Dear AoIR colleagues, Thank you for your suggestions for useful articles on Gender and Online Activism. because there has been a great deal of interest from many of you for a compilation of the articles, I decided to send it to the entire list... Thanks again for your generosity :) jose *Gender and Online Activism Articles of Interest* Issue of CyberOrient on Gender and Activism in the Middle East Editorial Arab Women’s Changing Identities, Activisms and Resistances in a Changing Region Sahar Khamis http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8882 Articles Gendering the February 20th Movement: Moroccan Women Redefining: Boundaries, Identities and Resistances Houda Abadi http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8817 Sowing the Seeds of The Message: Islamist Women Activists Before, During, and After the Egyptian Revolution Mona Abdel-Fadil http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8854 The Saudi Blogosphere: Implications of New Media Technology and the Emergence of Saudi-Islamic Feminism Philip Tschirhart http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8864 Women and Media: Libyan Female Journalists from Gaddafi Media to Post- revolution: Case Study Fatima El Issawi http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8865 “My Life is More Important Than Family Honor:” Offline Protests, Counter-Cyberactivism, and Article 308 Sarah A. Tobin http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8875 Comments Social Media As an Opportunity to Bahraini Women Nada Alwadi http://www.cyberorient.net/article.do?articleId=8815 Gender articles in APC website repository [ http://www.apc.org/en/pubs/research]. Gender discussion in "Take Back the Tech" [https://www.takebackthetech.net]. The Naked Body of Alia: Gender, Citizenship, and the Egyptian Body Politic Sara Mourad smourad@asc.upenn.edu http://jci.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/10/22/0196859913508782.abstract Collective Action and Web 2.0. An Exploratory Network Analysis of Twitter Use During Campaigns Elena Pavan http://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.2383/75766 A chapter on Gender in Jesse Daniel’s Cyber Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742561588> about gender and online activism. Stine Eckert extended dissertation abstract: http://stineeckert.com/current-projects/ Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2013). “(Re)triggering backlash: Responses to news of Wikipedia’s gender gap”, Journal of Communication Inquiry 37(4), 284-303 Abstract: http://jci.sagepub.com/content/37/4/284.abstract Eckert, S., & Steiner, L. (2013). “Wikipedia’s Gender Gap”. In Armstrong, C. (Ed.), Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground. (pp. 87-98) Lexington Books. http://www.amazon.de/Media-Disparity-A-Gender-Battleground/dp/0739181874 General Gender and Activism Work Chovanec, M. (2009). Between hope and despair: Women learning politics. Halifax, NS: Fernwood. Crass, C. (2013). Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategies (p. 295). PM Press. *Specific Gender and Online Activism Articles* Irving, C. J., & English, L. M. (2010). Community in Cyberspace: Gender, Social Movement Learning, and the Internet. Adult Education Quarterly, 61(3), 262–278. doi:10.1177/0741713610380448 http://bakerinstitute.org<http://bakerinstitute.org
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"Unveiling the Revolutionaries: Cyberactivism and Women’s Role in the Arab Uprisings” Here is a nice article from 2004, which might be relevant: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J041v16n03_11 Laurie M. Phillips dissertation on It Gets Better project <http://gradworks.umi.com/35/94/3594199.html> Apologies for self-promotion, but have you seen this piece I co-authored with Sophia Maalsen http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-5871.12023/abstract “Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist Campaigns in Morocco and Iran” Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam in Mobilization: An International Journal 15 (3): 267-288, September 2010. “Iran’s Reformist and Activists: Internet Exploiters” coauthored with Babak Rahimi in Middle East Policy Journal, Volume XV, Spring 2008, Number 1, pp. 46-59 Commentary & Critique section of the forthcoming Feminist Media Studies journal (14.3), which is due out online in July. has a special issue on online feminist activism and privilege. “Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist Campaigns in Morocco and Iran” Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam in Mobilization: An International Journal 15 (3): 267-288, September 2010. ----------------------------Translated into Persian and published in Iranian Feminist School: http://www.iranianfeminschool.info/spip.php?article6574 “Iran’s Reformist and Activists: Internet Exploiters” coauthored with Babak Rahimi in Middle East Policy Journal, Volume XV, Spring 2008, Number 1, pp. 46-59 Reprinted in Arseh Sevom online Magazine: http://www.arsehsevom.net/zine/?p=44 “Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist Campaigns in Morocco and Iran” Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam in Mobilization: An International Journal 15 (3): 267-288, September 2010. ----------------------------Translated into Persian and published in Iranian Feminist School: http://www.iranianfeminschool.info/spip.php?article6574 “Iran’s Reformist and Activists: Internet Exploiters” coauthored with Babak Rahimi in Middle East Policy Journal, Volume XV, Spring 2008, Number 1, pp. 46-59 -- _______________________________________________________________________________________ josé marichal, ph.d. | professor of political science <http://about.me/marichal> department | california lutheran university 60 w. olsen road | #3800 | thousand oaks, ca 91360 #marichal on Twitter