In the digitalized culture, social media has become an important site of work, leisure, pleasure, politics, and activism. While social media has made media production more democratic allowing a range of marginalized identities to be seen and heard, platforms’ technological affordances affect how social media can be used. From a feminist perspective, social media with its numerous contradictions make up a fascinating arena of analysis. This course gives an overview to studying social media from a feminist perspective.
In the digitalized culture, social media has become an important site of work, leisure, pleasure, politics, and activism. While social media has made media production more democratic allowing a range of marginalized identities to be seen and heard, platforms’ technological affordances affect how social media can be used. From a feminist perspective, social media with its numerous contradictions make up a fascinating arena of analysis. This course gives an overview to studying social media from a feminist perspective. Students will become familiar with key discussions, theories, and concepts of scholarship on social media and learn how to apply these in their own small case studies.
The topics discussed on the course will range from the production of body positive selfies, to the role of emotions in social media activism, and the ethics of social media analysis. A special notice will be given to theories of corporeality and media users’ embodied investments to social media practices.
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At the end of the course, the learner will become familiar with the key theories and concepts that feminists have used to analyze social media. They can name methods applicable to social media analysis, and understand the ethical implications of studying social media content. Students will become comfortable with using the concept and viewpoints in their own case studies.
No previous knowledge is required.
The course material will be available on Moodle.
Online lectures, Moodle discussions, written assignments + a small case study submitted in the form of an essay or social media presentation (e.g., a podcast, blog post, vlog post).
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