Platform Feminism: Protest and the Politics of Spatial Organization
| dc.contributor.author | Singh, Rianka | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-16T17:55:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-12-16T17:55:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-11 | |
| dc.description | 10 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This article brings into question the political utility of platforms as media for feminist resistance. Using examples of #MeToo, and the Women’s March on Washington, movements that have relied on the platform for reinvigorating what Sarah Banet-Weiser has called “popular feminism” (2018), I argue that common media platforms tend to infer an underlying assumption of safety, privilege and power in relation to social space. Through highlighting how BIPOC people organize in social space, I argue that the focus on amplification and elevation, facilitated by the logics of platform, obscures the needs of those who resist on the margins. I introduce the spatial strategies employed by those who must negotiate space differently to challenge the centrality of platforms as media the structure contemporary feminist protest. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Singh, R. (2018). Platform Feminism: Protest and the Politics of Spatial Organization. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No. 14. https://doi.org/10.5399/uo/ada.2018.14.6 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2325-0496 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/26937 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Fembot Collective | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.title | Platform Feminism: Protest and the Politics of Spatial Organization | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |