#JusticeforLiz: Power and Privilege in Digital Transnational Women's Rights Activism

Higgs, Eleanor Tiplady

doi:10.1080/14680777.2015.1008746

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“…Similarly, #JadaPose, #StandWithJada, and #JusticeForJada on twitter and other social media in 2014 stood for soliciting justice for Jada, a sixteen-year-old rape-victim black teen [94]. Another significant movement, #JusticeforLiz, shook the internet and social media in 2013 and sought justice for Kenyan teen rape victim pseudonymously tagged as 'Liz' [45].…”

Section: Online Gender Movements and Protestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Unmochon’: A Tool to Combat Online Sexual Harassment over Facebook Messenger

Sultana

Deb

Bhattacharjee

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Women in the global south often seek justice of online harassment through unavailing the harassers and the screenshots of their sent harassment texts and visual contents on social media. However, women often experience further backlash with the argument that these screenshots may have been manipulated. We studied these issues through a survey with 91 female Facebook users and interviews with 43 females and other stakeholders from Bangladesh and designed 'Unmochon'-a tool that helps women collect such harassment texts and visual contents from Facebook Messenger, share with their intended group of users and prove their authenticity. Our user-study with 48 participants revealed various challenging aspects of seeking justice on social media using such technologies and the assumptions they are built on. Based these findings, we further discuss how technologies should be designed to address women's harassment on social media in such a complex social setting.

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Section: Online Gender Movements and Protestsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Unmochon’: A Tool to Combat Online Sexual Harassment over Facebook Messenger

Sultana

Deb

Bhattacharjee

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…The techno-optimist tradition of social media scholarship (Castells, 2011; Guha et al, 2019) has emphasised on the characteristics of social media and has witnessed these platforms as enablers and equalisers of communication, where individuals can voice out their opinions and experiences freely and in a relatively safe environment. The feminist hashtag movements like #MeToo and others such as #YesAllWomen, #WhyIStayed and #Losha are discussed in the media studies literature as movements bringing together women from all walks of life to share their stories and supporting each other for a cause, in these cases against sexual abuse (Higgs, 2015, Kay & Banet-Weiser, 2019; Mendes et al, 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

I Refused to Say #MeToo: Negotiating Between Individual Agency and ‘Imagined’ Platform Constraints

Dixit

2021

Journal of Creative Communications

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This article describes how ‘imagined’ constraints of the social media platform by its users stand crucial while actualising platform affordances and exercising individual agency. I use the term ‘imagined constraints’ to explain how constraints of the media platform are speculated by my participants while they negotiate between the materiality of the platform and social environment to formulate their restricted agency. Here, I use a recent example of feminist hashtag movement ‘#MeToo’ as a case in point. Previous literature addressing feminist hashtag activism and other social movements influenced by social media platforms mainly discuss the participatory potential of these platforms. However, empirical investigation into the factors leading to non-participation in movements like #MeToo has hardly captured any scholarly attention. To address this existing gap in the literature, this article analyses embodied experiences shared through in-depth interviews by 11 Indian women who made a conscious decision of not participating in the #MeToo movement. I discuss my results taking into consideration theories of ‘imagined platform affordances’ and shaping of individual agency in terms of activist participation. I discuss that ‘Imagined constraints’ of the social media platform are chiefly shaped by an individual’s analysis of their sociocultural environment in which media platforms exist. These imagined constraints of a platform lead to constitute a ‘constrained agency’ of an individual. I argue that, while we theorise the potential of social media platforms in facilitating hashtag feminist movements like #MeToo, we must take into consideration the formulation of ‘imagined constraints of the platform’ by its users, as it stands crucial in guiding their participatory action.

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“…A possible bias in online activism could originate from a skew towards the opinions of elite participants and to reflect the views of elites in education, caste, and class (Losh 2014). While the elite groups and Western feminists certainly ought to stand in solidarity with marginalised women’s rights activists, they must ensure that their transnational support and engagement go beyond the mere use of a hashtag (Higgs 2015). This can happen by engaging in virtual and non‐virtual initiatives informed by both understanding of the global implications of local actions, and contextualisation of practices in favour of local actions rather than globalised incentives.…”

Section: Transnational Solidarity and Non‐western Women’s Plightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Does activism still suffer from the same problematic of intersectional power privileges that feminism has been criticised for? Do such campaigns risk reinforcing damaging stereotypes and the white saviour complex (Higgs 2015) by using discourses that portray women of colour as in need of dire help from outside – predominantly the West – or even deflecting the attention away from the attempts of the local organisers and placing it elsewhere? Or can the digital media praxis of women of colour, their hashtag and Tumblr activism, blogging and live journalling, broaden and radically redefine the very field of feminism?…”

Section: Transnational Solidarity and Non‐western Women’s Plightsmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Her Shoes: Transnational Digital Solidarity With Muslim Women, or the Hijab?

Rahbari

2019

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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Transnational solidarity has been taken up by feminist scholars, social scientists and activists who discuss or practice solidarity with the plights of different individuals, groups, and communities. This paper addresses transnational solidarity by investigating World Hijab Day, a campaign that shows solidarity with Muslim women by encouraging non‐Muslim women to temporarily wear the hijab. By analysing online activities and social media of the campaign, and investigating public debates surrounding it, the paper explores the centrality of the hijab as the unifying symbol. Results include reflections on the representations of female Muslimness, the hijab and gender roles in the campaign and insights on implications and possibility of transnational digital solidarity. Using the data, and drawing on literature of transnational solidarity, significance and implications of transnational activism in different online and digital geographies of solidarity are interrogated. The conclusion discusses the values and limits of solidarity activism that is based on notions or symbols of similarity or sameness and the role cyberspace plays in transnational reach of the campaign, and in creating online proximity.

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#JusticeforLiz: Power and Privilege in Digital Transnational Women's Rights Activism

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

‘Unmochon’: A Tool to Combat Online Sexual Harassment over Facebook Messenger

‘Unmochon’: A Tool to Combat Online Sexual Harassment over Facebook Messenger

I Refused to Say #MeToo: Negotiating Between Individual Agency and ‘Imagined’ Platform Constraints

In Her Shoes: Transnational Digital Solidarity With Muslim Women, or the Hijab?

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