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Gender in the Digital Sphere

Representation, Engagement, and Expression

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Gender in the Digital Sphere

Representation, Engagement, and Expression

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The digital sphere, especially social media, is perceived as a new form of public sphere where individuals can share and circulate information and participate in formal and informal democratic processes albeit in the context of echo chambers and confirmation biases. Gender in the Digital Sphere explores how we represent, express, and engage with the digital world via the lens of gender. Each chapter touches on one of the three pillars of engagement, expression, or representation in relation to the digital world, and themes range from social media, body image and identity to feminist activism to gender and digital narratives. The contributors raise important questions about the impact of digital media in everyday life and make connections between theory and everyday accounts of gender and technology.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Appendices
Introduction: Representation, Engagement and Expression, Sharon Young
Chapter 1: The relationship between social media, body image and gender drawing on interviews with teenagers, Barbara Mitra
Chapter 2: Girls will be Boys and Boys will be Girls: It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, Mark Vicars and Janine Arantes
Chapter 3: “Well yes Sir, I’m Fat, and Yes, Sometimes I’m a Bitch”: Empowering Representations of Fat Identity in Plus-Size Women’s Fashion Blogs, Hanna Limatius
Chapter 4: Empowering or silencing: The #MeToo campaign in retrospect, Jemma McCarron and Barbara Mitra
Chapter 5: To Scroll, Share and Sign: Young Adults and Digital Feminist Activism, Rebecca Feasey
Chapter 6: The Social Media of Loose Women: Taking the Temperature of Popular Feminism, Ruth Garland
Chapter 7: Hoping Women: A Case Study on Aspirant Bloggers in Turkey, Melike Asli Sim
Chapter 8: “We need men to be Men”: Constructions of Hegemonic Masculinity in Online Responses to the 2019 We Believe Gilette Advertisement, Federica Formato and Amanda Iveson
Chapter 9: Gender and New Words in an Online World, Jenny Lewin-Jones
Conclusion: Reflection, Mehreen Mirza and Barbara Mitra
About the Contributors
Index

Product details

Published 28 Mar 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 236
ISBN 9781538155684
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Illustrations 9 Tables
Dimensions 240 x 159 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Barbara Mitra

Anthology Editor

Sharon Young

Anthology Editor

Mehreen Mirza

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