Women's activism online and the global struggle for social change

Women's activism online and the global struggle for social change / Carmit Wiesslitz, editor.

This book showcases the online activism of womens groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era, and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions. The focus of this book extends beyond campaigns against rape culture to include womens struggles on other political and environmenta...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Wiesslitz, Carmit (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Series:Palgrave studies in communication for social change.
Subjects:
Women political activists.
Social change.
Internet > Political aspects.
activists.
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Womens Eco-Activism in the Digital Age: An Australian Case Study of the Knitting Nannas Against Gas and Greeds Use of Social Media for Learning and Empowerment
  • Chapter 3: Im 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 Womens Online Activism on South AfricasTwittersphere
  • 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 Irans Mourning Mothers
  • Chapter 10: Mobilizing the Everyday Activist: Digital Communication Toward Action as the Womens 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 Reddits 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.

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