ORCID Identifiers
Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Social Media and Society
Publication Date
4-1-2019
Abstract
© The Author(s) 2019. Web 2.0. seemingly offered empowering opportunities for women globally. While #hashtags gained momentum, liberating women to speak-out against sexual oppression, forging networks for the right to learn to drive, to bridge the gender pay gaps, and to close digital divide, the era of the posthuman, postdigital, and postgender seemed to be just around the corner. A key aspect of this apparent empowerment has been the visual scope of social media that allows women to show the world who they are and how they want to be seen. Teaching in a media and communications program at a university in Dubai, I became interested in the emerging trend of Arab women presenting their lives on social media via image-sharing platforms such as Instagram and Snapchat and assumed that these practices challenged gender inequalities.
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ISSN
Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Volume
5
Issue
3
First Page
206000000000000
Disciplines
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Keywords
empowerment, gender, social media, visual
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Hurley, Zoe, "Why I No Longer Believe Social Media Is Cool..." (2019). All Works. 4000.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/4000
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yes
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series