Social media has opened the door for all of us to stand up to misogynist ideology from the comfort of our own homes on a more direct level. In All three authors have well-earned academic reputations.
Challenging such assertions, Dr Kaitlynn Mendes will show how engaging with feminism via digital technologies transforms participants’ lives in multiple ways.Taking an intersectional approach, Dr Mendes will demonstrate how, although it may be technologically easy to participate in digital feminist movements, there remain emotional, mental or practical barriers which create different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices, perspectives and experiences over others. In addition, I illuminate the interplay between digital feminist efforts and offline organizing in order to illustrate alternative ways in which digital feminism may or may not have lasting impact. The George Washington University. The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence concludes with Brigitte Lewis’ examination of the roots and impact of feminist digital activism, both online and off. Digital feminist geographies. #TrendingFeminism: The Impact of Digital Feminist Activism Clark, Cassie, The George Washington University, 2015, M.A. Emma Rees celebrates a new generation of online feminist campaignersThere’s a recurring joke on John Oliver’s American TV show 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. Digital feminist activism is a new iteration of feminist activism, offering new tools and tactics for feminists to utilize to spread awareness, disseminate information, and mobilize constituents.
Feminist Media Studies, 16(1), 150–163. Social media use has grown rapidly over the last decade.
This research seminar explores the impact of and barriers to participating in digital feminist campaigns such as the #MeToo movement. It explores debates about the significance of #MeToo within feminist history as well as digital activism and social movements more broadly. Drawing on qualitative data with 200 users of digital feminist campaigns such as #MeToo, #BeenRapedNeverReported and Everyday Sexism, and a textual analysis of over 1,000 pieces of digital data, this talk examines the complexities involved in participating in digital resistance to gender and sexual violence.This research seminar also intervenes in public discourses which deride movements such as #MeToo for being a form of ‘slacktivism’, arguing that while they may create feelings of solidarity (Dean, 2010), these don’t translate to ‘real world’ change.
Feminist collaboration is exemplified too by the fact that three authors worked together on this one text, although that’s not to say it’s a completely seamless read. Horeck, T. (2014).
Her talk will conclude by highlighting how hashtags like #BeenRapedNeverReported and #MeToo provide important opportunities for the development of feminist solidarity, consciousness and social change.
Rules around school uniforms are, the authors demonstrate, often the entry point into feminism and self-expression for these girls, since the rules “are organized around the binary of appropriate/inappropriate sexuality, enforced through the gaze and evaluation of…teachers”.The book pays careful attention to the “collective care strategies” feminist activists must practise in order to handle at times terrifying online abuse (an endnote explains how, when interviewed for the book, Laura Bates asked that some of the trolling she received as founder of Everyday Sexism should not be documented “because she didn’t want any trolls to know her ‘weaknesses’”). The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence concludes with Brigitte Lewis’ examination of the roots and impact of feminist digital activism, both online and off.
Today, Americans use a range of social media sites and are increasingly turning to these platforms to get news and information. Feminist activists protest tax on sanitary pads: attempts to normalize conversations about menstruation in India using hashtag activism. Social media has given the feminist movement the ability to evolve and grow. Mendes, for example, wrote the important 2015 book The authors engage with a huge amount of material – over 80 semi-structured interviews, and the analysis of more than 800 digital items (from blogposts to tweets and Tumblr images) – to examine how women and girls use technology “to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism”. Subject: Women's studies How Do Video Games Normalize Violence? Drawing on qualitative data with 200 users of digital feminist campaigns such as #MeToo, #BeenRapedNeverReported and Everyday Sexism, and a textual analysis of over 1,000 pieces of digital data, this talk examines the complexities involved in …
In this chapter, we analyse recent digital activism that has supported substantial changes in social, political and cultural contexts, by examining Destroy the Joint, an online feminist group that targets sexism and misogyny in its activism. During recent scandals, women have taken to social media to call out sexual offenders, sexist work environments, and unfair treatment.
1589542. Six case studies form the book’s backbone: the “Hollaback!” project against street harassment, the Everyday Sexism project, the Tumblr and Facebook site “Who Needs Feminism?”, the Twitter hashtag “#BeenRapedNeverReported”, various Twitter communities, and a London school’s “Feminism Club”.It’s the last chapter, “Teen Feminist Digital Activisms”, which is perhaps the most thought-provoking, foregrounding the marginalised voices and experiences of teenage girls in a powerful way. In this paper I examine the intent, usefulness, and potential impact of digital feminist activism in the United States by analyzing key examples of social movements conducted via digital media. The authors engage with a huge amount of material – over 80 semi-structured interviews, and the analysis of more than 800 digital items (from blogposts to tweets and Tumblr images) – to examine how women and girls use technology “to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism”. While the internet is undoubtedly a cesspool of sexual harassment, it is also the site of digital activism.