SlutWalk

Mendes, Kaitlynn

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“…Social media can play an important role in feminist activism and facilitate the organization of feminist campaigns that promote discussions of gender issues and counter misogynistic attitudes and behaviors (Eckert & Steiner, 2016). Much research around social media feminist organizing has examined grassroots activism, like the work by Mendes (2015) on the Slutwalk movement. Studies have also focused on hashtag campaigns (Jackson et al, 2020) such as #MeToo (Quan-Haase et al, 2021) or #BringBackOurGirls (Rivers, 2017), feminist blogging and content curation (Eckert, 2018;Mendes et al, 2019;Shaw, 2012), and private social media groups (Pruchniewska, 2019).…”

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Women-Focused Nonprofit Organizations and Their Use of Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Characterizing a Gendered Pandemic Through Information, Community, and Action

Nau

Quan‐Haase

McLaughlin

2023

Social Media + Society

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This study investigates how gender-focused nonprofit organizations used Twitter to advocate on behalf of women and girls during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic. We collected tweets from five nonprofits including Canadian Women’s Foundation, Anova, UN Women, National Organization for Women, and Planned Parenthood. Through thematic analysis, we identified nine gender-related themes: safety, physical health, mental health, labor, economic situation, intersectional concerns, leadership, the role of gender in pandemic response and recovery plans, and supporting women’s organizations. A subsequent content analysis revealed that women’s safety, labor, and economic situation were the most prominent themes. It was also revealed that safety and intersectional concerns were raised by all organizations. We applied the theoretical framework of microblogging functions which distinguishes between information-, community-, and action-oriented tweets. Most of the tweets in our study were informational, much fewer were associated with calls to action and community engagement. Our analysis also revealed relationships between the microblogging functions and the tweets’ content themes. We found that informational tweets addressed women’s safety, physical health, economic situation, and the role of gender in pandemic response and recovery plans, while community-oriented tweets addressed women’s labor, leadership, and supporting women’s organizations. Finally, each microblogging function elicited different levels of user engagement on Twitter, with the community-oriented function receiving the largest number of “likes” compared with the information- and action-oriented functions. Our study adds to the growing body of research on social media use by feminist groups and provides novel theoretical insights by expanding the microblogging framework.

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confidence: 99%

Women-Focused Nonprofit Organizations and Their Use of Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Characterizing a Gendered Pandemic Through Information, Community, and Action

Nau

Quan‐Haase

McLaughlin

2023

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Feminist Media Activism

Mendes

Dikwal-Bot

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication

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Throughout history, feminists around the world have long rich histories of harnessing the power and potential of media to engage in activism, spread feminist ideology, mobilize campaigns, and combat patriarchal, racist, colonial, or other oppressive ideologies. This entry will take a historical approach by highlighting some of these creative, subversive, and, at times mainstream while at other times “hidden,” practices in the Global North and Global South. As a result of the recent explosion of feminist activism that harnesses the power of digital technologies, the bulk of this entry will provide an overview of this scholarship. It will highlight the specific ways that digital technology is used for feminist consciousness raising, mobilization, giving publicity to offline protests, making visible the material consequences of gender marginalization, and promoting campaigns around sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. However, while digital technologies are often celebrated for revitalizing feminist activism, we consider the ways preexisting power dynamics create imbalances in the visibility and circulation of feminist voices and ideas. Finally, we highlight the tendency for digital media to produce new forms of exclusion defined by the speed, frequency, scope, and access to digital communication.

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Feminism in the News

Kurvinen

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication

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The role of US mainstream media in representing feminism and the women's movement has interested scholars since the early years of second‐wave feminism. However, less is known about how feminism has been represented and negotiated in European countries, particularly non‐anglophone countries. This entry briefly describes how feminism has been covered in European news media by focusing on print media in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the Nordic countries from the late 1960s until the present day. It shows that certain images of feminism and feminists have traveled across national borders and through time, but media representations have also had local specificities. Additionally, the media strategies adopted by feminist activists have had an effect on the portrayal of feminism, as have newsroom practices, and journalists who take an active role in promoting feminism.

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SlutWalk

Cited by 100 publications

References 72 publications

Women-Focused Nonprofit Organizations and Their Use of Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Characterizing a Gendered Pandemic Through Information, Community, and Action

Women-Focused Nonprofit Organizations and Their Use of Twitter During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Characterizing a Gendered Pandemic Through Information, Community, and Action

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