Women''s Voices in the Bluewave Resistance on Twitter - Cruel Optimism

With a focus on Twitter's BlueWave Resistance community of women, Cynthia A. Davidson argues, using rhetorical and political analysis, that political tweeting is an optimistic act--but frames this through engaging Lauren Berlant's claim in Cruel Optimism that what we most desire is also an impediment to our thriving.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Reading Berlant as a Lens for Twitter Culture, An Introduction
Chapter 2: Attraction, Resistance, and Reconstituted Trauma on Twitter
Chapter 3: Affective Exhaustion, Online "Gestures," and the Appeal of the Impasse
Chapter 4: The Noise and the Narratives
Chapter 5: Women, Noise, and Narrative in the BlueWave Resistance
Chapter 6: Overview and Specific Stories of Women-Identified Accounts in the BlueWave
Chapter 7: Conclusion: If/Tweet
References
About the Author

About the author

By Cynthia A. Davidson

Summary

With a focus on Twitter's BlueWave Resistance community of women, Cynthia A. Davidson argues, using rhetorical and political analysis, that political tweeting is an optimistic act--but frames this through engaging Lauren Berlant's claim in Cruel Optimism that what we most desire is also an impediment to our thriving.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia A. Davidson
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9781793633361
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-336-1
• No. of pages: 206
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Gender studies: women, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Gender studies: women and girls