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

• Autore: Wiesslitz Carmit
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.42
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 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 -- Part II: An Alternative Democratic Public Sphere-The Internet as a Safe Space -- Part III: Democratic Digital Discursive Spaces of and for Women-Unintended Consequences -- References -- 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 -- Introduction -- Older Women's Online Capabilities and Activism: The Literature -- Case Study Methodology -- The Context: Fighting fracking -- Research Findings about KNAG's Use of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 Tools -- Beginnings and Online Launch -- Overcoming the Digital Divide, Extending Digital Literacy -- Collective Identity and Community -- A Media Movement Overcoming Ageist Sexism and Climate Skepticism -- Naughty Knitting at Doubtful Creek -- "Call the Cops! It's the Knitting Nannas!" -- Fossil Fool Bulletins -- Conclusion and Implications for the Inclusion of Older Women's Online Activism -- References -- Chapter 3: "I'm at 100!": Protesting the Right-Wing Government in Austria -- Introduction and Objective -- Movements, Participatory Practices and the Public Sphere -- Findings and Discussion: Grannies against the Right -- Public Protest and Digital Activism -- Communicative Practices and Networking -- Safe Spaces and Vulnerability -- Collective Identity and Agency -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Feminists' Social Media Protests and the Digital Public Sphere in Turkey -- Introduction. ; The History of the Women's Movement in Turkey -- Theoretical Framework -- Methodology -- Results -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: A Technopolitical Approach of the Feminist Performance Un Violador en tu Camino [A Rapist in Your Path]: Exploratory Insights from Online Videos -- Technopolitics as an Analytic Tool -- Methodology -- Video Data Set Collected and Selection -- Digital Audiovisual Data Work -- Results and Analysis -- The Online Dynamic of Un violador en tu camino -- Offline Markers. Lyrics, Art Performance and Latin American Feminist Struggles -- Conclusions -- References -- 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 -- Introduction -- Latin America Democracy and Black Feminism -- Media Platforms and Feminism Hashtags -- The Construction of an Analytical Perspective -- How Did Black Feminism Articulate Itself in Order to Disseminate its Agenda through the Platform's Affordances and Options? -- General Presentation of Data -- Calls to Action -- How Intersectionality in Hashtag Feminism Promotes the Public Debate to Create More Deliberative (Inclusive and Reflective) Social Processes? -- Personal Stories -- Intersectionality -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: "My Body is Not Your Crime Scene": The Polarization and "Weaponization" of Women's Online Activism on South Africa's Twittersphere -- The Context: South Africa's "Pandemic" of Violence against Women -- Networked Activism: Review of Related Literature -- Conceptualizing Women's Online Activism as an Assemblage -- A Note on Methodology -- Findings -- The Mobilization of Networked Outrage -- The Polarization of Women's Online Activism. ; "One Rapist One Bullet": Weaponizing Women's Digital Activism -- Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: #NoIsNo. Shaping Public Debate on Rape Culture and Sexual Assault in Spain through Social Media -- Introduction -- A Methodological Note: Toward a Hashtag Ethnography -- A Traditionally Niche Feminist Cause is Made Accessible to a Larger Audience: Understanding that #itisnotabuseitisrape and Tweeting About Rape Culture -- Framing the Issue Online: From #waronwomen to #noisno -- Conclusion: Twitter Users Shape the Technical Debate about Consent -- References -- Chapter 9: Politicization of Motherhood as a Mode of Digital Activism: The Case of Iran's Mourning Mothers -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework: Gender Norms in Framing Online Expression of Emotion -- Methodology -- The Mourning Mothers Network -- Motherhood as a Mode of Digital Activism -- Gendered Forms of Mothers' Activism -- Mother-Activism and Belonging to a Nation-State -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Mobilizing the Everyday Activist: Digital Communication Toward Action as the Women's March Advances from Grassroots Activism -- Literature Review -- Social Movement Organization Progression -- Collective and Connective Action -- Activist Resource Mobilization, Digital Activism, and Organizational Structure -- Digital Activism -- Feminist Agenda and the Women's March -- SMO Framing and Outcomes -- Method -- Findings -- Digital Activism as an Educational Tool -- Interaction and Connective Action -- Discussion -- Future Research -- References -- 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 -- Introduction -- Contextualizing Reddit and r/TwoXChromosomes. ; Safe Spaces, Online Places -- TwoXChromosomes: Moderation Policy and Practice -- Automoderation Tools -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: 'Intersectional, Queer Feminist Magazine' Made by White People? An Analysis of Digital Feminist Debates on Popular Intersectionality in Germany -- Popular Intersectionality -- Race and Whiteness in the German Context -- Zine_X -- Articulations of Intersectionality and Whiteness -- Intersectionality as a Buzzword -- Intersectionality and a Focus on Whiteness -- Critique of 'Bad' White Women and White Feminism -- 'Good' White Feminist Checklist -- Declaring White Privilege -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: "Ca_Va_Saigner" ("There Will be Blood"): Digital Menstrual Activism in France -- Introduction -- Protesting the Patriarchy: From Second-Wave Feminism to Contemporary Sociological Studies about Menstruation -- Feminist Digital Activism -- Methodology -- Destigmatizing Menstruation -- Menstrual Crankiness -- Angry Feminists -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 14: "Feminism in India" Framing #MeTooIndia: A Case of Digital Activism -- Literature Review -- Sexual Harassment: Definitions, Derivations, and Deviances -- #MeTooIndia: Context, Alternatives, and Doubts -- Structural Feminist Intersectionality -- Women and Digital Activism: FeminisminIndia.com -- Method -- Analysis -- #MeTooIndia Survivor Stories -- Use and Abuse of Power -- Systemic Blame, Shame, and Excuses -- Media Awareness (or Lack of It) -- Social Media Support and Solutions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 15: Conclusion -- Women's Digital Activism: Where Streets and Online Spaces Intersect -- Is the Internet a Safe Space for Women Activists? -- Recommendations for Future Research -- References.
• Titolo autorizzato: Women's Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change
• ISBN: 3-031-31621-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910736992903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change Series