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- Challenges feminists to abandon social media as a platform for change
- Addresses the draw backs and dangers of social media for women
- Argues that social media enables men to censor and surveil feminist speech
Part of the book series: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI (SOCUSRA)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
To answer these questions, Megarry foregrounds an analysis of the practices and ethics of the historical Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), including the revolutionary characteristics of face-to-face organising and the development of an autonomous print culture. Centering discussions of time, space and surveillance, she utilises radical and lesbian feminist theory to expose the contradictions between the political project of women’s liberation and the dominant celebratory narratives of Web 2.0. This is the first book to seriously consider how social media perpetuates the enduring logic of patriarchy and howdigital activism shapes women’s oppression in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with intergenerational feminist activists from the UK, the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as well as archival and digital activist materials, Megarry boldly concludes that feminists should abandon social media and return to the transformative powers of older forms of women-centred political praxis. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Women’s and Gender Studies, Lesbian and Queer Studies, Social Movement Studies, Critical Internet Studies and Political Communication, as well as anyone with an interest in feminist activism and the history of the WLM.
Keywords
- social media movements
- politics of social media
- feminist communication
- gender in modern technology
- social movement studies
- feminist media studies
- critical internet studies
- radical feminism history
- women’s social media engagement
- liberal feminism
- postmodern/queer feminism
- radical feminist approaches
- digital feminism
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Authors and Affiliations
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School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Jessica Megarry
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Limitations of Social Media Feminism
Book Subtitle: No Space of Our Own
Authors: Jessica Megarry
Series Title: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60629-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60628-2Published: 28 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-60631-2Published: 28 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-60629-9Published: 27 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8523
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8531
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 324
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Human Geography, Digital/New Media, Politics and Gender