Sexism in digital discourses of women
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Cemile Tokgöz Şahoğlu
Abstract
The chapter points to implicit sexist codes in digital discourses inadvertently produced by women while supporting cyberactivist movements. Drawing on research on feminism and guidelines in Social Media Critical Discourse Studies, the chapter concentrates on the discursive practices of both Turkish and global cyberactivist movements. It tries to show the roots of micro-power produced by users in the context of cultural differences by comparing two campaigns. #MeToo and #SenDeAnlat hashtags have been chosen and analysed by CDS, considering the impact of a digital interface. The analysis includes using sexist language, e.g., degrading words for the female body; reproduction of traditional unequal social roles, e.g., men as protectors and punishers; victim-perpetrator reversal, e.g., victim-blaming through their physical appearance, dress code, and drinking; and developing strategies for adaptation to a sexist order in public spaces.
Abstract
The chapter points to implicit sexist codes in digital discourses inadvertently produced by women while supporting cyberactivist movements. Drawing on research on feminism and guidelines in Social Media Critical Discourse Studies, the chapter concentrates on the discursive practices of both Turkish and global cyberactivist movements. It tries to show the roots of micro-power produced by users in the context of cultural differences by comparing two campaigns. #MeToo and #SenDeAnlat hashtags have been chosen and analysed by CDS, considering the impact of a digital interface. The analysis includes using sexist language, e.g., degrading words for the female body; reproduction of traditional unequal social roles, e.g., men as protectors and punishers; victim-perpetrator reversal, e.g., victim-blaming through their physical appearance, dress code, and drinking; and developing strategies for adaptation to a sexist order in public spaces.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Connecting the digital with the social in digital discourse 1
- Digital distribution processes and “new” research tools in SM-CDS 15
- Digital practice as discriminatory discourse 38
- Social media soft affective politics through discursive and algorithmic synchronization 60
- Towards an ethnographic approach to social media discourses 83
- Unpacking disinformation as social media discourse 107
- Language typology as a discursive affordance in digital discourse 127
- Online counterspeech and the targeting of digital discourses of racism in New Zealand 146
- Sexism in digital discourses of women 167
- A journal of impossible things 187
- Index 209
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Connecting the digital with the social in digital discourse 1
- Digital distribution processes and “new” research tools in SM-CDS 15
- Digital practice as discriminatory discourse 38
- Social media soft affective politics through discursive and algorithmic synchronization 60
- Towards an ethnographic approach to social media discourses 83
- Unpacking disinformation as social media discourse 107
- Language typology as a discursive affordance in digital discourse 127
- Online counterspeech and the targeting of digital discourses of racism in New Zealand 146
- Sexism in digital discourses of women 167
- A journal of impossible things 187
- Index 209
