“I SEE YOU, I BELIEVE YOU, I STAND WITH YOU”: #MeToo and the performance of networked feminist visibility

Clark-Parsons, Rosemary

doi:10.1080/14680777.2019.1628797

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“…In her study of #MeToo movement, for example, Rosemary used the Twitter Streaming API to collect nearly 30,000 hashtagged tweets (Clark-Parsons, 2019). She initially approached the hashtag as a networked counterpublic, acknowledging the underprivileged nature of the sexual violence survivors who shared their experiences under the hashtag.…”

Section: Identifying Methodological Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Margins as Methods, Margins as Ethics: A Feminist Framework for Studying Online Alterity

Clark-Parsons

Lingel

2020

Social Media + Society

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Prevailing theories of marginalized media position the work of resistance as beneath or less than the institutions against which resistance works, raising a number of methodological and ethical challenges for research on online alterity. We offer a margins-as-methods approach for studies of social media on the margins, directing critical attention to the theoretical, ethical, and political implications of positioning subsets of social media users as peripheral to an imagined center. Drawing on theories of feminist reflexivity and our own fieldwork experiences, we articulate the margins-as-methods approach through two sets of practices: deconstructing the power politics behind theories of alterity and identifying how these power politics shape every stage of the research process. We conclude by offering guiding questions for researchers to reflect on as they evaluate the methodological and ethical challenges specific to their projects. The margins-as-methods approach and the reflexive questions it raises build accountability for how our research process may reinscribe the very power relationships that we, alongside our interlocutors, work to contest.

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Section: Identifying Methodological Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Margins as Methods, Margins as Ethics: A Feminist Framework for Studying Online Alterity

Clark-Parsons

Lingel

2020

Social Media + Society

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“…Clark-Parsons (2019) argues that the key potential of hashtag feminism lies in its transformative politics of visibility: networking through a shared tag makes it possible to illustrate the systemic nature of social injustice on a global (social) media stage. Thereby, hashtag feminism can at times spark 'real' social change instead of being mere virtue signalling online (Clark-Parsons, 2019).…”

Section: Social Media: Feminist Activism and Popular Misogynymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…‘Hashtag feminism’ that works to counter gender inequalities with social media hashtags such as #MeToo, #mencallmethings, #YesAllWomen, #NotOk and #EveryDaySexism, has become a widely recognized phenomenon within feminist research (Bowles Eagle, 2015; Clark, 2014, 2016; Horeck, 2014; Khoja‐Moolji, 2015; Meyer, 2014; Rentschler, 2014, 2015; Williams, 2015). Clark‐Parsons (2019) argues that the key potential of hashtag feminism lies in its transformative politics of visibility: networking through a shared tag makes it possible to illustrate the systemic nature of social injustice on a global (social) media stage. Thereby, hashtag feminism can at times spark ‘real’ social change instead of being mere virtue signalling online (Clark‐Parsons, 2019).…”

Section: Social Media: Feminist Activism and Popular Misogynymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social media and hyper‐masculine work cultures

Maaranen

Tienari

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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In this article, we aim to contribute to research on social media as an arena for gender relations and inequality by elucidating how social media and hyper-masculine work cultures are interconnected. We focus empirically on the fiery social media commentary #MeToo sparked on Wall Street in New York. While the possibility of this movement backfiring has received relatively little research attention, we argue that online reactions illustrate the unpredictable nature of social media movements and their reception in organizations. Our analysis shows how they work to naturalize gender differences and polarize opinions, often with highly suspect humour. Focusing on interconnections of hyper-masculine work cultures, on the one hand, and popular misogyny gaining ground online, on the other, offers ways to critically explore the constitutive role of social media as a medium in shaping contemporary workplaces and society. More research on social relations and technology is needed in organizations that are less obviously hyper-masculine but deeply gendered nevertheless.

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“…There is an individual culture of network participation, which is reflected in the sense of belonging, identity and group through code appropriation and semantic indexing [20]. Also, through a hashtag structure, online media are able to visibly aggregate individual testimonies and expressions into a networked collective narrative, allowing the dissemination [38] of specific understandings of particular identities, namely gender and age.…”

Section: Identities Collective Narratives and Online Engagementmentioning

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Mapping Intergenerational Masculinities on Instagram

Amaral

Santos

Brites

2020

Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Technology and Society

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Gender identities and roles do not stand alone but rather evolve while intersecting with other traits, namely age, resulting in cross and hybrid (gender and age) identities. Media are one of the pivotal formative spaces where audiences learn role models and the way they should express and behave: Therefore, media environments influence the way one perceives and understands age and gender identities as well as expresses them publicly. Media also promote (inter)generational contexts given that different age groups organize their technological experience in their own specific ways and interact with different other generations. This article explores how masculinities are represented in the digital realm, shedding light on intergenerational dynamics and collective hashtag narratives. Specifically, this article will analyse collective narratives on Instagram through a hashtag stream, focusing specifically on representations of masculinities and how different generations interact and represent how to be, behave and express as "a man".

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“I SEE YOU, I BELIEVE YOU, I STAND WITH YOU”: #MeToo and the performance of networked feminist visibility

Cited by 140 publications

References 20 publications

Margins as Methods, Margins as Ethics: A Feminist Framework for Studying Online Alterity

Margins as Methods, Margins as Ethics: A Feminist Framework for Studying Online Alterity

Social media and hyper‐masculine work cultures

Mapping Intergenerational Masculinities on Instagram

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