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Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism
Locke, Abigail Lawthom, R. Lyons, A.
Locke, Abigail
Lawthom, R.
Lyons, A.
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2018-02
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© 2018 The Author(s). The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Feminism & Psychology. 28(1) by SAGE Publications Ltd, All rights reserved.
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This special issue on feminisms and social media is published at a unique point in time, namely when social media platforms are routinely utilised for communication from the mundane to the extraordinary, to offer support and solidarity, and to blame and victimise. Collectively, social media are online technologies that provide the ability for community building and interaction (Boyd & Ellison, 2007), allowing people to interact, share, create and consume online content (Lyons, McCreanor, Goodwin & Moewaka Barnes, 2017). They include such platforms as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tinder and Snapchat, among others.
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Locke A, Lawthom R and Lyons A (2018) Social media platforms as complex and contradictory spaces for feminisms: Visibility, opportunity, power, resistance and activism. Feminism & Psychology. 28(1): 3-10.
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