Jessamy Gleeson

Deakin University · NIKERI Institute

Social media–based platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly being used by feminists across the globe as a way to capture and harness wider audiences and draw their attention to individual campaigns and social issues. However, the moderators who work behind the scenes on these feminist campaigns are largely unrecognised for their work...

This chapter reasons that feminist activism and discussion in online spaces are a valid and worthwhile form of contemporary consciousness-raising and a specific, and valuable, way of performing feminist identity and activism. Firstly, the chapter examines the importance of feminist activism in social media spaces by using #MeToo as a case study. Se...

The potential and actual impact of traumatic research work on researchers has been of focus in academic literature for at least the past 30 years (Alexander et al.,). This period of time-over 30 years ago-is approximately same age I was when I commenced writing this paper as a result of my direct experience with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...

The activism of Collective Shout - a self-described grassroots campaign group - has its origins in opposing the “pornification of culture” (CS 2015). The group was founded in 2009 by Melinda Tankard-Reist, and in the last 13 years has campaigned against the self-regulation of the advertising industry in Australia. Of particular focus to CS over the...

How do feminist activist groups approach the sensitive task of creating a vigil, and resisting the wider media and political narratives that sit at the heart of a public event of this nature? In 2018, a young woman in Melbourne was murdered by a man in a public park. The vigil for Eurydice Dixon that followed would eventually be attended by thousan...

Feminist activism has existed in social media for some years (Altinay, 2014; Antunovic and Linden, 2015; McLean and Maalsen 2013)-however, the labour associated with such activism is not as readily discussed or examined. As noted elsewhere, labour in online spaces can be conceptualised in many forms: it can be understood as being aspirational (Duff...

This chapter contributes a personal insight into, and reflection upon, the process of organising and enacting a contemporary feminist march. Focusing on SlutWalk Melbourne, the chapter considers how immaterial, digital, and emotional labour are performed within the campaign and how activists handle incidents of burnout and stress. “SlutWalk Melbour...

While many older Australians are embracing the social and health benefits of digital life, there is a disproportionate number who do not have an understanding of, access to, or experience with, newer digital and online technologies. Swinburne Social Innovation Research Institute researchers partnered with Telstra and two Melbourne Councils – Boroon...

Intersectionality was a term first articulated by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989; Crenshaw describes intersectionality as the acknowledgement that domination exists along multiple axes, including those related to class, race, sexuality, and disability. Initially being incorporated into feminism's third wave, intersectionality continues to play a promine...

It was Friday, August 31, 2012. Alan Jones, a well-known Australian conservative radio talkback host and “shock jock”, was on air in his usual time slot on the station 2GB, based out of Sydney, Australia. During one of his regular talkback segments, Jones aired the opinion that the-then Prime Minister, Julia Gillard – alongside other prominent Aust...

The issue of how to analyse and understand the effects of ‘online’ change in an ‘offline’ world, is one that has provoked a number of critiques from various sections of the academy. One approach in particular characterises certain types of online activism - such as mass email campaigns - as incapable of achieving any significant ‘real world’ effect...

One of the common critiques of online-based campaigns is their perceived failure to achieve tangible outcomes and results. Often called “slacktivism”, the use of social media in online campaigns can be perceived as achieving very little in the way of “real world” effects (Karpf, 2010). However, this paper will challenge these claims, and instead su...