Digital Dilemmas: Transforming Gender Identities and Power Relations in Everyday Life

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The proliferation of digital technologies, virtual spaces, and new forms of engagement raise key questions about the changing nature of gender relations and identities within democratic societies. This book offers a unique collection of chapters that brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to explore how gender experiences and identities are being transformed by digital technologies in ways that affirm or deny social justice. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Digital Dilemmas: Transforming Gender Identities and Power Relations in Everyday Life (Diana C. Parry, Luc S. Cousineau, Corey W. Johnson, Simone Fullagar)....Pages 1-19 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Laughing at Injustice: #DistractinglySexy and #StayMadAbby as Counternarratives (Aimée Morrison)....Pages 23-52 Digital Black Feminism (Ashley Love)....Pages 53-71 Front Matter ....Pages 73-73 Online Qualitative Methods: Confronting New Possibilities and Challenges Within a Social Justice Perspective (Dawn E. Trussell, Jen Apgar, Laura Kovac)....Pages 75-94 Appnography: Modifying Ethnography for App-Based Culture (Luc S. Cousineau, Harrison Oakes, Corey W. Johnson)....Pages 95-117 Front Matter ....Pages 119-119 Writing Recovery from Depression Through a Creative Research Assemblage: Mindshackles, Digital Mental Health, and a Feminist Politics of Self-Care (Simone Fullagar, Iesha Small)....Pages 121-141 Playing with Zombie Problems: Exploring the Gender-Digital-Play Assemblage in Online Mental Health Campaigns (Teresa Swist, Philippa Collin)....Pages 143-161 The Impact of Digital Culture on Women in Sport (Katie Lebel, Ann Pegoraro, Alanna Harman)....Pages 163-182 This Girl Can? The Limitations of Digital Do-It-Yourself Empowerment in Women’s Active Embodiment Campaigns (Annaleise Depper, Simone Fullagar, Jessica Francombe-Webb)....Pages 183-204 Making Gender and Motherhood Through Pedagogies of Digital Health and Fitness Consumption: ‘Soon It Made Us More Active as a Family’ (Emma Rich)....Pages 205-223 Digital Dilemmas Through Networked Assemblages: Reshaping the Gendered Contours of Our Future (Simone Fullagar, Diana C. Parry, Corey W. Johnson)....Pages 225-243 Back Matter ....Pages 245-250