On 24 October 2017, the# MeToo hashtag began trending on Twitter. Although the phrase was initiated by African American women's rights activists Tarana Burke in 2006, it gained …
In 2017, the# MeToo movement garnered international attention when millions of people used it to share experiences of sexual violence via social media. Through an analysis of 570 …
V Trott - Feminist Media Studies, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In October 2017, millions of people shared public testimonials of sexual abuse and harassment in an expression of global vulnerability using the hashtag# MeToo. While# …
P Pain - New Media & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
As my analysis of the tweets and interviews with participants and activists of the resurgent# MeTooIndia movement in 2018 show, the work of elite activists and the risks they took were …
R Clark - Feminist media studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Hashtag feminism, or feminist activism that unfolds through Twitter hashtags, has become a powerful tactic for fighting gender inequities around the world. Feminist media research …
From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like# …
Scholars have argued that digital spaces are key sites for feminist activism, which can be seen in the emergence of “hashtag feminism,” or the use of social media hashtags to …
LC Stache - Feminist media studies, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
On Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, the other f-word appears to be in the middle of a resurgence. In September 2014, Emma Watson spoke at the UN and kicked off the# …
C Carter Olson - Feminist media studies, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract# BringBackOurGirls shows the potential that cyber-communities have for setting the agenda for mainstream media sources around issues that are life-changing for women and …