Bodies on the Line vs. Bodies Online
A Feminist Phenomenology of Digitally Mediated Political Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12098784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sumru Atuk (Ithaca College, corresponding author), Alyson Cole (0000-0002-1911-6092, Department of Political Science, Queens College, New York, New York, USA) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-86 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s Studies in Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-1409 • E-ISSN: 2152-999X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07491409.2023.2297288 |
| OpenAlex | W4391594859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 78 |
Many scholars and commentators dismiss digitally mediated activism as an inadequate and inferior form of political participation. Such disparagements ignore accounts from feminist, disabled, BIPOC, and LGBTQ + activists, for whom social media has become an essential tool to raise awareness, advance political demands, and build coalitions. By centering their praxis and delineating how social justice–oriented social media activism (SJSMA) reconfigures political presence, we demonstrate that SJSMA constitutes consequential—indeed, embodied—political action, which remains undertheorized. This article clarifies how the definition of "the political" that privileges conventionally corporeal and public political activism is rooted in masculinist and ableist thinking, what we term manceptualism. Drawing on Black feminist media studies, crip, queer, and feminist theory, we offer a corrective to manceptualism by retheorizing embodied political action. Taking a phenomenological approach, our concept of marbled embodiment better accounts for our simultaneously online and offline lives and political labor
Action (physics · Art · Epistemology · Feminism · Media studies · Phenomenology (philosophy · Physics · Political action · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |