Tweets, Posts, and Shares: Gender, Social Media, and Political Struggles

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

The Internet and social media can both enable and suppress political participation in gendered ways. The papers in this panel consider the cascading effects of misogynistic Tweets, how social networking shapes gendered political struggles, how mothers mobilize online to stop gun violence, and the impact of feminist identities on online political participation.

Sub Unit

• Division 31: Women and Politics Research

Cosponsor

• Division 40: Information Technology, & Politics

Individual Presentations

• Using Social Network(ing) to Confront Conservativism: Argentina’s #NiUnaMenos - Elisabeth Jay Friedman, University of San Francisco; Ana Laura RODRIGUEZ GUSTA

• Women’s online political participation: Empowerment through a feminist identity? - Katharina Heger, Free University of Berlin; Christian Pieter Hoffmann, University of Leipzig

Chair

• Carla Koppell Georgetown University

Discussants

• Dino Hadzic Trinity College, Dublin

• Laura Roost Newberry College