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Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments: When the Virtual Becomes Real book cover

1st Edition

Gender Violence, Social Media, and Online Environments When the Virtual Becomes Real

Edited By Lisa M. Cuklanz Copyright 2023
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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This book examines contexts, practices, and activism on issues of gender violence at the intersections of online and public spaces. Through individual case studies, the volume considers the interplay between the virtual worlds of online spaces including social media, physical spaces and bodies, and the ways in which offline and online dimensions of experience can serve as motivators for,... Read more

List of Contributors

Part 1: Contexts

1. Introduction

Lisa Cuklanz

2. From Street to Screen: On the Right to Public Space in the Age of Algorithms

Cláudia Álvares

3. Scrutinizing Sexual Persecution in Digital Communication through the Field of Haptics

Soumen Mukherjee & Leslie Ramos Salazar

　

Part 2: Practices

4. Female Corporealities of Blame and Invasion in Cases of Sexual and Sexist Cyberbullying in the Basque Region

Estibaliz Linares Bahillo, Maria Silvestre Cabrera, & Raquel Royo Prieto

5. Busting Trolls: Examining the Hate Campaign Against Actress Leslie Jones

Benjamin Brojakowski & Gabriel Cruz

6. Drivers Against the Machine: Reproductive Labor and Reproductive Justice in a Phantom Public

Kasturi Ray & Julietta Hua

7. "Suddenly We Were the Story:" Women Journalists, the #MeToo Movement, & Online Misogyny in India

Paromita Pain

　

Part 3: Activism

8. #RhodesWar: Contesting Institutional Silencing in the Struggle against Rape in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Gavaza Maluleke

9. Rectifying Gender Violence within Religious Communities through Hashtag Activism　

Kristin M. Peterson

10. "You Can Start a Movement With a Hashtag:" An Exploration of Student-Led Social Media Activism

Candace Parrish, Lorena Briones Winkler, Avina Ross, Tremayne Robertson, & Alyssa Glace Maryn

11. Using Social Media Tools to Contribute to and Challenge Gendered Violence

Victoria Carty　

Index

Biography

Lisa M. Cuklanz, PhD, is a Professor of Communication at Boston College. She has published several books and many other publications in the areas of media studies and gender studies. Her research interests center on violence in media.

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