Lagrange, B., Van Bauwel, S., Biltereyst, D. et al. (10 more authors) (2024) The future of gender and gender equality online: a scenario analysis of imaginaries on gender and social media platforms. Central European Journal of Communication, 17 (1(35)). pp. 103-124. ISSN 1899-5101
Abstract
The emergence and growth of the internet and social media platforms have engendered significant transformations in everyday life, affecting not only society’s most innermost life but also its structural organization. This digital realm impacts gender equality, giving rise to spaces for feminist community building and activism, but at the same time enabling online gender harassment and violence. Our aim was to construct possible scenarios of the future, focusing on foreseeable consequences of social media on gender (in)equality in Europe. Using the Delphi+ method, we generated diverse future scenarios envisioning the intersection of gender and social media platforms. Through an analysis of these scenarios, we identified three recurring themes situated on a continuum from utopian to dystopian perspectives, including various positions in relation to the question of social media as safe or unsafe spaces. This study then provides us with possible imaginaries in relation to gender and social media platforms.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 Polish Communication Association. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) |
Keywords: | Future scenarios; gender; gender equality; social media platform; feminism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Sociological Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2025 16:58 |
Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2025 16:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Polish Communication Association |
Identification Number: | 10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).704 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:223971 |
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