Gender in the Digital Sphere
eBook - ePub

Gender in the Digital Sphere

Representation, Engagement, and Expression

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Gender in the Digital Sphere

Representation, Engagement, and Expression

About this book

The digital sphere, especially social media, is perceived as a new form of public sphere where individuals can share and circulate information and participate in formal and informal democratic processes albeit in the context of echo chambers and confirmation biases. Gender in the Digital Sphere explores how we represent, express, and engage with the digital world via the lens of gender. Each chapter touches on one of the three pillars of engagement, expression, or representation in relation to the digital world, and themes range from social media, body image and identity to feminist activism to gender and digital narratives. The contributors raise important questions about the impact of digital media in everyday life and make connections between theory and everyday accounts of gender and technology.

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Yes, you can access Gender in the Digital Sphere by Barbara Mitra,Sharon Young,Mehreen Mirza in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Tables
  5. Introduction: Representation, Engagement, and Expression
  6. Chapter 1: The Relationship between Social Media, Body Image, and Gender Drawing on Interviews with Teenagers
  7. Chapter 2: Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls: It’s a Mixed Up, Muddled Up, Shook Up World
  8. Chapter 3: “Well Yes, Sir, I’m Fat, and Yes, Sometimes I’m a Bitch”: Empowering Representations of Fat Identity in Plus-Size Women’s Fashion Blogs
  9. Chapter 4: Public Sphere, Social Media, and the #MeToo Campaign
  10. Chapter 5: To Scroll, Share, and Sign: Young Adults and Digital Feminist Activism
  11. Chapter 6: The Social Media Feeds of Loose Women: Taking the Temperature of Popular Feminism
  12. Chapter 7: Hoping Women: A Case Study on Aspirant Bloggers in Turkey
  13. Chapter 8: “We Need Men to Be MEN”: Constructions of Masculinities in Online Responses to the 2019 “We Believe” Gillette Advertisement
  14. Chapter 9: Gender and New Words in an Online World
  15. Conclusion: Reflections
  16. About the Contributors