238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

Women’s existence in the digital world has been closely studied by scholars and attracted the attention of activists worldwide. Women, like men, early on saw the Internet as a potentially powerful and liberating tool that would help them find groups or communities with similar aims and interests. Today there is more awareness of the deleterious effects of unconstrained online speech such as... Read more

1. Introduction: women in the digital world

Anya Schiffrin, Karolina Koc-Michalska, and Michelle Ferrier

2. Digital microaggressions and everyday othering: an analysis of tweets sent to women members of Parliament in the UK

Emily Harmer and Rosalynd Southern

3. Insta(nt)famous? Visual self-presentation and the use of masculine and feminine issues by female politicians on Instagram

Charlotte Brands, Sanne Kruikemeier and Damian Trilling

4. Women learn while men talk?: revisiting gender differences in political engagement in online environments

Darren Lilleker, Karolina Koc-Michalska and Bruce Bimber

5. It’s a man’s (online) world. Personality traits and the gender gap in online political discussion

Simone Abendschön and Gema García-Albacete

6. The power of code: women and the making of the digital world

Ulrike Klinger and Jakob Svensson

7. Trouble in programmer’s paradise: gender-biases in sharing and recognising technical knowledge on Stack Overflow

S. J. Brooke

8. Digital divide and marginalized women during COVID-19: a study of women recently released from prison

Matt Blomberg, Darcey Altschwager, Hyunjin Seo, Ellie Booton and Maxine Nwachukwu

9. Online cultural backlash? sexism and political user-generated content

Isabel Inguanzo, Bingbing Zhang and Homero Gil de Zúñiga

10. Let’s (re)tweet about racism and sexism: responses to cyber aggression toward Black and Asian women

Paulina d. C. Inara Rodis

11. Beacons over bridges: hashtags, visibility, and sexual assault disclosure on social media

Kristen Barta 

12. Evidentiary activism in the digital age: on the rise of feminist struggles against gender-based online violence

Fuyuki Kurasawa, Elisabeth Rondinelli and Gulay Kilicaslan

Biography

Anya Schiffrin is Director of the Technology, Media and Communications specialization at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She writes on journalism and development, the media in Africa and the extractive sector. Her most recent book is Media Capture: How Money, Digital Platforms and Governments Control the News.

Karolina Koc-Michalska is Professor at Audencia Business School and Affiliated Researcher at CEVIPOF Sciences Po Paris, France, and University of Silesia, Poland. She studies the strategies of political actors in the online environment and citizens’ political engagement. She employs a comparative approach focussing on the United States and European countries.

Michelle Ferrier is Founder of TrollBusters and currently serves as president of the International Association of Women in Radio & Television. She is the executive director of the Media Innovation Collaboratory and an internationally recognized, award-winning technologist, journalist, and scholar in digital journalism, technology, media innovation, diversity, and entrepreneurship.