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In recent years, the global women’s rights movement has flourished, with groups from all over the world making increasing use of the internet and social media as instruments of social change. What is now known as the fourth wave of feminism is undoubtedly influenced by the new communication technologies of our digital era (Looft, 2017; Munro, 2013; Parry, 2018; Rivers, 2017). The relative ease with which women who share a joint agenda use these platforms to connect across geographic, national, cultural, and political boundaries facilitates the global diffusion of women’s activism and supports their struggles to protect their human rights, their bodies, their status, and their identities. Through digital media, women are unapologetically and fearlessly placing the full force of female power behind their demands for rights as they directly challenge patriarchal conventions and hegemony. This book showcases the online activism of women’s groups around the world in the post-#MeToo era and presents an overview of the diversity of its current expressions.
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Wiesslitz, C. (2023). Women’s Avenues of Digital Activism: Fighting for Their Own. In: Wiesslitz, C. (eds) Women’s Activism Online and the Global Struggle for Social Change. Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31621-0_1
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