Girls Make Media

Kearney, Mary Celeste

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“…It follows feminist theorists who posit that women's autobiographies and the sharing of personal experience take precedence over generic political and social discourse, including that about a "collective" voice (Jayne Armstrong 2004). Indeed a focus on cyberactivism, which has at its core blogs, social media, and multimedia performance, echoes the third wave of feminism's focus on practices of cultural production (Leslie Heywood 2006;Mary Celeste Kearney 2006;Kristin Schilt & Elke Zobl 2008). Young Arabs created their own cyberactivist culture linked by their participation and activism in social media networks.…”

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In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women

Radsch

Khamis

2013

Feminist Media Studies

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This feminist, qualitative study sheds light on how young Arab women used cyberactivism to participate in the wave of political and social transformations widely known as the Arab Spring. It argues that these activists leveraged social media to enact new forms of leadership, agency, and empowerment, since these online platforms enabled them to express themselves freely and their voices to be heard by the rest of the world, particularly the global media. This resulted in a multidimensional personal, social, political, and communicative revolution. This study is based on in-depth, personal interviews with more than twenty young Arab women citizen journalists, bloggers, and activists from Arab countries that witnessed political upheaval.

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In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women

Radsch

Khamis

2013

Feminist Media Studies

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“…Noteworthy, in this context is the emergence of girls (media) studies, which focus on (gender) scripts embedded in media texts, produced by (teenage) girls. For a good overview of this research field, see Kearney (2006Kearney ( , 2011. 3.…”

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Let's talk about sex: audience research of Flemish teenage television viewers and their view on sexuality

Damme

Biltereyst

2013

Journal of Youth Studies

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Teenage sexual identity is shaped within a complex cultural landscape in which the issue of protecting the 'innocent' (children/teens) from sexually suggestive images is high on the public agenda. Intimate relationships and sexuality have entered the public domain and are presented on the screen, offering audiences possible roles to play in reality. Trepidation of teenagers being 'corrupted' by sexualised media has urged many scholars to investigate this issue. However, sexualised, mediatised representations can also empower and emancipate teens who are often savvy, active and critical media consumers. We aim to study how young audiences (aged 14Á19) in Flanders consume fictional sexual scripts, and how these scripts can help in the development and articulation of sexual identity. A qualitative approach was taken using 57 teenagers divided into eight, in-depth focus groups. Sexual norms and values, as well as the sexual double standard and sexual scripts were discussed. Talking about and watching televised sex has become less of a taboo among teens, but this does not imply their permissiveness is unlimited. Traditional norms and values regarding relationships and sexuality are still highly valued, and although most respondents are tolerant towards casual sex by others, they distance themselves from such behaviour.

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“…Thus, riot grrrls not only encouraged girls to be media producers, but motivated girls to create alternative representations of girlhood that challenged those created by the commercial culture industries (Kearney 2006). Based upon these two characteristics of riot grrrl, we can see why the movement was likely appealing to Gevinson as a girl cultural producer who was often not taken seriously as a fashion blogger due to both her age and gender (Keller 2013).…”

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“…While scholars have noted the ways in which many girls of colour and those from lower socioeconomic status were excluded from riot grrrl 20 years ago (Kearney 2006), there has been little commentary on the ways in which Gevinson's race and class privilege allow her to perform identity -including a riot grrrl influenced feminist identity -in ways that other girls cannot do easily (Wald 1997;Kearney 2006).…”

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Girl power's last chance? Tavi Gevinson, feminism, and popular media culture

Keller

2015

Continuum

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Girls Make Media

Cited by 82 publications

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In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women

In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women

Let's talk about sex: audience research of Flemish teenage television viewers and their view on sexuality

Girl power's last chance? Tavi Gevinson, feminism, and popular media culture

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