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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.
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.
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
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.
"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. The Trumpian turn will go down as a
key defining moment in feminism's development in the digital
sphere. Much of this feminism, fuelled by fury and expressed
online, has met with a backlash which, ironically, makes use of the
same social media tools. In Digital Feminist Activism this dynamic
is
admirably charted by Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose and
Jessalynn Keller, for the first time in a book-length study. ... We
need books such as Digital Feminist Activism to help us navigate
the digital "real"
world we now almost all inhabit." -- Emma Rees, Times Higher
Education
"It's tempting to conclude that we live in an era in which we have
reached peak misogyny. Then news breaks of another high-profile
male sex offender exculpated, lauded, or even promoted and this
conclusion seems perversely naive. In the face of what increasingly
seems like the mother of all backlashes against feminist gains,
Digital Feminist Activism offers a timely, rigorous, and
finely-grained investigation of the multitude of ways women and
girls
are using digital and networked media - a medium so often used
against them - to push back with a resounding "NO MORE". In
exploring not just the dangers but also the drudgery of
contemporary feminist activism,
this excellent volume explores not just what digital feminism is or
does but how it feels. It is essential reading not just for those
interested in how feminism is playing out in digital domains, but
in the future of the movement itself." -- Emma A. Jane, author of
Misogyny Online: A Short (and Brutish) History
"Digital Feminist Activism breaks politically urgent new ground as
the first book-length study to examine how girls and women respond
to-and challenge-rape culture in the digital era. This book is a
timely feminist call-to-digital-arms, reminding us all of the
powerful socio-political transformations that can come from
collective feminist organizing and resistance." -- Tanya Horeck,
Anglia Ruskin University
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