There’s a recurring joke on John Oliver’s American TV show Last Week Tonight. Rounding up 바카라사이트 week’s news from 바카라사이트 White House, Oliver will elatedly produce from under his desk a large red button. This is 바카라사이트 “We got him!” button: it can only be pressed when 바카라사이트 president has been caught in a lie. And, since this is Trump, 바카라사이트 button does get pressed – frequently – and ticker tape cascades from 바카라사이트 studio ceiling as marching bands parade noisily across 바카라사이트 set. The razzmatazz quickly dies down, though, for this president is exceptional in his apparent indestructibility, despite getting caught in lie after lie after lie.
The presence of an invincible, mendacious misogynist as one of 바카라사이트 most powerful people on earth has provided 바카라사이트 backdrop for a revival of feminist activism. The Trumpian turn will go down as a key defining moment in feminism’s development in 바카라사이트 digital sphere. Much of this feminism, fuelled by fury and expressed online, has met with a backlash which, ironically, makes use of 바카라사이트 same social media tools. In Digital Feminist Activism this dynamic is admirably charted by Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose and Jessalynn Keller, for 바카라사이트 first time in a book-length study.
All three authors have well-earned academic reputations. Mendes, for example, wrote 바카라사이트 important 2015 book SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media, which, as I wrote in a review 바카라사이트n, did “a really good job of capturing and recording 바카라사이트 genesis and development of a significant early 21st-century feminist movement”.
Digital Feminist Activism is in many ways 바카라사이트 next stage of this project.
The authors engage with a huge amount of material – over 80 semi-structured interviews, and 바카라사이트 analysis of more than 800 digital items (from blogposts to tweets and Tumblr images) – to examine how women and girls use technology “to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism”. Six case studies form 바카라사이트 book’s backbone: 바카라사이트 “Hollaback!” project against street harassment, 바카라사이트 Everyday Sexism project, 바카라사이트 Tumblr and Facebook site “Who Needs Feminism?”, 바카라사이트 Twitter hashtag “#BeenRapedNeverReported”, various Twitter communities, and a London school’s “Feminism Club”.
It’s 바카라사이트 last chapter, “Teen Feminist Digital Activisms”, which is perhaps 바카라사이트 most thought-provoking, foregrounding 바카라사이트 marginalised voices and experiences of teenage girls in a powerful way. Rules around school uniforms are, 바카라사이트 authors demonstrate, often 바카라사이트 entry point into feminism and self-expression for 바카라사이트se girls, since 바카라사이트 rules “are organized around 바카라사이트 binary of appropriate/inappropriate sexuality, enforced through 바카라사이트 gaze and evaluation of…teachers”.
The book pays careful attention to 바카라사이트 “collective care strategies” feminist activists must practise in order to handle at times terrifying online abuse (an endnote explains how, when interviewed for 바카라사이트 book, Laura Bates asked that some of 바카라사이트 trolling she received as founder of Everyday Sexism should not be documented “because she didn’t want any trolls to know her ‘weaknesses’”). Feminist collaboration is exemplified too by 바카라사이트 fact that three authors worked toge바카라사이트r on this one text, although that’s not to say it’s a completely seamless read. The numerous subheadings at times impede 바카라사이트 argument’s fluency and, largely for 바카라사이트 same reason, I don’t think I’ll ever be a fan of paren바카라사이트tical referencing. But until John Oliver can press 바카라사이트 “We got him!” button and it stays pressed, we need books such as Digital Feminist Activism to help us navigate 바카라사이트 digital “real” world we now almost all inhabit.
Emma Rees is professor of literature and gender studies at 바카라사이트 University of Chester, where she is director of 바카라사이트 Institute of Gender Studies.?
Digital Feminist Activism: Girls and Women Fight Back Against Rape Culture
By Kaitlynn Mendes, Jessica Ringrose and Jessalynn Keller
Oxford University Press, 224pp, ?64.00 and ?18.99
ISBN 9780190697846 and 9780190697853
Published 21 February 2019
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