New Digital Feminist Interventions

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 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. Tanja Thomas (PhD, University of Tübingen) is 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; participation and protest from a gender, memory and 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 (2022). Since 2013, she co-edits the interdisciplinary journal feministische studien.

Foreword

Introduction

Section I: Activist Practices

1. Narratives of Ethical Witnessing: The Politics of Feminist Anger in Digital Activism

2. Resilience, Support, and Feminist Counterpublics in Online Debates of Gender-Based Violence in Latin America

3. Turkey’s Queer Digital Diaspora in Times of Multiple Crises

Section II: Activist Formats

4. Creating Solidarity in Decolonial Counterpublics: Digital Feminist Grassroots Journalism in Puerto Rico

5. Rights Feminism, Historiography, and Chinese Queer Women’s Digital Filmmaking in We Are Here

Section III: Activist Experiences

6. Exploring the Dimensions and Limits of Digital Feminist Labor in Turkey

7. Unleashing Voices: How Uncensored Feminist Podcasts Broaden the Discourse on Gender Issues in Mainland China

8. Digital Feminism as Feminized Labor? Exploring the Intensity and Facets of Doing Feminism Online

Section IV: Activist Scholarship

9. Talking Back to Pandemic Narratives: Facebook Groups as Digital ‘Homeplaces’ for Queer Digital Acts of Resistance and Worldmaking

10. Disruptions or Continuations? Feminist Approaches to Big Data/AI in Communication and Media Studies