Women s Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change

This book showcases the online activism of women's 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 women's struggles on other political and environmental issues, such as the campaign against the radical right-wing in Austria. Moreover, the book's chapters highlight the genuine complexity of the efforts of women activists who are not only challenging the patriarchal order within male-controlled digital platforms but are also challenging the hegemonic voices within the women's movements. The book's case studies attest to the proliferation of digital campaigns aimed not only against discrimination of women but against discrimination based on their color, age, ethnicity, and nationality. The internet helps them to voice their agenda and strive for social change as well as to create both connective and collective identities.

Explores the challenges and obstacles facing women activists in the digital age Includes rich case studies of women using the internet to facilitate social change around the world Puts forward women's activism and use of social media as an arena of collective action

Autorentext

Carmit Wiesslitz PhD, is Lecturer in the Department of Politics & Communications at Hadassah Academic College, Israel. She is the author of Internet democracy and social change: The case of Israel, published in 2019 by Lexington Books. She studies new media, democracy and civil society, and women's digital activism.

Klappentext

This book showcases the online activism of women s 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 women s struggles on other political and environmental issues, such as the campaign against the radical right-wing in Austria. Moreover, the book's chapters highlight the genuine complexity of the efforts of women activists who are not only challenging the patriarchal order within male-controlled digital platforms but are also challenging the hegemonic voices within the women's movements. The book s case studies attest to the proliferation of digital campaigns aimed not only against discrimination of women but against discrimination based on their color, age, ethnicity, and nationality. The internet helps them to voice their agenda and strive for social change as well as to create both connective and collective identities.

Inhalt

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 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.- Chapter 3: I'm 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 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 Women's Online Activism on South Africa'sTwittersphere.- 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 Iran's Mourning Mothers.- Chapter 10: Mobilizing the Everyday Activist: Digital Communication Toward Action as the Women's 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 Reddit's 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.