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
● X
● Instagram
● Facebook
● Youtube
● Tiktok
● Instant messaging platforms
● Feminist podcasts
● LinkedIn
● Artificial Intelligence
Chapter 5. CREATIVE LABOUR: GENERATING FEMINIST CONTENT FOR SOCIAL 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
● Antifeminist backlash and online attacks
● Coping mechanisms of feminist activists
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
INDEX
Biography
Assoc. Prof. 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.
