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#guestpost: “Liking” gender stereotypical norms and disablism on Facebook
By feimineach / in #sociology, #gender, #guestposts / July 27, 2017During the summer I have seen several videos and posts online that have caught my attention. Social media can a great way to study people and what a person or several people ”like” on social medias su...
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#vivelafeminism: The alt-right drove feminist writer Lindy West off Twitter. That has real-world political implications. – @ajaromano on @voxdotcom
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 7, 2017Rather, her breaking point — what made her feel she could no longer participate in the platform’s “profoundly broken culture” — was that Twitter has failed to acknowledge and deal with the alt-right’s...
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#vivelafeminism: Internet politics: a feminist guide to navigating online power
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / November 19, 2016Pragmatically speaking, it is important to recognise that many activist groups have very limited resources, especially those working on politically controversial topics, or in poor countries. They sim...
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#todayin: fighting back: “A feminist internet is one where online violence against women is taken seriously and addressed” – @chitranagarajan
By feimineach / in #quickhits / September 13, 2016This piece is getting a lot of coverage, and for good reason. From the guardian, emphasis added. Although the violence women and girls experience online has received growing attention from the media, ...
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#research: The Big Five, self-esteem, and narcissism as predictors of the topics people write about in Facebook status updates
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 26, 2015Abstract: Status updates are one of the most popular features of Facebook, but few studies have examined the traits and motives that influence the topics that people choose to update about. In this st...
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#research: Women use misogynistic terms on Twitter almost as often as men
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 18, 2014A content analysis of tweets reveals that (1) misogynistic terms are frequent on twitter and they seem to be normalised (2) such terms are as likely to be used by women as men (assuming gender is easi...
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ON PRIVILEGE, INTERSECTIONALITY AND TWITTER
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #thinkyblog / April 21, 2013I haven't commented upon the recent, several, controversies on twitter and the blogosphere that have been about privilege (the idea that some of us are better off than others because of our social, ec...
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#maleficentmisogyny: Sexism in the skeptic community: I spoke out, then came the rape threats
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / November 2, 2012It wasn’t until I started talking about feminism to skeptics that I realized I didn’t have a safe space.When I first got involved with the skeptics, I thought I had found my people—a community that en...
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