1st Edition

Gender-Based Violence and Digital Media in South Africa

By Millie Mayiziveyi Phiri Copyright 2024
136 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

136 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents a new paradigm for attending to gender-based violence (GBV) social media discourse among marginalised Black women in South Africa. Focusing on the intersections of television and social media, the study charts the morphing and merging of the “inside” of the soap opera and the “outside” of the real world, amid a rise in feminist social media activism. The analysis begins with... Read more

1.     Chapter One: Is digital feminist activism defining GBV?

2.     Chapter Two: Gender-Based Violence and Digital Technologies

3.     Chapter Three: African Feminist Ideology Politics and Gender Based-Violence

4.     Chapter Four: Gender Digital Activism Offline and Online GBV “Talk”

5.     Chapter Five: The Nature of GBV Social Media “Talk,” Language and Audience

6.     Epilogue

Biography

Millie Mayiziveyi Phiri was a University of Johannesburg postdoctoral fellow during 2020–2021 and specialises in research in digital technologies, freedom of expression, gender, and health research. An award-winning journalist with extensive experience working in Africa, she spearheaded the setting up of the first of its kind, Graca Machel Trust Pan African Network of Women Journalists.