Patriarchy and Social Media

Younas, Fouzia; Naseem, Mustafa; Mustafa, Maryam

doi:10.1145/3392561.3394639

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“…If some users outrightly transgress gender norms online, others deploy various strategies to negotiate their entry into the digital public sphere. Women use fake names or pictures on Facebook to disguise their identity (Kirmani, 2020); upload pictures of their younger male family members as their own profile pictures (Rajakumar, 2012); purposefully post photos that do not suggest sexual agency (Mishra & Basu, 2014); prefer more private apps like WhatsApp over publicly oriented apps like Facebook (Schoemaker, 2015); participate in women-only online spaces (Younas et al, 2020); frequently change SIM cards (Huang, 2018); and use impression-management strategies such as eschewing identification, self-monitoring and censorship, deactivating accounts, rarely engaging in visual activities, friend management, and multiple profiles (Ali et al, 2020; Pearce & Vitak, 2016; Waltorp, 2015). Hurley (2021) shows how women engage in “veiled affordances” by using tools embedded in Instagram such as filters and avatars to obscure/substitute the body to post contextually appropriate images online.…”

Section: Digital Purdah In Muslim Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok

Kamran

2023

Social Media + Society

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Research on women’s social media practices in Muslim societies has primarily focused on middle-class or elite women, such as influencers, activists, and members of online communities. However, we know little about working-class women’s use of social media in Muslim contexts. Using ethnography and interviews, I analyze TikTok’s early popularity with working-class women in Pakistan and report three main findings. First, TikTok’s initial reception in Pakistan was fractured across class lines; whereas middle-class and elite women dismissed it, working-class women flocked to it, and TikTok became associated with a “low-class” femininity. Second, women engaged in a range of gender transgressions on TikTok. Third, women simultaneously crafted new practices of “digital purdah,” or veiling, on TikTok. I contribute to scholarship on digital purdah by, first, showing how women combine tools available on TikTok with other veiling strategies to conceal their identity while expressing their sexuality and second, arguing that “digital purdah” is compatible, rather than incongruous, with gender transgressions on TikTok. By showing how co-constituted class and gender dynamics shaped the simultaneous popularity and moral disapproval of TikTok in Pakistan, I argue for increased attention to class dynamics in studies of new social media platforms.

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Section: Digital Purdah In Muslim Contextsmentioning

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The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok

Kamran

2023

Social Media + Society

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“…Since new mothers’ outdoor activities are generally restricted, among other challenges at this stage of motherhood, a connection with peers on Facebook seems to be a solution to maintain networks beyond the home, and they may be a hub for emotional and practical help and support from their peers (De Los Santos et al, 2019; Manzo and Minello, 2020; Morse and Brown, 2021). In other contexts, online groups on Facebook are used as safe spaces where women engage in conversations on intimate and sensitive issues such as domestic violence or abortion, without men intervening in these groups (Dsane et al, 2022; Krisvianti and Triastuti, 2020; Younas et al, 2020). Those groups are used as spaces of trust, understanding, listening, and empowerment (Archer et al, 2021; Clark-Parsons, 2018).…”

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Online gathering in times of physical (im)mobility: Facebook practices of Malagasy mothers in France

Andrianimanana

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Based on a thematic content analysis of 813 in-group posts, the study presented in this article aimed to analyse first the implications of (social) immobility and lockdowns for vulnerable communities such as immigrants and mothers among them due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and then how Facebook groups helped these communities to cope with such challenges. The analysis was conducted within Le Groupe des Mamans Gasy de France – a Facebook group restricted to France-based Malagasy mothers. It revealed that the group was used as a safe space of benevolence amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, a space for self-acceptance and empowerment, and a space for Malagasy cultural and identity anchoring. These findings align with Leah Williams Veazey's ‘migrant maternal imaginaries’ and Laura Candidatu's ‘diasporic mothering’ conceptual frameworks.

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“…Therefore, we draw on this case study to suggest the limits of online support; while these spaces may be effective tools for addressing social, emotional, and informational isolation, these "prosocial" outcomes stop short of ameliorating the need for larger change. We point to work by Younas et al (2020) arguing such groups become "spaces where the rules of patriarchy are suspended" (p. 8) and that through support seeking they can "subvert their patriarchal constraints in their offline lives" (p. 8). We did not find evidence for this, but this line of thinking is interesting and we encourage future research to continue considering it.…”

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“…For gelins with access, social media can radically alter isolation and overcome barriers like restricted access to female relationships. Social media are described as revolutionary in combatting isolation for such women (Costa, 2016 [Turkey]; Kikuta, 2019 [Uzbekistan]; Younas et al, 2020 [Pakistan]). The ability for gelins to seek information and support has impact on her power, described below.…”

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Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan

Pearce¹,

Donohoe

Barta

et al. 2022

New Media & Society

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Online social support, with its novel opportunities for coping, is especially important for those experiencing isolation. Daughters-in-law in Azerbaijan are isolated and have inadequate support due to patriarchal and patrilocal norms, amplified when they experience infertility. This study considers an online community where supportive communication and resources are exchanged to mitigate infertility isolation. Using virtual ethnography and thematic analysis, three research questions related to different types of isolation are explored. We find support exchanges in this community can likely help women more efficiently and effectively cope with, and have more control over, the immediate stressor of infertility and associated uncertainty, which is profound given the lack of supportive resources they would otherwise have.

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Patriarchy and Social Media

Cited by 35 publications

References 56 publications

The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok

The Thermometer Broke! Digital Purdah, Class, and Gender Transgressions on Pakistani TikTok

Online gathering in times of physical (im)mobility: Facebook practices of Malagasy mothers in France

Online social support for infertility in Azerbaijan

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