Young feminists use social media in order to respond to rape culture and to hold accountable the purveyors of its practices and ways of thinking when mainstream news media, police and school authorities do not. This article analyzes how social networks identified with young feminists take shape via social media responses to sexual violence, and how those networks are organized around the conceptual framework of rape culture. Drawing on the concept of response-ability, the article analyzes how recent social media responses to rape culture evidence the affective and technocultural nature of current feminist network building and the ways this online criticism re-imagines the position of feminist witnesses to rape culture.
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Disruptive Technology
Social Media from Modiano to Zola and Proust
Elizabeth Emery
In his acceptance speech for the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, Patrick Modiano made special mention of his relationship to social media. He modestly described himself as a “temporal prisoner,” part of an “intermediate generation” nostalgic for the
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 76–89
'0 Feet Away'
The Queer Cartography of French Gay Men's Geo-social Media Use
Dominique Pierre Batiste
Why do gay men utilise geo-social media applications such as Grindr and Scruff? Social media scholarship describes technological mediations and changes to social space and communities; however, there are theoretical gaps concerning what geo-social technology means for gay men. I suggest that gay men's ability to see other gay men, via geo-social media, reveals the queer cartography of any geographical location. This re-mapping of social space proves the public sphere less heteronormative than purported, cultivates community between gay men who may initiate face-to-face contact utilising geo-locative technology, and allows gay men to interact with one another outside of specifically gay spaces. This research is based in Toulouse, France, and adds to scholarship concerning French gay men's resistance to heteronormativity. This research also holds global significance concerning subjugated communities' uses of geo-social technology in their resistance against dominant cultures.
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 111–132
Love Is Culture
Al-Hubb Thaqafa and the New Frontiers of Sexual Expression in Arabic Social Media
Shereen El Feki, Elise Aghazarian, and Abir Sarras
Al-Hubb Thaqafa ('Love is Culture') is a new Arabic social media platform, providing accurate and unbiased information on love, relationships and sexuality. Its website, Facebook page, Twitter feed and YouTube channel offer visitors unprecedented opportunities for interaction, exchanging ideas and opinions not only with experts affiliated with Al-Hubb Thaqafa, but also with fellow users; for all the high hopes of greater freedom of expression in the wake of the 2011 uprisings, such opportunities remain rare, in both politics and personal life, in most countries of the Arab region. Although its content, and language, were initially designed for an Egyptian audience, Al-Hubb Thaqafa has attracted Arabic-speaking visitors from around the world; its combined platforms have been visited more than nine million times since its launch in March 2014.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 1–18
Dustin William Louie
The appearance of social media has enabled the recruitment of Indigenous 1 populations into sexual exploitation. As recently as the last decade, social media lacked substantial influence on recruitment, but today it is routinely employed by those
Miley, What’s Good?
Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda, Instagram Reproductions, and Viral Memetic Violence
Aria S. Halliday
On social media, the number of people or, rather, IP addresses that distribute a video, an article, or an image constitutes its popularity. Usually, the spreading of these items—their virality—is based on shock value. In a discussion of virality and
Terms of Silence
Weaknesses in Corporate and Law Enforcement Responses to Cyberviolence against Girls
Suzanne Dunn, Julie S. Lalonde, and Jane Bailey
barriers it poses. Second, we discuss the increased risks faced by girls who subvert gender norms in online spaces. Third, we interrogate existing reporting options available to girls. We argue that current practices by social media companies and law
“Stumbling Upon Feminism”
Teenage Girls’ Forays into Digital and School-Based Feminisms
Crystal Kim and Jessica Ringrose
indelibly sexist. In these and other recent examples, teen feminists are troubling what Sinikka Aapola et al. (2005) think of as engrained constructions of youth, particularly girls, as lacking in political agency. Social media are opening spheres of
Cutting the Face
Kinship, State and Social Media Conflict in Networked Jordan
Geoffrey Hughes
whether the break with older publics, antagonisms, emotions and modes of sociality is as stark as such testimonies suggest. These criticisms of young people’s social media usage have come at a time when my interlocutors’ and my social media feeds teem with
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Articles
- Pages:
- 49–71
“There’s nothing makeup cannot do”
Women Beauty Vloggers’ Self-Representations, Transformations, and #thepowerofmakeup
Michele White
My Pale Skin’s “YOU LOOK DISGUSTING” anti-bullying video, which is from July 2015, critiques cultural expectations about femininity. My Pale Skin describes her experiences posting images with and without any makeup to social media sites. The
