More info & RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Information-Innovation-UTS/events/277640274/ #HashtagActivism is the use of social media by participants in contemporary social and political debates. In this seminar, researchers explore some of the fundamental questions around the use of these media in the contexts of gender and national identity. - How do participants use these media? - How do they allow new forms of political expression? - What are their limitations as communications tools in the political domain? Dr Natalie Krikowa is a media scholar and practice-led researcher at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research discusses issues surrounding media representation and identity politics in screen studies, popular culture, and transmedia, with a feminist, Queer, and gender studies focus. She works as the Creative Director of Zenowa Productions, writing and producing queer female focused works including The Newtown Girls (2012) and All Our Lesbians Are Dead! (2017). Dr Tisha Dejmanee is a Lecturer in Digital and Social Media at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research is in the field of feminist media studies, with a focus on contemporary feminist theory, food studies and digital platforms. Her work has been published in Television and New Media, Feminist Media Studies and International Journal of Communication. Pamela Fransen-Taylor is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at UTS. Her research interests include information behaviour, social media and utilising the Internet to support and build social capital. Dr Bhuva Narayan is Associate Professor, Digital Social Media, and Graduate Research Coordinator for the School of Communication, UTS. Her teaching and research interests are in the field of Human Information Behaviour (how humans need, seek, find, organise, and use information, both online and in everyday life) including Digital Social Media. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.