The platformization of feminism: The tensions of domesticating Instagram for activist projects

AM Barbala - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores how contemporary feminism has become increasingly platformized,
focusing on how Scandinavian feminist opinion leaders negotiate Instagram as an integral …

Networked feminism in a digital age—mobilizing vulnerability and reconfiguring feminist politics in digital activism

SJ Vachhani - Gender, Work & Organization, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In what ways can we understand the productive tensions and complexities of digital feminist
activism? This paper explores the increase of networked feminism, which focuses attention …

“Beyond BAME, WOC, and 'political blackness'”: diasporic digital communing practices

F Sobande, M Basu - Communication, Culture & Critique, 2023 - academic.oup.com
What forms of opacity and excess propel Black and South Asian digital diasporic feminist
cultures of commoning and communing? This article explores digital expressions of retreat …

Meme-ifying Data: The Rise of Public Health Influencers on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter during Covid-19

S MacDonald, W Brianna - Journal of Digital Social Research, 2023 - jdsr.se
This article argues for the importance of the memetic tactic of bricolage within contemporary
social media science communication for its capacity to curate and distill approachable …

Dadkhah mothers of Iran, from Khavaran to Aban: digital dadkhahi and transnational coalitional mothering

S Khosravi Ooryad - Feminist Theory, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article offers a theoretical account of the figure of the 'Dadkhah mother', the 'justice-
seeking mother', by highlighting her historical, political and feminist significance in …

“A series of little high fives”: mental health and digital habituation in women's Instagram practices

F Gravel-Patry - Feminist Media Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Headlines about the negative impact of Instagram on women's mental health abound in
public conversations. Yet, in a neoliberal context of limited care services and gendered …

Learning mutual aid: food justice public pedagogy and community fridge organizing online

C Gordon - Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This essay analyzes how participants within the community fridge movement use social
media to facilitate informal learning and organize improvisational food justice through …

South Asian Americans and anti-Black racism: critically reflexive racialization as an anti-racist vernacular discourse

A Mudambi - Communication, Culture & Critique, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this study, I propose the concept of critically reflexive racialization as a vernacular
discourse through which nondominant groups engage critical reflexivity in exploring and …

Technocultural worldings: dialectical dynamics in contemporary media landscapes

M Liinason, OC Norocel - Feminist Media Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In this piece, which frames the special issue “Technocultural worldings,” we build on
previous editions of commentary and criticism in this journal. We propose a theoretically …

Beauty as duty: a study of the feminist movement “rejecting beauty duty” on RED

J Zhan - Feminist Media Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT RED, as a platform primarily focused on visual imagery to drive consumption,
has been a bastion of pseudo-feminism in China, propagating standardized beauty ideals …