Full Description
This book builds on existing research in relation to gender in the digital world, focusing on representation, engagement and expression. The contributors deal with a wide range of issues that address three specific themes: social media, body image and identity; feminist activism; and gender and digital narratives. In doing so, they raise important questions about the impact of digital media in everyday life, and make connections between theory and empirical accounts of gender and technology.
Contents
List of Tables and Appendices
Introduction: Representation, Engagement and Expression, Sharon Young
Chapter 1: The relationship between social media, body image and gender drawing on interviews with teenagers, Barbara Mitra
Chapter 2: Girls will be Boys and Boys will be Girls: It's a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, Mark Vicars and Janine Arantes
Chapter 3: "Well yes Sir, I'm Fat, and Yes, Sometimes I'm a Bitch": Empowering Representations of Fat Identity in Plus-Size Women's Fashion Blogs, Hanna Limatius
Chapter 4: Empowering or silencing: The #MeToo campaign in retrospect, Jemma McCarron and Barbara Mitra
Chapter 5: To Scroll, Share and Sign: Young Adults and Digital Feminist Activism, Rebecca Feasey
Chapter 6: The Social Media of Loose Women: Taking the Temperature of Popular Feminism, Ruth Garland
Chapter 7: Hoping Women: A Case Study on Aspirant Bloggers in Turkey, Melike Asli Sim
Chapter 8: "We need men to be Men": Constructions of Hegemonic Masculinity in Online Responses to the 2019 We Believe Gilette Advertisement, Federica Formato and Amanda Iveson
Chapter 9: Gender and New Words in an Online World, Jenny Lewin-Jones
Conclusion: Reflection, Mehreen Mirza and Barbara Mitra
About the Contributors
Index
