Who's Laughing Now?
Feminist Tactics in Social Media
$88.09
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2021
Summary
Exploring feminist social media tactics that use humor and laughter as a form of resistance to misogyny, rewiring feelings of shame into shamelessness.
Online sexism, hate, and harassment aim to silence women through shaming and fear. In Who’s Laughing Now?, Jenny Sunden and Susanna Paasonen examine a somewhat counterintuitive form of resistance—humor. Sunden and Paasonen argue that feminist social media tactics that use humor, laughter, and a sense of the absurd to answer na…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262044721 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262044722 |
| Author: | Jenny Sunden, Susanna Paasonen |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 436g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Jenny Sunden
Jenny Sundén is Professor of Gender Studies at Södertörn University in Sweden.
Susanna Paasonen is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Turku in Finland. She is the coauthor of NSF- Sex, Humor, and Risk in Social Media (MIT Press).
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