Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real

ISBN-13: 9781032197913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str.

Cuklanz, Lisa M.

Opis

This book examines contexts, practices, and activism on issues of gender violence at the intersections of online and public spaces. Through individual case studies, the volume considers the interplay between the virtual worlds of online spaces including social media, physical spaces and bodies.

Spis treści

Part 1: Contexts;  1. Introduction,  Lisa Cuklanz;  2. From Street to Screen: On the Right to Public Space in the Age of Algorithms, Cláudia Álvares;  3. Scrutinizing Sexual Persecution in Digital Communication through the Field of Haptics, Soumen Mukherjee & Leslie Ramos Salazar;  Part 2: Practices;  4. Female Corporealities of Blame and Invasion in Cases of Sexual and Sexist Cyberbullying in the Basque Region, Estibaliz Linares Bahillo, Maria Silvestre Cabrera, & Raquel Royo Prieto;  5. Busting Trolls: Examining the Hate Campaign Against Actress Leslie Jones, Benjamin Brojakowski & Gabriel Cruz;  6. Drivers Against the Machine: Reproductive Labor and Reproductive Justice in a Phantom Public, Kasturi Ray & Julietta Hua;  7. "Suddenly We Were the Story:" Women Journalists, the #MeToo Movement, & Online Misogyny in India, Paromita Pain;  Part 3: Activism;  8. #RhodesWar: Contesting Institutional Silencing in the Struggle against Rape in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Gavaza Maluleke;  9. Rectifying Gender Violence within Religious Communities through Hashtag Activism, Kristin M. Peterson;  10. "You Can Start a Movement With a Hashtag:" An Exploration of Student-Led Social Media Activism, Candace Parrish, Lorena Briones Winkler, Avina Ross, Tremayne Robertson, & Alyssa Glace Maryn;  11. Using Social Media Tools to Contribute to and Challenge Gendered Violence, Victoria Carty

O autorze

Lisa M. Cuklanz, PhD, is a Professor of Communication at Boston College. She has published several books and many other publications in the areas of media studies and gender studies. Her research interests center on violence in media.