[Commlist] New Book: New digital feminist interventions - speaking up, talking back

Giuliana Sorce and Tanja Thomas are happy to share the news about the 
publication of their new edited volume, dedicated to highlighting 
digital feminist activism across the globe:


NEW DIGITAL FEMINIST INTERVENTIONS: SPEAKING UP, TALKING BACK

London: Routledge (218 pp.)

Edited by Giuliana Sorce and Tanja Thomas (University of Tübingen)

Book website: 
https://www.routledge.com/New-Digital-Feminist-Interventions-Speaking-Up-Talking-Back/Sorce-Thomas/p/book/9781032795010?srsltid=AfmBOoql-fYOYTY_Ol1rdJ6TecQfDABDjMRUIEaE6glZk0fdUE_wmkjm

Drawing on the influential work of bell hooks, this edited collection 
highlights social justice interventions by feminist/queer/decolonial 
actors, groups, and collectives who recover the digital as a space for 
activist organizing and campaigning. In presenting a variety of 
sociocultural issues, such as gender violence, queer discrimination, or 
migrant hostility, the book centers empowerment practices in their 
digital forms, showcasing interventions in Asia, Europe, and the 
Americas—thereby critically examining the conditions for marginalized 
voices to speak up, talk back, and be heard in digital publics. The 
chapters in this book are organized into four sections: The first 
section on Activist Practices zooms in on what activists do with digital 
media to speak up and talk back. The second section centers various 
Activist Formats, engaging with different types of digital media as 
spaces for intervention and resistance. The third section, Activist 
Experience, covers the costs of doing digital feminist work. The fourth 
section, Activist Scholarship, speaks to the politics of researching and 
publishing queer and feminist digital activism in our field.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by Linda Steiner

Introduction by Giuliana Sorce and Tanja Thomas

*Section I: Activist Practices*

1. Narratives of Ethical Witnessing: The Politics of Feminist Anger in 
Digital Activism

Sonia Núñez Puente

2. Resilience, Support, and Feminist Counterpublics in Online Debates of 
Gender-Based Violence in Latin America

Ingrid Bachmann

3. Turkey’s Queer Digital Diaspora in Times of Multiple Crises

Yener Bayramoğlu

*Section II: Activist Formats*

4. Creating Solidarity in Decolonial Counterpublics: Digital Feminist 
Grassroots Journalism in Puerto Rico

Cristina Mislán

5. Rights Feminism, Historiography, and Chinese Queer Women’s Digital 
Filmmaking in We Are Here

Jia Tan

*Section III: Activist Experiences*

6. Exploring the Dimensions and Limits of Digital Feminist Labor in Turkey

Gülüm Şener

7. Unleashing Voices: How Uncensored Feminist Podcasts Broaden the 
Discourse on Gender Issues in Mainland China

Luwei Rose Luqiu

8. Digital Feminism as Feminized Labor? Exploring the Intensity and 
Facets of Doing Feminism Online

Christina Scharff

*Section IV: Activist Scholarship*

9. Talking Back to Pandemic Narratives: Facebook Groups as Digital 
‘Homeplaces’ for Queer Digital Acts of Resistance and Worldmaking

Kristin Comeforo

10. Disruptions or Continuations? Feminist Approaches to Big Data/AI in 
Communication and Media Studies

Stine Eckert, Alexandra Porter and Kalyani Chadha

Editor biographies

Giuliana Sorce (PhD, Penn State University) is a postdoctoral scholar in 
the Institute of Media Studies at the University Tübingen, Germany. She 
researches digital media and society with a specialization in activism 
and social movements. She is the editor of Global Perspectives on NGO 
Communication for Social Change (Routledge, 2022) and currently serves 
her second term as chair for the Communication and Democracy section of 
the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). 
Her research has appeared in journals such as Media and Communication, 
Convergence, Journalism Practice, or Environmental Communication.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3583-9573

Tanja Thomas (PhD, University of Tübingen) is full professor of media 
studies with a focus on transformations in media cultures at the 
University of Tübingen, Germany. She researches media and migration; 
memory culture in the media society; right-wing violence, racism and 
media, and  protest from a feminist/cultural (media) studies 
perspective. Her projects on media, migration and memory have received 
multiple grants from German and international research foundations 
(Volkswagen Foundation, German Research Foundation, the German Israeli 
Foundation). She is co-editor of Media and Participation in Post-Migrant 
Societies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Since 2013, she is co-editor of 
the interdisciplinary journal feministische studien.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7232-398X

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