[Air-L] Book announcement: New digital feminist interventions - speaking up, talking back

[Giuliana Sorce]

Dear AoIR community:

We are happy to share the news about the publication of our new edited volume, dedicated to highlighting digital feminist activism across the globe.

All the best,
Tanja & Giuliana


New Digital Feminist Interventions: Speaking Up, Talking Back
London: Routledge (218 pp.)
Edited by Giuliana Sorce and Tanja Thomas (University of Tübingen)
https://www.routledge.com/New-Digital-Feminist-Interventions-Speaking-Up-Talking-Back/Sorce-Thomas/p/book/9781032795010?srsltid=AfmBOoql-fYOYTY_Ol1rdJ6TecQfDABDjMRUIEaE6glZk0fdUE_wmkjm
https://www.routledge.com/New-Digital-Feminist-Interventions-Speaking-Up-Talking-Back/Sorce-Thomas/p/book/9781032795010?srsltid=AfmBOoql-fYOYTY_Ol1rdJ6TecQfDABDjMRUIEaE6glZk0fdUE_wmkjm

Drawing on the influential work of bell hooks, this edited collection highlights social justice interventions by feminist/queer/decolonial actors, groups, and collectives who recover the digital as a space for activist organizing and campaigning. In presenting a variety of sociocultural issues, such as gender violence, queer discrimination, or migrant hostility, the book centers empowerment practices in their digital forms, showcasing interventions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas—thereby critically examining the conditions for marginalized voices to speak up, talk back, and be heard in digital publics. The chapters in this book are organized into four sections: The first section on Activist Practices zooms in on what activists do with digital media to speak up and talk back. The second section centers various Activist Formats, engaging with different types of digital media as spaces for intervention and resistance. The third section, Activist Experience, covers the costs of doing digital feminist work. The fourth section, Activist Scholarship, speaks to the politics of researching and publishing queer and feminist digital activism in our field. 

Table of Contents
Foreword by Linda Steiner
Introduction by Giuliana Sorce and Tanja Thomas
 
*Section I: Activist Practices*
1. Narratives of Ethical Witnessing: The Politics of Feminist Anger in Digital Activism
Sonia Núñez Puente
2. Resilience, Support, and Feminist Counterpublics in Online Debates of Gender-Based Violence in Latin America
Ingrid Bachmann
3. Turkey’s Queer Digital Diaspora in Times of Multiple Crises
Yener Bayramoğlu
 
*Section II: Activist Formats*
4. Creating Solidarity in Decolonial Counterpublics: Digital Feminist Grassroots Journalism in Puerto Rico
Cristina Mislán 
5. Rights Feminism, Historiography, and Chinese Queer Women’s Digital Filmmaking in We Are Here
Jia Tan

*Section III: Activist Experiences*
6. Exploring the Dimensions and Limits of Digital Feminist Labor in Turkey
Gülüm Şener
7. Unleashing Voices: How Uncensored Feminist Podcasts Broaden the Discourse on Gender Issues in Mainland China
Luwei Rose Luqiu
8. Digital Feminism as Feminized Labor? Exploring the Intensity and Facets of Doing Feminism Online
Christina Scharff
 
*Section IV: Activist Scholarship*
9. Talking Back to Pandemic Narratives: Facebook Groups as Digital ‘Homeplaces’ for Queer Digital Acts of Resistance and Worldmaking
Kristin Comeforo
10. Disruptions or Continuations? Feminist Approaches to Big Data/AI in Communication and Media Studies
Stine Eckert, Alexandra Porter and Kalyani Chadha 

Editor biographies
Giuliana Sorce (PhD, Penn State University) is a postdoctoral scholar in the Institute of Media Studies at the University Tübingen, Germany. She researches digital media and society with a specialization in activism and social movements. She is the editor of Global Perspectives on NGO Communication for Social Change (Routledge, 2022) and currently serves her second term as chair for the Communication and Democracy section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). Her research has appeared in journals such as Media and Communication, Convergence, Journalism Practice, or Environmental Communication.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3583-9573

Tanja Thomas (PhD, University of Tübingen) is full professor of media studies with a focus on transformations in media cultures at the University of Tübingen, Germany. She researches media and migration; memory culture in the media society; right-wing violence, racism and media, and  protest from a feminist/cultural (media) studies perspective. Her projects on media, migration and memory have received multiple grants from German and international research foundations (Volkswagen Foundation, German Research Foundation, the German Israeli Foundation). She is co-editor of Media and Participation in Post-Migrant Societies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Since 2013, she is co-editor of the interdisciplinary journal feministische studien.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7232-398X



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LATEST PUBLICATIONS
*Sorce, G., & Thomas, T. (eds.) (2025). New digital feminist interventions: Speaking up, talking back. <https://www.routledge.com/New-Digital-Feminist-Interventions-Speaking-Up-Talking-Back/Sorce-Thomas/p/book/9781032795010?srsltid=AfmBOoql-fYOYTY_Ol1rdJ6TecQfDABDjMRUIEaE6glZk0fdUE_wmkjm> London: Routledge.
*Sorce, G. (forthcoming). Digital and analog young people’s environmental activism: The hybrid action repertoire of Fridays for Future. In S. Akram & B. Bowman (eds.), The Routledge handbook of young people’s environmental activism. London: Routledge.
*Thomas, T., & Sorce, G. (2024). Soziale (Un-)Gleichheit auf Social Media <https://www.bpb.de/themen/medien-journalismus/soziale-medien/547427/soziale-un-gleichheit-auf-social-media/>. Gera: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung.
*Sorce, G. (2023). Stuck with the algorithm: Algorithmic consciousness and repertoire in Fridays for Future’s data contention <https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/6818?fbclid=IwAR1nRBiueqZLnpeGPVFQsdjQWjaKqga09kd-C2sc91j81xFD5avllvMmuD8>. Media and Communication, 11(3), 214-225.

Section Chair: Communication & Democracy <https://ecrea.eu/Communication-and-Democracy> - European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)

Affiliate: The Center for Information. Technology. and Public Life  <https://citap.unc.edu/>(CITAP) - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill