Hashtag activism: tactical maneuvering in an online anti-mandatory hijab movement

Basmechi, Farinaz; Barnes, Donna A.; Heydari, Mohammad Mehdi

doi:10.1080/02732173.2021.2024467

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“…Women launched a campaign against the government by taking off their hijabs, wearing white colors, dancing and singing in streets and redefining their traditional identity patterns through social media channels. Protests were even reverberated in Europe and hundereds of people gathered in European cities to give support the protestors in Iran and chanted "women, life and freedom" and carried photographs of Mahsa Amini to denounce 1 "White Wednesdays" (WW) is a campaign name against compulsory hijab which has provoked women to wear white hijab/ scarf every wednesday to show their unity against wearing compulsory hijab (Basmechi, 2019).…”

Section: Political Opportunities: Amini Protests As a Women's Stance ...mentioning

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Amini Protestoları: Devlet ve Toplum Arasında Yeni Bir Mutabakat Sözü

Çalhan¹

2023

İran Çalışmaları Dergisi

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This article aims to contextualize Iran’s recent protests, following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s so-called morality police. The protests have amounted to be one of the most serious challenge to the regime’s uninterrupted legitimacy. The protests have been recorded as the longest standing one compared to the White Wednesdays Movement. Protesters have taken over the streets across the country to stand up for requesting equal rights for women. The attempt has been argued by critics and academics as posing a serious security challenge to presence of Islamic Republic. This courageous experiment could spur more significant developments in Iran over the coming days and weeks and the protesters may pose a major challenge to Iran’s entrenched leadership, however prediction of whether the survival of the government is at stake or not, is still very much debatable issue. In the article, distinctive features and reasons of Amini protests and the effects of launching dialogue channels among different segments of the society have been analyzed through main components of political process theory. In this framework of op-eds, reviews and reports which have been published in Iran national and international media platforms were interpreted.

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Amini Protestoları: Devlet ve Toplum Arasında Yeni Bir Mutabakat Sözü

Çalhan¹

2023

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“…It has been argued that hashtags are used to fight against policies that are detrimental to certain sections of a population. For example, a study found that the anti-mandatory hijab movement in Iran emerged and grew by the tactical innovations that relied on hashtags (Basmechi et al, 2022). Although the movement started and grew well at the beginning, the researchers noted that the movement was undercut by Iranian government's tactical adaptations, as the government ramped up its hijab regulations, thereby forcing the movement to freeze as its founders were unable to surmount the repressive tactics and policies (Basmechi et al, 2022).…”

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“…For example, a study found that the anti-mandatory hijab movement in Iran emerged and grew by the tactical innovations that relied on hashtags (Basmechi et al, 2022). Although the movement started and grew well at the beginning, the researchers noted that the movement was undercut by Iranian government’s tactical adaptations, as the government ramped up its hijab regulations, thereby forcing the movement to freeze as its founders were unable to surmount the repressive tactics and policies (Basmechi et al, 2022). Hashtags have been found to enable individuals to personalise elements of a group expressions and to counter mainstream representation, such as #Periodsarenotaninsult and #Renziscappa (Haymond, 2020; Saporito, 2021).…”

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Social Media as Solidarity Vehicle During the 2020 #EndSARS Protests in Nigeria

Uwalaka

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This study interrogates how protesters learned about and planned the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Analyses of survey data collected in 2020 during the protests and content analysis of tweets demonstrate that protesters who used Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to learn about and plan the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria and reported to be 30 years and older are more likely to report joining on the first day of the protest. Data showed a relationship between protesters’ perceived ease of use of a social media platform and their use of such platforms during protests. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

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Hashtag feminism: identity politics and the politicization of social change in Iran

Nosrat Kharazmi,

Ali Abadi

2024

Feminist Media Studies

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Hashtag activism: tactical maneuvering in an online anti-mandatory hijab movement

Cited by 6 publications

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Amini Protestoları: Devlet ve Toplum Arasında Yeni Bir Mutabakat Sözü

Amini Protestoları: Devlet ve Toplum Arasında Yeni Bir Mutabakat Sözü

Social Media as Solidarity Vehicle During the 2020 #EndSARS Protests in Nigeria

Hashtag feminism: identity politics and the politicization of social change in Iran

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