Hear #metoo in India: news, social media, and anti-rape and sexual harassment activism
Introduction and Historical Background -- Framing of Rape in News Media and its Impact on Feminist Activism and Journalists #metooindia Including Themes -- The Heart Doesn't Bleed for Everyone: Selective Outrage and Activism -- The Successes and Failures of Transnational Hashtag Movements -- Mo...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick Camden Newark, New Jersey
Rutgers University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
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| Summary: | Introduction and Historical Background -- Framing of Rape in News Media and its Impact on Feminist Activism and Journalists #metooindia Including Themes -- The Heart Doesn't Bleed for Everyone: Selective Outrage and Activism -- The Successes and Failures of Transnational Hashtag Movements -- Moving Forward: Learning from Anti-Rape Feminist Movements. "Hear #metoo in India examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment feminist activism in India. Including 75 interviews with rural and subaltern feminist activists and journalists working in urban and rural regions of India, the book proposes a nuanced framework of agenda building on rape and establishes a theoretical framework to examine media coverage of issues in the digitally emerging countries of the Global South. In 2017, TIME announced The Silence Breakers, individuals who set off an international movement against sexual harassment, as its Person of the Year, amplifying the #Metoo movement. The intersection of issues of gender violence and activism receives inconsistent focus from the media, policymakers and the citizens. Some rapes and sexual harassments become the focus of mainstream and social media attnetion, while others are relegated to the background. Hear #metoo in India emphasizes the interdependent association between social media networks and mainstream mass media which can strengthen anti-rape and sexual harassment activism. It provides a contextual framework to the relationship between subaltern anti-rape feminist activists in India and transnational anti-rape cyberfeminism and investigates why hashtags may or may not be successful in digitally emerging countries. The book illuminates how and why rape and sexual harassment incidents slip through the existing media, activism, and policy gap"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | vii, 142 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781978805729 9781978805736 |