New Digital Feminist Interventions

Speaking Up, Talking Back
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-79501-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

This volume proposes “speaking up” and “talking back” as new theoretical access points for studying feminist activism in digital spaces.

Drawing on the influential work of bell hooks, it highlights social justice interventions by feminist/queer/decolonial actors, groups, and collectives who recover the digital as a space for activist organizing and campaigning. In presenting a variety of sociocultural issues, such as gender violence, queer discrimination, or migrant hostility, the book centers empowerment practices in their digital forms, showcasing interventions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas—thereby critically examining the conditions for marginalized voices to speak up, talk back, and be heard in digital publics. In focusing on activist practices, formats, experiences, and scholarship, the contributions analyze many facets of digital feminist contention, including resistance storytelling, hashtag activism, grassroots journalism, or diaspora podcasting.

This international and interdisciplinary volume will interest students and scholars of Media and Communication, Social Movements and Activism, Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, and Race and Ethnicity.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sorce, Giuliana

Thomas, Tanja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Introduction

Section I: Activist Practices

1. Narratives of Ethical Witnessing: The Politics of Feminist Anger in Digital Activism

2. Resilience, Support, and Feminist Counterpublics in Online Debates of Gender-Based Violence in Latin America

3. Turkey’s Queer Digital Diaspora in Times of Multiple Crises

Section II: Activist Formats

4. Creating Solidarity in Decolonial Counterpublics: Digital Feminist Grassroots Journalism in Puerto Rico

5. Rights Feminism, Historiography, and Chinese Queer Women’s Digital Filmmaking in We Are Here

Section III: Activist Experiences

6. Exploring the Dimensions and Limits of Digital Feminist Labor in Turkey

7. Unleashing Voices: How Uncensored Feminist Podcasts Broaden the Discourse on Gender Issues in Mainland China

8. Digital Feminism as Feminized Labor? Exploring the Intensity and Facets of Doing Feminism Online

Section IV: Activist Scholarship

9. Talking Back to Pandemic Narratives: Facebook Groups as Digital ‘Homeplaces’ for Queer Digital Acts of Resistance and Worldmaking

10. Disruptions or Continuations? Feminist Approaches to Big Data/AI in Communication and Media Studies

Über Autor(innen)

Giuliana Sorce (PhD, Penn State University) is a postdoctoral scholar in the Institute of Media Studies at the University of Tubingen, Germany. She researches digital media and society with a specialization in activism and social movements. She is the editor of Global Perspectives on NGO Communication for Social Change (Routledge, 2022) and currently serves her second term as chair for the Communication and Democracy section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Her research has appeared in journals such as Media and Communication, Convergence, Journalism Practice, or Environmental Communication.

Tanja Thomas (PhD, University of Tubingen) is Professor of Media Studies with a focus on Transformations in Media Cultures at the University of Tubingen, Germany. She researches media and migration; memory culture in the media society; right-wing violence, racism and media; participation and protest from a gender, and memory and cultural (media) studies perspective. Her projects on media, migration, and memory have received multiple grants from German and international research foundations (Volkswagen Foundation, German Research Foundation, and the German Israeli Foundation). She is co-editor of Media and Participation in Post- Migrant Societies (2022). Since 2013, she co-edits the interdisciplinary journal feministische studien.