Full Description
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.
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
