Five women writing about new media, activism and development
Tag: <span>identity</span>

Tag: identity

New media and technology: Can it help to close the gender imbalance in social studies?

At our recent group blog presentations, I cannot help but noticed that many of the blogs written were taking a lens from a female-feminist perspective, in other word most of my peers in the C4D study are women.  I am of course writing this from a traditional slightly bias view …

#Hairitage, #HairActivism, New Media and Self-Development

Let me begin with Blumer’s 1969 (quoted in Crossley 2002:3) definition of what social movements are:  Social movements can be viewed as collective enterprises seeking to establish a new order of life. They have their inception in a condition of unrest, and derive their move power on one hand from …