{"id":2397,"date":"2016-10-27T13:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T20:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T20:21:03","slug":"cyberactivismabroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2016\/10\/cyberactivismabroad\/","title":{"rendered":"papers on cyberactivism by women in Iran & Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"angryjayne\"<\/a>If you are interested in digital engagement or human rights advocacy anywhere<\/em>, it’s worth your time to read the following\u00a0papers. In addition, both concern women’s engagement and feminism specifically.\u00a0The most exciting things happening regarding cyber activism, in my opinion, are happening in countries outside North America and Western Europe, particularly in\u00a0countries where freedom of expression is not assured by law nor practice.<\/p>\n

(1)\u00a0Women\u2019s voices: The journey towards cyberfeminism in Iran<\/a>, by Mansoureh Shojaee<\/a>, Part of the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Working Paper Series.<\/p>\n

The working paper looks at the history of Iranian media by and for women, culminating in cyberfeminism. The main focus are women\u2019s websites and cyber campaigns dedicated to improving women\u2019s rights, and how they helped to mobilize Iranian women\u2019s movements. There are two main case studies: The main case study on websites is the \u201cFeminist School\u201d as an important site for feminist discourse and women\u2019s movements managed from inside Iran. The main case study in relation to cyber campaigns is the \u201cMy stealthy freedom\u201d campaign which is undertaken from outside Iran. Through these two case studies, the paper aims to answer the following questions: To what extent and how do these sites provide strategic opportunities for the Iranian women\u2019s movement to advocating gender equality and women\u2019s rights? And did the cyber campaign help to build coalitions between women\u2019s movements inside Iran and diaspora activism outside of Iran? The case studies are based on the author\u2019s earlier work on the history of the women\u2019 movement, interviews with leaders and directors of women\u2019s websites and directors of mobilizing cyber campaigns along with self-reflective and discourse analysis of the websites and campaigns.<\/p>\n

(2)\u00a0Azerbaijani Women, Online Mediatized Activism and\u00a0Of\ufb02ine Mass Mobilization<\/a> by Ilkin Mehrabov, Karlstad University, Sweden<\/p>\n

Abstract: Despite its post-Soviet history, Azerbaijan is an under-investigated country in academic\u00a0research\u2014compared with the other former constituencies, such as the Baltic countries or Russia, of\u00a0the USSR\u2014and gender questions of the contemporary Azerbaijani society are even less touched on.\u00a0Within the current context of the post-\u201cArab Spring\u201d era of mediatized connectivity and collective\u00a0political engagement, this article looks into and analyzes how Azerbaijani women participate in different online and of\ufb02ine social and political movements, and if (and how) they are impeded by\u00a0the increased state authoritarianism in Azerbaijan. Using data, obtained from online information\u00a0resources, yearly reports of human rights organizations, focus group discussions, and interviews,\u00a0the study detects four major activist constellations within the Azerbaijani \ufb01eld of gendered politics.\u00a0Based on the analysis of conditions of detected groups, the article claims that \ufb02ash mobs, a tactic\u00a0employed mainly by liberal activists, emerge as the promising way in overcoming the normative\u00a0nature of Azerbaijani patriarchal society, thus providing an opportunity for normalization and\u00a0internalization of the feeling of being on the street and acting in concert with others\u2014the practices\u00a0which might lead towards an increasing participation of (especially young) women in the political\u00a0processes of\u00a0the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are interested in digital engagement or human rights advocacy anywhere, it’s worth your time to read the following\u00a0papers. In addition, both concern women’s engagement and feminism specifically.\u00a0The most exciting things happening regarding cyber activism, in my opinion, are happening in countries outside North America and Western Europe, particularly in\u00a0countries where freedom of expression […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[29,31,138,1474,151,176,1473,1475,343],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-volunteer-engagement","tag-activism","tag-activists","tag-cyber","tag-cyberfeminism","tag-digital","tag-engagement","tag-feminism","tag-human-rights","tag-organize"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fFJB-CF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}