[Air-L] Gender and Online Activism Articles

Wed Jul 2 12:44:06 PDT 2014

Dear AoIR colleagues,

Thank you for your suggestions for useful articles on Gender and Online
Activism.  because there has been a great deal of interest from many of you
for a compilation of the articles, I decided to send it to the entire
list...

Thanks again for your generosity :)
jose

*Gender and Online Activism Articles of Interest*

Issue of CyberOrient on Gender and Activism in the Middle East

Editorial

Arab Women’s Changing Identities, Activisms and Resistances in a Changing
Region

Sahar Khamis

http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8882

Articles

Gendering the February 20th Movement: Moroccan Women Redefining:

Boundaries, Identities and Resistances

Houda Abadi

http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8817

Sowing the Seeds of The Message: Islamist Women Activists Before,

During, and After the Egyptian Revolution

Mona Abdel-Fadil

http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8854

The Saudi Blogosphere: Implications of New Media Technology and the

Emergence of Saudi-Islamic Feminism

Philip Tschirhart

http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8864

Women and Media: Libyan Female Journalists from Gaddafi Media to Post-

revolution: Case Study

Fatima El Issawi

http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8865

“My Life is More Important Than Family Honor:” Offline Protests,

Counter-Cyberactivism, and Article 308

Sarah A. Tobin

http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8875

Comments

Social Media As an Opportunity to Bahraini Women

Nada Alwadi

http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8815

Gender articles in APC website repository [
http://www.apc.org/en/pubs/research].

Gender discussion in "Take Back the Tech" [https://www.takebackthetech.net].

The Naked Body of Alia: Gender, Citizenship, and the Egyptian Body Politic

Sara Mourad smourad at asc.upenn.edu

http://jci.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/10/22/0196859913508782.abstract

Collective Action and Web 2.0. An Exploratory Network Analysis of Twitter
Use During Campaigns

Elena Pavan

http://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.2383/75766

A chapter on Gender in Jesse Daniel’s Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield,
2009) <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742561588> about gender and online
activism.

Stine Eckert extended dissertation abstract:
http://stineeckert.com/current-projects/

Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2013). “(Re)triggering backlash: Responses to
news of Wikipedia’s gender gap”, Journal of

Communication Inquiry 37(4), 284-303 Abstract:
http://jci.sagepub.com/content/37/4/284.abstract

Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2013). “Wikipedia’s Gender Gap”. In Armstrong,
C. (Ed.), Media Disparity: A Gender

Battleground. (pp. 87-98) Lexington Books.
http://www.amazon.de/Media-Disparity-A-Gender-Battleground/dp/0739181874

General Gender and Activism Work

Chovanec, M. (2009). Between hope and despair: Women learning politics.
Halifax, NS: Fernwood.

Crass, C. (2013). Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist Organizing,
Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategies (p. 295). PM Press.

*Specific Gender and Online Activism Articles*

Irving, C. J., & English, L. M. (2010). Community in Cyberspace: Gender,
Social Movement Learning, and the Internet. Adult Education Quarterly, 61(3),
262–278. doi:10.1177/0741713610380448

http://bakerinstitute.org<http://bakerinstitute.org
>/news/the-arab-awakening-and-the-internet/

"Unveiling the Revolutionaries: Cyberactivism and Women’s Role in the Arab
Uprisings”

Here is a nice article from 2004, which might be relevant:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J041v16n03_11

Laurie M. Phillips dissertation on It Gets Better project
<http://gradworks.umi.com/35/94/3594199.html>

Apologies for self-promotion, but have you seen this piece I co-authored
with Sophia Maalsen

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-5871.12023/abstract

“Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist
Campaigns in Morocco

and Iran” Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam in Mobilization: An
International Journal 15 (3): 267-288, September 2010.

“Iran’s Reformist and Activists: Internet Exploiters” coauthored with Babak
Rahimi in Middle East Policy Journal, Volume XV, Spring 2008, Number 1, pp.
46-59

Commentary & Critique section of the forthcoming Feminist Media Studies
journal (14.3), which is due out online in July. has a special issue on
online feminist activism and privilege.

“Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist
Campaigns in Morocco and Iran” Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam in
Mobilization:
An International Journal 15 (3): 267-288, September 2010.

----------------------------Translated into Persian and published in
Iranian Feminist School:
http://www.iranianfeminschool.info/spip.php?article6574

 “Iran’s Reformist and Activists: Internet Exploiters” coauthored with
Babak Rahimi in Middle East Policy Journal, Volume XV, Spring 2008, Number
1, pp. 46-59

Reprinted in Arseh Sevom online Magazine:
http://www.arsehsevom.net/zine/?p=44

“Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist
Campaigns in Morocco

and Iran” Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam in Mobilization: An
International Journal 15 (3): 267-288, September 2010.

----------------------------Translated into Persian and published in
Iranian Feminist School:
http://www.iranianfeminschool.info/spip.php?article6574

“Iran’s Reformist and Activists: Internet Exploiters” coauthored with Babak
Rahimi in Middle East Policy Journal, Volume XV, Spring 2008, Number 1, pp.
46-59

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