Negotiating the challenge of #ChallengeAccepted
Transnational digital flows, networked feminism, and the case of femicide in Turkey
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21740752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristin Comeforo (0000-0003-3566-5136, University of Hartford, corresponding author), Berna Görgülü (0009-0009-7246-7615, University of Hartford) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-230 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-8593 • E-ISSN: 1535-8593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15358593.2022.2096414 |
| OpenAlex | W4293690540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In summer 2020, social media feeds were flooded with black-and-white selfies of women, shared under the hashtag #ChallengeAccepted. While the images quickly became ubiquitous, the reason for them did not. This case study analyzes #ChallengeAccepted from the perspective of feminists in Turkey, who began posting the hashtag/selfie sequence on July 26, 2020. We performed a thematic analysis on datasets of 5,510 Turkish-language tweets, 28,527 English-language tweets, and transcripts from 26 semistructured interviews with women in Turkey who participated in the hashtag campaign and sought to answer the question: How do transnational digital flows impact local and global uptake of feminist ideals? We found three stages of the hashtag, through which meaning was negotiated, defended, and re-established. Applying W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg’s “logic of connective action,” we saw #ChallengeAccepted as operating as a “personal action frame,” which we argue provided a refractive effect that changed the trajectory of the discourse. Our findings suggest that other cases of hashtag activism would benefit from imagining the local/transnational dimensions as a collection of locals, or the translocal
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |