Young women, late modern politics, and the participatory possibilities of online cultures

Harris, Anita

doi:10.1080/13676260802282950

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“…Writers like Pamela Aronson (2003), Shelley Budgeon (2001Budgeon ( , 2011, Anita Harris (2008aHarris ( , 2008bHarris ( , 2010, Heather Jacques and Lorraine Radtke (2012), and Deborah Stevenson, Christine Everingham, and Penelope Robinson (2011) examine how young women engage with, adapt to, and enact the new forms of femininity offered by a neoliberal culture that prioritizes individual responsibility, personal autonomy, and notions of empowerment through consumption, and that disavows ongoing structural inequalities and oppression. They point to the fundamental tensions between feminist and neoliberal approaches that women inevitably find hard to reconcile.…”

Section: Theorizing New Femininitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weaving a Tapestry, Compassionately: Toward an Understanding of Young Women’s Feminisms

Lewis¹,

Marine²

2015

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Section: Theorizing New Femininitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Weaving a Tapestry, Compassionately: Toward an Understanding of Young Women’s Feminisms

Lewis¹,

Marine²

2015

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“…The fact that women outnumber men on social media sites is well documented (Blakley 2012, p. 342;Duggan and Brenner 2013;Clifford 2014). While recent figures suggest that this divide is beginning to decrease, with more men using social networking sites such as Reddit, Twitter, and LinkedIn (Duggan and Brenner 2013), there is an understanding that women across all age groups generally spend more time on and/or have more use for the majority of social media sites (Harris 2008;Blakley 2012;Schuster 2013). This poses some challenges to both classic and contemporary feminist discourse, and women's dominance of social media can be read as both a continuation of and a challenge to their historical exclusion from 'public' political and cultural space.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The rise of social media is often identified as a site that promotes the production of narcissistic and highly individualistic subjects whose performance of the self is consistent with the celebration of neoliberal values (Giroux 2015). Moreover, as the use of social media is gendered (Blakley 2012;Clifford 2014;Duggan and Brenner 2013;Harris 2008;Miller 2016;Schuster 2013), concern is often expressed in popular and academic discourse about the consequences of young women's digital practices (Sanghani 2014;Sales 2016). There is a strong desire to determine whether these practices are inherently oppressive or empowering to women (Bates 2016;Hodkinson 2017;Mesch 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Personal is Political: Assessing Feminist Fundamentals in the Digital Age

Rogan

Budgeon

2018

Social Sciences

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Abstract:The 'personal is political' has long been recognised as the definitive slogan of second-wave feminism but can it still inform our understanding of the contemporary practice of feminism? Questioning the importance of this claim now invites us to critically reflect upon the trajectory Western feminism has followed in light of the efforts made by the Women's Liberation movement to politicise formerly unquestioned aspects of social relations. In this paper, the significance of this feminist slogan will be assessed by locating it within two broadly defined historical periods. Firstly we identify the critical work performed by the ideas expressed in the slogan in the early years of the 1970s and then assess their continued relevance within the context of the early 21st century. Drawing upon the empirical analysis of young women's experience of and relationship to feminism via their engagement with social media in Britain, this research critically assesses digital spaces as places where young women explore their personal experiences. We aim to understand how this may constitute a contemporary form of feminist practice consistent with the claim that 'the personal is political'.

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“…Creative and social uses of the Internet often represent new forms of activism in participatory communities that are missing from conventional channels of political communication (Harris, 2008). Unregulated public spaces provide opportunities for youth to communicate with others and express interests and concerns outside of traditional political mechanisms.…”

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confidence: 99%

Digital worlds and civic opportunities: connecting online and offline activism in Lithuania

Boberienė¹

2013

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ABSTRACT:Although democratization via new media technologies has received considerable attention in recent years, empirical research is lacking. The opportunities offered by Internet engagement must be studied at the user-level, looking at individuals' own grassroots participation. Lithuania serves as an interesting case study, as civic culture is developing simultaneously with the spread of new technologies. The purpose of this study was to examine the types of Internet participation and the civic attitudes that contribute to offline engagement in organizations, local community activities, and political discussions among Lithuanian university students. A 2012 web-based survey of 580 18-to 30-year-olds from five major Lithuanian universities provided evidence that strong associations exist between Internet engagement and structural features of society, civic attitudes, and civic activism offline. Internet activities, centred on social networking, information exchange, and political expression, provide opportunities for creative construction of communities and involvement in civil society. Such online experiences play an important role in shaping young adults' social environments, where they experiment with interests and identities. By choosing the ways that they engage online, youth are active agents in their civic development.

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Young women, late modern politics, and the participatory possibilities of online cultures

Cited by 125 publications

References 20 publications

Weaving a Tapestry, Compassionately: Toward an Understanding of Young Women’s Feminisms

Weaving a Tapestry, Compassionately: Toward an Understanding of Young Women’s Feminisms

The Personal is Political: Assessing Feminist Fundamentals in the Digital Age

Digital worlds and civic opportunities: connecting online and offline activism in Lithuania

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