Global Digital Feminisms

Books

  • Kasturi, S. (2020). Gender, citizenship, and identity in the Indian blogosphere: Writing the everyday. Routledge.
  • Scharff, C., Smith-Prei, C., & Stehle, M. (Eds.). (2018). Digital feminisms: Transnational activism in German protest cultures. Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Tan, J. (2023). Digital masquerade: Feminist rights and queer media in China. New York University Press.

Chapters

  • Chandra, G., & Erlingsdóttir, I. (Eds.). The Routledge handbook of the politics of the #MeToo movement (Section III: Global perspectives). Routledge.
  • Dirksen, A. (2020). Building an inclusive society in a digital context. In E. Dubois & F. Martin-Bariteau (Eds.), Citizenship in a connected Canada: A research and policy agenda (pp. 23-40). University of Ottawa Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.17610838.5
  • Garibotti, M.C., & Hopp, C.M. (2019). Substitution activism: The impact of #MeToo in Argentina. In B. Fileborn, & R. Loney-Howes (Eds.), #MeToo and the politics of social change. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15213-0_12
  • Hachimi, A. (2017). Moralizing stances: Discursive play and ideologies of language and gender in Moroccan digital discourse. In J. Høigilt & G. Mejdell (Eds.), The politics of written language in the Arab world: Writing change (pp. 239–265). Brill. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w76vkk.15 
  • Kharroub, T. (2023). Palestinian women’s digital activism against gender-based violence: Navigating transnational and social media spaces. In L. H. Skalli & N. Eltantawy (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of gender, media and communication in the Middle East and North Africa (pp. 317-334). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • MacKinnon, C. A. (2020). Global #MeToo. In Chandra, G., & Erlingsdóttir, I. (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of the politics of the #MeToo movement (Chapter 3). Routledge.
  • Njoroge, D. (2016). Global activism or media spectacle? An exploration of ‘Bring Back Our Girls Campaign.’ In B. Mutsvairo (Ed.), Digital activism in the social media era: Critical reflections on emerging trends in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 311-325). Springer International Publishing.
  • Ryan, T. (2019). This Black body is not yours for the taking. In B. Fileborn, & R. Loney-Howes (Eds.), #MeToo and the politics of social change. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15213-0_8
  • Savaş, Ö. (2021). Whose challenge is #ChallengeAccepted?: Performative online activism during the COVID-19 pandemic and its erasures. In K. A. Hass (Ed.), Being human during COVID (pp. 312–317). University of Michigan Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.12136619.27 
  • Shaw, F. (2013). Blogging and the women’s movement. In S. Maddison & M. Sawer (Eds.), The women’s movement in protest, institutions and the Internet: Australia in transnational perspective (pp. 118-131). Taylor & Francis.
  • Zeng, J. (2019). You say #MeToo, I say #MiTu: China’s online campaigns against sexual abuse. In B. Fileborn, & R. Loney-Howes (Eds.), #MeToo and the politics of social change. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15213-0_5

Journal Articles

  • Abbas, L., & Elhosary, M. (2025). Digitized narratives on #MahsaAmini: Constructing a digital transnational feminist movement on TikTok. Women’s Studies in Communication, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2024.2431332
  • Aiyegbusi, B. T. (2019). Decolonizing digital humanities: Africa in perspective. In E. Losh & J. Wernimont (Eds.), Bodies of information: Intersectional feminism and the digital humanities (pp. 434-446). University of Minnesota Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv9hj9r9.26
  • Baer, H. (2015). Redoing feminism: digital activism, body politics, and neoliberalism. Feminist Media Studies, 16(1), 17–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1093070 
  • Basmechi, F., & Ignatow, G. (2021). Forming an affective public online: Aggressive posts and comments in the My Stealthy Freedom movement. First Monday, 26(3). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i3.11471
  • Belton, K. A. (2010). From cyberspace to offline communities: Indigenous peoples and global connectivity. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 35(3), 193–215. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41319257 
  • Çağatay, S., Göker, Z. G., Hünler, O. S., & Polatdemir, A. (2023). Collective resilience and resistance in hybrid times: Gender struggles in Germany, Turkey and Sweden. Gender, Place & Culture, 31(11), 1514–1537. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2023.2226362 
  • Caldeira, S. P., & Machado, A. F. (2023). The red lipstick movement: Exploring #vermelhoembelem and feminist hashtag movements in the context of the rise of far-right populism in Portugal. Feminist Media Studies, 23(8), 4252–4268. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2166971 
  • Chintrakarn, C. (2024). Thai-fusion popular feminism: the beginning of #DontTellMeHowToDress on Instagram. Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2329964
  • Dosekun, S. (2022). The problems and intersectional politics of “#BeingFemaleinNigeria.” Feminist Media Studies, 23(4), 1429–1445. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2030386 
  • Gangoli, G. (2024). The #MeToo movement in India: Emotions and (in)justice in feminist responses. Feminist Legal Studies, 32, 213–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-023-09540-x 
  • Hashmi, U., Ab Rashid, R., Shahzad, M., & Zulkffli, M. A. (2022). Discursive construction of anti-hijab discourse on Facebook and Twitter: The case of Malaysian former-Muslim women. Feminist Media Studies, 23(6), 2849–2866. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2095578 
  • Hayashi, K., Boczkowski, P. J., Kligler-Vilenchik, N., Mitchelstein, E., Tenenboim-Weinblatt, K., & Villi, M. (2021). Gendered power relations in the digital age: An analysis of Japanese women’s media choice and use within a global context. Feminist Media Studies, 23(5), 1905–1922. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.1998183 
  • Horvath, G. (2021). Internet memes and a female “Arab Spring”: Mobilising online for the criminalisation of domestic abuse in Hungary in 2012-13. Feminist Media Studies, 23(3), 819–835. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2021.2010787 
  • Hush, A. (2020). What’s in a hashtag? Mapping the disjunct between Australian campus sexual assault activism and #MeToo. Australian Feminist Studies, 35(105), 293–309. https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2020.1843997
  • Kermani, H., & Hooman, N. (2022). Hashtag feminism in a blocked context: The mechanisms of unfolding and disrupting #rape on Persian Twitter. New Media & Society, 26(8), 4750-4784. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221128827
  • Kotaman, A., & Şener, G. (2023). Video activism in feminist movements in Turkey. Feminist Media Studies, 24(7), 1582–1597. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2258292 
  • Lee, M., & Murdie, A. (2020). The global diffusion of the #MeToo movement. Politics & Gender, 17(4), 827-855. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000148
  • Liinason, M. (2023). The performance of protest: Las Tesis and the new feminist radicality at the conjunction of digital spaces and the streets. Feminist Media Studies, 24(3), 430–447. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2200472 
  • Liu, M. (2023). #metoo in China: Visceral accounts of rape culture, a non-domestic feminist counterpublic, and networked solidarity. Feminist Media Studies, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2285718 
  • Malafaia, C., Kettunen, J., & Luhtakallio, E. (2024). Visual bodies, ritualised performances: An offline-online analysis of Extinction Rebellion’s protests in Finland and Portugal. Visual Studies, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2023.2292620
  • Nyabola, N. (2018). Kenyan feminisms in the digital age. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 46(3 & 4), 261–272. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26511346 
  • Rovira-Sancho, G. (2021). Activism and affective labor for digital direct action: The Mexican #MeToo campaign. Social Movement Studies, 22(2), 145–162. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2021.2010530 
  • Suárez Estrada, M. (2023). Traversing bodies and territories: feminist activism against digital violence. Feminist Media Studies, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2285713 
  • Tan, Y., & Xu, K. (2022). #Metoo as communities of practice: A study of Chinese victims’ digital narratives of sexual harassment. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 51(3), 302–319. https://doi.org/10.1080/00909882.2022.2141582 
  • Thompson, R. J., & Figueroa, S. (2020). #MeToo and LGBTQ+ Salvadorans: Social and leadership challenges. Gender in Management, 35(4), 373-389. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-05-2019-0078

Other

  • Hara, G. (Director). (2017). Geek girls [Film]. Women Make Movies. 
  • Hassim, N. (2017). ‘Glocalizing’ the hijab: A Malaysian perspective [International Conference on Communication and Media: An International Communication Association Regional Conference (i-COME’16)]. SHS Web of Conferences, 33, Article 00016. https://www.shs-conferences.org/10.1051/shsconf/20173300086
  • Iyer, N., Nyamwire, B., & Nabulega, S. (2020). Alternate realities, alternate Internets: African feminist research for a feminist Internet. Pollicy. https://ogbv.pollicy.org/report.pdf
  • Kadic, N. (2019). Twitter resistance and digital testimonio(s) in 140 characters: Restoring the complexity of Mexico’s hashtag feminism [Master’s thesis, University of Oklahoma]. ShareOK. https://hdl.handle.net/11244/323212
  • Miller, B. (Director). (2012). Forbidden voices: How to start a revolution with a laptop [Film]. Das Kollektiv für audiovisuelle Werke GmbH. 
  • Persson, N. (Director). (2023). Be my voice [Film]. RealReel.