New Digital Feminist Interventions - Speaking Up, Talking Back

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Giuliana Thomas Sorce
• Assisted by: Giuliana Sorce (Editor), Tanja Thomas (Editor), Thomas Tanja (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032795010
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3279501-0
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Ethnic Studies, History, Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, The arts, Humanities, Communication Studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gay & Lesbian studies, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics