Mapping a movement

Social Media, Feminist Hashtags, and Movement Building in the Digital Age

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6076540
AutoresHeather L Storer (0000-0002-8187-0643, University of Louisville, autor de correspondencia), Maria Rodríguez (0000-0003-1401-2099, Hunter College)
Año2020
Volumen28
Número2
Páginas160-176
Fecha de publicación2020-04-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Community Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1070-5422 • E-ISSN: 1543-3706
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10705422.2020.1757541
OpenAlexW3018439220
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas31

Online feminist-based hashtag(#) campaigns, such as #WhyIStayed and #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou, have coalesced into the current #MeToo movement: a global movement to end gender-based violence, on and offline. This study examines issue framing domains within the #WhyIStayed campaign, illustrating how social media campaigns serve as a central component in social movement building. Results indicate #WhyIStayed participants contested dominant representations of intimate partner abuse (IPA) in multiple ways, including demonstrating the ubiquity of IPV and challenging victim-blaming. We argue these subversive acts lay the foundation for the contemporary #MeToo movement. Implications for social work and digital social movement scholarship will be discussed

Aesthetics · Feminism · Feminist movement · Framing (construction · Media studies · Movement (music · Political science · Scholarship · Social media · Social movement · Social movement theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Social Media and Politics