Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190697853
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 02/07/2019
Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Digital Feminist Interventions
Chapter Two: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Studying Digital Feminist Activism
Chapter Three: Documenting Harassment, Sexism and Misogyny in Digital Feminist Spaces
Chapter Four: Feminist Organizers' Experiences of Activism
Chapter Five: Twitter as a pedagogical platform: Creating feminist digital affective counter publics to challenge rape culture
Chapter Six: Hashtag Feminism and Sharing Stories with #BeenRapedNeverReported
Chapter Seven: Teen Feminist Digital Activisms: Resisting Rape Culture in and Around School
Conclusion: Doing Digital Feminist Activism
Notes
References
Index
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