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Santa Monica College, Northeastern University
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Abstract
This paper explores the diffusion of the use of new media technologies by women through the internal and external communicative practices of social movements and the effects upon women’s roles as collective agents of social change. We examine women’s media activism and their roles in the region’s social upheavals, with a focus on four cases: Iran’s Green Protests and its feminist movement; the 2011 political revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and women’s campaigns since then; and the gradualist movement in Morocco for women’s rights and democratization. We show that women’s cyber activism, their citizen journalism, and their self-organization both contribute to and reflect the social and political changes that have occurred in the region.
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Recommended citation
Gheytanchi, Elham, and Valentine N. Moghadam. “Women, Social Protests, and the New Media Activism in the Middle East and North Africa.” International Review of Modern Sociology, vol. 40, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1–26.
