How exciting that you’ve found our little venture, let us tell you a bit about it!
ActDigital is run by a group of six students with different backgrounds and a shared interest in better understanding and making positive contributions to the world of communications and social change.
Over the next few weeks, we are going to explore the possibilities, challenges, and risks that an increasing use of digital and social media creates for activists and social movements, particularly feminist activists in pursuit of women’s rights and increased gender equality.
We are not experts, nor are we seasoned activists ourselves. But we’re hoping that by sharing our learning as we look at the academic literature as well as past and current social movements, we can provide knowledge and tools that are helpful if you are using ‘new media’ in your fight for a world that is fairer for women.
Just like Zeynep and the Zapatistas referred to in the quote above, our approach to this blog is to write and post while asking questions. We hope you want to join us on this journey by sharing your reflections, experiences, disagreements, or questions using the comment function. And by sharing the blog with other feminist activists you know.
In a nod to women we admire and respect, and to keep this university assignment separate from our day-to-day lives and careers, we’ve all chosen a pseudonym inspired by a woman activist. Learn more about us and the women we look up to here and tell us about a feminist activist you admire below.
This blog is part of an assignment in a module on New Media, Information and Communications Technologies, and Development, part of the Communication for Development Master’s program at Malmö University.
