TY - CHAP
T1 - Gendered hashtactivism
T2 - Civic engagement in Saudi Arabia
AU - Fedtke, Jana
AU - Zaid, Bouziane
AU - Ibahrine, Mohammed
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - One of the prominent trends in the Saudi digital space in recent years has been the boom in the use of social networking sites such as Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. This chapter examines how women have adopted Twitter as a digital platform and how this might empower them to change social structures in this traditional society. Saudi women have used Twitter to circulate relevant information and promote their social agenda that remains unrecognized and invisible to the mainstream media and thus in the public sphere. The chapter critically explores hashtactivism, which is increasingly becoming a site of struggle over visibility, mobility, control, and civic participation for Saudi women.
AB - One of the prominent trends in the Saudi digital space in recent years has been the boom in the use of social networking sites such as Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. This chapter examines how women have adopted Twitter as a digital platform and how this might empower them to change social structures in this traditional society. Saudi women have used Twitter to circulate relevant information and promote their social agenda that remains unrecognized and invisible to the mainstream media and thus in the public sphere. The chapter critically explores hashtactivism, which is increasingly becoming a site of struggle over visibility, mobility, control, and civic participation for Saudi women.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-50949-1_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-50949-1_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85097431921
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
SP - 139
EP - 156
BT - Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -