Mediating Feminisms in Social Media Spaces: Creating and Consuming in a Post-#MeToo World

• In Event: Building Identities and Dismantling Discourses With/in Media

Abstract

With the resurgence of the #MeToo movement in 2017, social media platforms have become powerful forums for sharing experiences, fostering conversation around the harmful impacts of sexism and misogyny, and interest in claiming a feminist identity (Allagia & Wang, 2020; Gleeson & Turner, 2019). As we enter a post-#MeToo era, the rise of hate speech in online spaces alongside the evolution of the “manosphere... a detached set of websites and social media groups united by the belief that men are oppressed victims of feminism” (Dickel & Evolvi, 2022, p. 1) poses unique challenges for educators. This paper examines how feminism on social media has evolved, how young people are “creating” feminist identities, and implications for feminist media pedagogies moving forward.

Author

• Patricia Jagger, Vancouver Island University
  Presenting Author