Understanding Feminist Activism among Women: Resources, Consciousness, and Social Networks

Swank, Eric; Fahs, Breanne

doi:10.1177/2378023117734081

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“…Drawing on qualitative data, though, her analysis allows for no inference as to whether it is feminism that primarily drives them. Swank and Fahs (2017) find a feminist consciousness to be a significant predictor of becoming politically active in the women’s movement. As feminism is the one political attitude that focuses on reassuring women and other gender identities of their importance and political role, we expect feminist attitudes to affect efficacy.…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…This study argues that political attitudes impact political behavior—a notion that is, in fact, well-established (Almond & Verba, 1963; Verba & Nie, 1972; Verba, Schlozman, & Brady, 1995). Feminism as a political attitude is expected to influence individual political decisions since, as any other political orientation, it provides a framework through which to perceive and evaluate politics (Swank & Fahs, 2017; Turner & Maschi, 2015; Verba & Nie, 1972).…”

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Feminism! What Is It Good For? The Role of Feminism and Political Self-Efficacy in Women’s Online Political Participation

Heger

Hoffmann

2019

Social Science Computer Review

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Despite initial hopes for more egalitarian access to democracy, research has shown that political participation on the Internet remains as stratified as its offline counterpart. Gender is among the characteristics affecting an individual’s degree of political engagement on the Internet—even when controlling for socioeconomic status. To explain this gender divide, it is necessary to go beyond purely resource-based perspectives. Social cognitive theory allows for an analysis of how environmental factors shape cognitions, such as political efficacy, which, in turn, foster political participation. Political efficacy has been shown to be lower among women compared to men. This study explores determinants of gendered online political participation (OPP) by analyzing how self-efficacy mediates the effect of newly developed measures of three different waves of feminist attitudes on OPP. Based on a survey of 1,078 Internet users in Germany, 70% of them women, we analyze the effects of feminism on political efficacy and participation. Feminism is associated with higher internal political efficacy. Also, some feminist paradigms are shown to empower women to participate politically online. This effect, however, is not mediated through efficacy. This finding sheds light on opportunities to foster women’s political participation.

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Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminism! What Is It Good For? The Role of Feminism and Political Self-Efficacy in Women’s Online Political Participation

Heger

Hoffmann

2019

Social Science Computer Review

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“…Jakarta Feminist has an intertwined network of their members and affiliations as mentioned above. Meanwhile, a network according to Chafetz (2006) and Swank & Fahs (2017) is a form of "social senses" as a natural process of the emergence and development of a movement. Wasserman & Faust (1994) defined social networks as connections between social actors.…”

Section: Network Coordination and Social Network Analysis (Sna)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The process of disseminating ideas or information which is spread based on the understanding and type of movement (feminist movement with feminist ideas) through the interaction of friends, family, and in the context of social media ideas can be spread by the influential accounts (Tarrow 2011, Swank & Fahs 2017. The spreading of ideas and information runs spontaneously from person to person, place to place and the process occurs and is regulated through social networks among actors (Tarrow 2011).…”

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Digital feminist activism: Analyzing Jakarta Feminist as a collective identity, resources, network, information dissemination, and mobilization

Annisa

2021

JSD

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The use of social media for feminist activism in Indonesia has increased in decades. Some studies have mentioned digital feminist activism as the three intersectional relations of collective agenda, civic network, and digital infrastructure. To deepen, this study aims to analyze digital feminist activism works to organize collective identities, develop resources, coordinate networks, disseminate information, and mobilize social actors, in the case of Jakarta Feminist through a qualitative approach combined with social and textual network analysis. As a result, the Jakarta Feminist collective’s identity formed based on their identities, concerns, and defaces to the right of all Indonesian women, and other minorities group succeeded in developing resources in the form of moral, cultural, material, human, and network. Jakarta Feminist disseminated activism information by using social media features, and their members’ ties. Mobilized actors by conducting internal group planning, themes, and hashtags, boosted by social media personalities digital campaigns, individual and cross-organization. This study concluded that feminist digital activism running by the combination of their work in online and offline spheres. The cross-sectional interrelated of feminist activism to other issues, movements, and entities are interesting topics for future research.

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“…Drawing from Swank & Fahs (2017) and Ito, et.al. (2015), digital activism is understood as three intersectional relations of collective agenda, civic network and digital infrastructure.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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The Rise of Indonesian Feminist Activism on Social Media

Parahita

2019

Komunikasi: Ikatan Sarjana Komunikasi Indonesia

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Some studies have discussed digital activism and politics in Indonesia. However, studies investigating the phenomenon of Indonesian feminist activism on social media have yet to be conducted. On the other hand, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and also other online platforms have become a fertile site for the public to aspire their views and mobilize people for some causes, including social media accounts voicing feminist perspectives in Indonesian online sphere. This study uncovers the actors behind and goals of feminism activists who create accounts on social media such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. The method of the study is snow-ball interviews, content analyses of Instagram posts, and close observation on public activities of the important figures within the movement on their social media account, as well as their writings. This study found that Indonesian digital feminism activists have started with the agencies of the young women of Indonesia in the circle of senior feminists in Jakarta, as well as feminist emerging from the Islamist network. Basic literacy and digital literacy have facilitated the activists with capability to articulate and share their ideas. Eventually, the activists initiate the movement on social media which functions as a means of creating digital safe place, sharing personal stories, providing online discussion forum, promoting marches and offline discussion events, responding to criticisms and oppositional standpoints, as well as conducting and publishing research. AbstrakSejumlah kajian telah mendiskusikan tentang aktivisme digital dan politik di Indonesia. Akan tetapi, kajian yang mencermati fenomena aktivisme feminis Indonesia pada situs jejaring sosial masih terbatas. Padahal, Facebook, YouTube dan Instagram, juga platform online lainnya telah menjadi ladang subur bagi tumbuhnya pandangan dan upaya mobilisasi warga untuk sejumlah sebab, termasuk sejumlah akun media sosial yang menyuarakan perspektif feminis pada ranah online Indonesia. Kajian ini mengungkap jejaring aktor dan tujuan bersama para aktivis feminis yang menciptakan akun-akun pada situs jejaring sosial seperti Facebook, Instagram dan YouTube. Metode studi ini adalah wawancara snow-ball, analisis isi unggahan-unggahan di Instagram, dan pengamatan lekat aktivitas publik yang dilakukan oleh figur-figur penting pada media sosial mereka, berikut karya-karya tulisan mereka. Kajian ini menemukan bahwa aktivisme feminis digital Indonesia bermula dari agensi para wanita muda Indonesia dalam lingkungan feminis senior di Jakarta, maupun tumbuh dari jejaring gerakan Islam. Literasi dasar dan literasi digital memfasilitasi para aktivis tersebut dengan kemampuan untuk mengartikulasikan dan berbagi ide-ide mereka. Pada akhirnya, para aktivis menginisiasi gerakan pada sosial media yang berfungsi untuk menjadi ruang 105 aman digital, berbagi kisah-kisah pribadi, menyediakan forum diskusi online, mengajak turun ke jalan dan acaraacara diskusi offline, merespon pandangan kritis dan oposisional terhadap gerakan mereka, menyelenggarak...

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Understanding Feminist Activism among Women: Resources, Consciousness, and Social Networks

Cited by 19 publications

References 45 publications

Feminism! What Is It Good For? The Role of Feminism and Political Self-Efficacy in Women’s Online Political Participation

Feminism! What Is It Good For? The Role of Feminism and Political Self-Efficacy in Women’s Online Political Participation

Digital feminist activism: Analyzing Jakarta Feminist as a collective identity, resources, network, information dissemination, and mobilization

The Rise of Indonesian Feminist Activism on Social Media

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