Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism

Description

Yes / This special issue on feminisms and social media is published at a unique point in
time, namely when social media platforms are routinely utilised for communication
from the mundane to the extraordinary, to offer support and solidarity, and to
blame and victimise. Collectively, social media are online technologies that provide
the ability for community building and interaction (Boyd & Ellison, 2007), allowing
people to interact, share, create and consume online content (Lyons,
McCreanor, Goodwin, & Moewaka Barnes, 2017). They include such platforms
as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tinder, and Snapchat among others.

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1. Locke A, Lawthom R and Lyons A (2018) Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism. Feminism & Psychology. 28(1): 3-10.
2. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15501
3. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353517753973

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Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/15501
Date	08 February 2018
Creators	Locke, Abigail, Lawthom, R., Lyons, A.
Source Sets	Bradford Scholars
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Type	Article, Accepted Manuscript
Rights	© The Author(s) 2018. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Feminism & Psychology. 28(1) by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved.