Gender in the Digital Sphere

Representation, Engagement, and Expression
Herausgeber: Mitra, Barbara; Mirza, Mehreen; Young, Sharon

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Produktbeschreibung

This book builds on existing research in relation to gender in the digital world, focusing on representation, engagement and expression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781538155684
• ISBN-10: 1538155680
• Artikelnr.: 69077462

Autorenporträt

Barbara Mitra is senior lecturer in Media and Culture at the University of Worcester. Sharon Young is course leader in English Literature at the University of Worcester. Mehreen Mirza is associate dean in the Faculty of Arts, Society and Professional Studies at Newman University, Birmingham.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Appendices
Introduction: Representation, Engagement and Expression, Sharon Young
Chapter 1: The relationship between social media, body image and gender
drawing on interviews with teenagers, Barbara Mitra
Chapter 2: Girls will be Boys and Boys will be Girls: It's a mixed up,
muddled up, shook up world, Mark Vicars and Janine Arantes
Chapter 3: "Well yes Sir, I'm Fat, and Yes, Sometimes I'm a Bitch":
Empowering Representations of Fat Identity in Plus-Size Women's Fashion
Blogs, Hanna Limatius
Chapter 4: Empowering or silencing: The #MeToo campaign in retrospect,
Jemma McCarron and Barbara Mitra
Chapter 5: To Scroll, Share and Sign: Young Adults and Digital Feminist
Activism, Rebecca Feasey
Chapter 6: The Social Media of Loose Women: Taking the Temperature of
Popular Feminism, Ruth Garland
Chapter 7: Hoping Women: A Case Study on Aspirant Bloggers in Turkey,
Melike Asli Sim
Chapter 8: "We need men to be Men": Constructions of Hegemonic Masculinity
in Online Responses to the 2019 We Believe Gilette Advertisement, Federica
Formato and Amanda Iveson
Chapter 9: Gender and New Words in an Online World, Jenny Lewin-Jones
Conclusion: Reflection, Mehreen Mirza and Barbara Mitra
About the Contributors
Index