Carmit Wiesslitz PhD, is Lecturer in the Department of Politics & Communications at Hadassah Academic College, Israel. She is the author of Internet democracy and social change: The case of Israel, published in 2019 by Lexington Books. She studies new media, democracy and civil society, and women’s digital activism.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Women's Avenues of Digital Activism: Fighting for their Own.- Part I: Overcoming the Digital Divide and Going Viral: Women's Online Struggles for Social Change.- Chapter 2: KN-IT-Working - Older Women’s Eco-Activism in the Digital Age: An Australian Case Study of the Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greed’s Use of Social Media for Learning and Empowerment.- Chapter 3: “I’m at 100!”: Protesting the Right-Wing Government in Austria.- Chapter 4: Feminists’ Social Media Protests and the Digital Public Sphere in Turkey.- Chapter 5: A Technopolitical Approach of the Feminist Performance Un Violador en tu Camino [A rapist in your path]: Exploratory Insights from Online Videos.- Part II: An Alternative Democratic Public Sphere — The Internet as a Safe Space.- Chapter 6: Intersectionality in Feminist Hashtags and Democracy: How the Black Women's Day in Brazil Mobilizes Specificities within the Feminist Movement.- Chapter 7: “My Body is Not Your Crime Scene”: The Polarization and “Weaponization” of Women’s Online Activism on South Africa’sTwittersphere.- Chapter 8: #NoIsNo. Shaping Public Debate on Rape Culture and Sexual Assault in Spain through Social Media.- Chapter 9: Politicization of Motherhood as a Mode of Digital Activism: The Case of Iran’s Mourning Mothers.- Chapter 10: Mobilizing the Everyday Activist: Digital Communication Toward Action as the Women’s March Advances from Grassroots Activism.- Part III: Democratic Digital Discursive Spaces of and for Women: Unintended Consequences.- Chapter 11: Safe Spaces on Social Media Platforms: Selective Censorship and Content Moderation in Reddit’s r/TwoXChromosomes.- Chapter 12: ‘Intersectional, Queer Feminist Magazine’ Made by White People? An Analysis of Digital Feminist Debates on Popular Intersectionality in Germany.- Chapter 13: “Ca_Va_Saigner” (“There Will be Blood”): Digital Menstrual Activism in France.- Chapter 14: “Feminism in India” Framing #MeTooIndia: A Case of Digital Activism.- Chapter 15: Conclusion.