Showing papers by "Gina Masullo Chen published in 2018"
TL;DR: Results suggest that both the varying affordances of the two platforms and the fact that the two sites may attract different types of people might explain the variations in frequency of incivility and impoliteness on Twitter versus Facebook.
Abstract: Using two quantitative methods, this study sought to understand whether user-generated posts would vary in frequency of incivility, impoliteness, and deliberative attributes on Twitter versus Faceb...
108 citations
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: Chen, Pain, and Barner as mentioned in this paper argue that the agency wrought by the hashtag may offer a constrained empowerment that reinforces hegemonic norms, perpetuates digital subjugation of women, and reifies damaging narratives of victimhood and cultural imperialism.
Abstract: Authors Chen, Pain, and Barner address hashtag feminism and its use of hashtags across a variety of digital platforms with an aim toward theorizing about who defines feminism in the digital sphere and how this relates to future directions for feminist media research and theory They examine how the hashtag provides a potent tool to give voice to the marginalized and silenced, and thus contributes to social media’s role in fomenting social justice, political resistance, and empowerment for women Drawing on Lauren Berlant’s concept, they argue that the hashtag offers discursive power to galvanize the voiceless into “intimate publics” that produce a coherently robust form of activism online, particularly among those left out of the traditional mainstream media discourse Yet, at the same time, the agency wrought by the hashtag may offer a constrained empowerment that reinforces hegemonic norms, perpetuates digital subjugation of women, and reifies damaging narratives of victimhood and cultural imperialism
22 citations
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how Twitter is both a dangerous space for women and a digital sphere that women have reclaimed from rampant misogyny and found that women, particularly women of color, used these hashtags to symbolically reroute the conversation about "nasty women" into something productive, rather than dwell on the hateful words.
Abstract: Using the lens of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, this chapter explored how Twitter is both a dangerous space for women and a digital sphere that women have reclaimed from rampant misogyny. We qualitatively analyzed 1,390 tweets that used the hashtags #NastyWomen or #NastyWoman that were posted after President Donald Trump, a presidential candidate at the time, called his opponent Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” during the final debate of the campaign. Using a discourse analysis of the tweets that use these hashtags, we probed how hashtags are used to shame and silence women but are also a potent tool of women’s digital empowerment. We found that women, particularly women of color, used these hashtags to symbolically reroute the conversation about “nasty women” into something productive, rather than dwell on the hateful words. Thus, the hashtags drew women together into intimate publics, where they felt emboldened being political together. As a result, these hashtags enabled women who supported Clinton to challenge the patriarchy in the collective digital space of Twitter. We believe these hashtags about Clinton offer a microcosm of the types of experiences average women have online, as they also face digital misogyny and have the power to reclaim this sphere through the use of hashtag feminism.
11 citations