{"id":5259,"date":"2025-04-23T21:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5259"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:36:26","slug":"digital-activism-amplifying-social-justice-efforts-or-perpetuating-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5259\/digital-activism-amplifying-social-justice-efforts-or-perpetuating-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Activism: Amplifying Social Justice Efforts, or Perpetuating Inequality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/pexels-rdne-6257630-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft autoexcerpt_thumb  wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/>\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis essay explores the paradox of digital activism in the age of social media, where platforms designed to empower global movements often marginalise the very voices they aim to amplify. It adopts a qualitative, critical approach through discourse analysis and a case study of the #GirlsLikeUs movement. The findings show that trans activists actively resist digital erasure by strategically mobilising hashtags, using digital platforms to assert identity and build community in the face <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/ioa\/5259\/digital-activism-amplifying-social-justice-efforts-or-perpetuating-inequality\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This essay explores the paradox of digital activism in the age of social media, where platforms designed to empower global movements often marginalise the very voices they aim to amplify. It adopts a qualitative, critical approach through discourse analysis and a case study of the #GirlsLikeUs movement. The findings show that trans activists actively resist digital erasure by strategically mobilising hashtags, using digital platforms to assert identity and build community in the face &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":535,"featured_media":5264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ioa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/535"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5259"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5273,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5259\/revisions\/5273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}