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Gender-Based Violence and Digital Media in South Africa

London; New York: Routledge (2024), xi, 124 pp.

Contains index

Series: Routledge Focus on Media and Cultural Studies

ISBN 978-1-032-19781-4 (pbk); 978-1-003-26082-0 (ebook)

"This book presents a new paradigm for attending to gender-based violence (GBV) social media discourse among marginalised black women in South Africa. Focusing on the intersections of television and social media, the study charts the morphing and merging of the "inside" of the soap opera and the "outside" of the real world, amid a rise in feminist social media activism. The analysis begins with coverage of gender-based violence in a long-running South African soap opera and social media discussion of these issues, in parallel with real world events and the collective social media response. The author offers pertinent insights into audiences in sub-Saharan Africa, presenting a new feminist trajectory for women and activism in the region." (Publisher description)
1 Is digital feminist activism defining GBV? 1
2 Gender-Based Violence and Digital Technologies, 30
3 African Feminist Ideology Politics and Gender Based-Violence, 43
4 Gender Digital Activism Offline and Online GBV “Talk”, 71
5 The Nature of GBV Social Media “Talk,” Language and Audience, 85
Epilogue, 115