Contents
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1. DIGITAL FEMINIST ACTIVISM: A LABOUR PERPECTIVE
Chapter 2. FEMINIST MOVEMENTS AND MEDIA ACTIVISM IN TURKEY
Chapter 3. METHODS
Chapter 4. DIGITAL MEANS OF FEMINIST COMMUNICATION
Technological infrastructure
Human capital
Financial resources
Mapping digital feminist activism
Feminist websites/blogs
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Instagram
Facebook
Youtube
Tiktok
Instant messaging platforms
Feminist podcasts
LinkedIn
Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 5. CREATIVE LABOUR: GENERATING FEMINIST CONTENT FOR DIGICAL MEDIA
Ethical principles
Feminist discursive resistance
Feminist memory and archiving
Tactics for spreading feminist voices
Hashtag campaigns
Strategic tagging for digital solidarity
Social media ads
Hierarchies of visibility
Algorithms and visibility
Censorship and self-censorship
Chapter 6. RELATIONAL LABOUR: WEAVING WEBS OF FEMINIST SOLIDARITY
“You’ll never walk alone”: Building communities for women solidarity
Bridging online and offline activism
Digital inequalities
Pushing back against patriarchal policies
Digilantism: “We don’t want male justice; we want real justice!”
Digital media as awareness-raising platforms
Feminist subjectivities
Chapter 7. AFFECTIVE LABOUR: CARE, EXHAUSTION, AND AFFECTIVE SOLIDARITY
“No silence. No fear. No obedience.”: from anger to hope
Anti-feminist backlash and online attacks
Coping mechanisms of feminist activists
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX
Biography
Gülüm Şener is a communication scholar working at the intersection of digital media, social movements, and feminist politics. She graduated from Galatasaray University, completed her MA at Stendhal University–Grenoble III, and earned her PhD in Communication Sciences at Marmara University. She was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics (2019–2020), researching digital feminist activism in Turkey. She has published widely on digital activism, social media, and digital gender-based violence, and is currently an associate professor in the New Media Department at 15 November Cyprus University.
