Tag: #MeToo

#MeToo: Breaking taboos, raising awareness, empowering and uniting victims around the world
Identity and Online Advocacy

#MeToo: Breaking taboos, raising awareness, empowering and uniting victims around the world

Rhabiya Cadamally22 Comments

RhabiyaCadamally_MeToo_BreakingTaboosRaising-awareness_EmpoweringAndUnitingvictimsaroundtheworld-3Download Abstract: The #MeToo movement made headlines by drawing attention and raising awareness to the pervasiveness that sexual harassment and abuse is a phenomenon that occurs globally in different settings whereby previously there was a lack of understanding of the underlying impact on victims. This paper delves into the importance of online advocacy through hashtag activism by focusing on Read more […]

Online Networks and Social Change

The Fourth Wave: How Social Media has Revolutionised Feminism

Lauren Anderson22 Comments

By Lauren Anderson ABSTRACT The evolution of Web 2.0 has drastically revolutionised the ways in which society functions, having an irreversible impact on the practices of modern activism (Storer & Rodriguez, 2020). Consequently, Feminism has undergone a shift that heavily features the use of social media and digital technologies, with this ‘fourth wave’ being explicitly defined by this use of the internet and online networks in Feminist activism (Schuster, 2013; Jackson, 2018; Pruchniewska, Read more […]

Identity and Online Advocacy

TikTok’s Bimbo Feminism: Feminist Activism in the Digital Age.

Grace Cayley20 Comments

Abstract As our use and understanding of social media evolve, so does its utilisation as a tool for advocacy and activism. Social media has been utilised by many as a tool for activism and advocacy and has provided a platform for social change. While some have criticised social media activism as a form of apathetic and performative political participation called “slacktivism” (Morozov 2009), this paper argues that even behaviours deemed as ‘slacktivist’ retain the potential for enacting Read more […]