[Linganth] gender, twitter, and hashtags

Sat Feb 14 16:36:28 UTC 2015

Hi Liz,

Your student should check out:

Portwood-Stacer and Berridge (2014) Feminist Hashtags and Media Convergence.
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2015.987422#abstract>
Feminist Media Studies

Stache (2014)  Advocacy and Political Potential at The Convergence of
Hashtag Activism and Commerce.
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2015.987429#abstract>
Feminist Media Studies

Huntemann (2014) No More Excuses: Using Twitter to Challenge The Symbolic
Annihilation of Women in Games
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2015.987432#abstract>.
Feminist Media Studies.

Guha (2014) Hash Tagging But Not Trending: The Success and Failure of The
News Media to Engage with Online Feminist Activism in India
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14680777.2015.987424#abstract>.
Feminist Media Studies

Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2013). "(Re)triggering backlash: Responses to
news of Wikipedia's gender gap", Journal of Communication Inquiry 37(4),
284-303

Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2013). "Wikipedia's Gender Gap". In Armstrong,
C. (Ed.), Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground. (pp. 87-98)

the Queer Feminist Media Praxis
<http://adanewmedia.org/issues/issue-archives/issue5/> issue of Ada -
journal of gender, new media, and tech

Jenny Sundén & Malin Sveningsson Gender and Sexuality in Online Game
Cultures: Passionate Play
<https://books.google.ca/books?id=4gtsngEACAAJ&dq=Gender+and+Sexuality+in+Online+Game+Cultures:+Passionate+Play&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MXTfVNquGJKcyAS8sYHAAg&redir_esc=y>

Knut H. Sørensen, Wendy Faulkner and Els Rommes 'Technologies of Inclusion:
Gender in the Information Society
<https://books.google.ca/books?id=BV7qugAACAAJ&dq=Technologies+of+Inclusion:+Gender+in+the+Information+Society&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fnTfVLyfAo-SyQTwnoLIDw&redir_esc=y>
'

Irving, C. J., & English, L. M. (2010). Community in Cyberspace:
Gender,Social Movement Learning, and the Internet.
<http://aeq.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/08/31/0741713610380448.abstract>
Adult Education Quarterly, 61(3), 262-278

Mclean and Maalsen (2003) Destroying the Joint and Dying of Shame? A
Geography of Revitalised Feminism in Social Media and Beyond
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-5871.12023/abstract>.
Geographical Research.

Also:

the 2014 Pew report on online harassment
<http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/>

this short piece <http://www.icahdq.org/membersnewsletter/NOV14_ART0009.asp>
from ICA newsletter on how scholars studying gamergate have been affected

this conference <http://www.sahj.ca/> on gender and games

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

Best,

Rebecca

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Steven Black <stevepblack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Liz,
> There's also an edited volume from 2011, "Digital Discourse: Language and
> the New Media," by Thurlow and Mroczek. And I found Elizabeth Keating's
> (2005) "Homo Prostheticus" in Discourse Studies 7(4-5) to be very useful on
> a theoretical level.
>
> From: "Dick, Hilary" <dickh at arcadia.edu>
> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 08:54:04 -0500
> To: Liz Crocker <lcrocker at bu.edu>
> Cc: "Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (
> LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org)" <LINGANTH at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> Subject: Re: [Linganth] gender, twitter, and hashtags
>
> Hi, everyone--
>
> Liz, I highly recommend a fabulous new article by Yarimar Bonilla and
> Jonathan Rosa on the use of hashtags during the protests of police
> brutality in Ferguson, called--"#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag
> ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States."
>
> It's is in the new volume of American Ethnologist and is open source for
> the next several months; here's a link--
> http://americanethnologist.org/2014/anthropology-ferguson-missouri/
>
> The article focuses on race, not gender, but I certainly think the
> analytical framework the author's develop would be of use for your student.
>
> Best,
> Hilary
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Liz Crocker <lcrocker at bu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a student doing a MA project analyzing the ways that Twitter
>> hashtags shape narratives and expressions, experiences, and frames of
>> gender. She's looking specifically at #gamergate and the discussions of
>> gender and animosity towards feminists.
>>
>> I am look trying to help her find revenant literature. I can suggest all
>> the classic gender and language stuff but I was wondering if anyone knew of
>> anything more specifically related to gender expressions online with
>> relatively recent technology platforms. Most of what we've found looks at
>> pretty outdated platforms and the ways people utilize them seem somewhat
>> different.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Liz Crocker
>>
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