This book explores the practices of teenage girls who actively maintain feminist blogs and participate in the feminist blogosphere as readers, writers, and commenters on a variety of platforms including Blogspot, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr.
Jessalynn Keller is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. Her research on girls' digital media cultures has been published in Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies; Feminist Media Studies; Information, Communication & Society; and Celebrity Studies, as well as in several edited anthologies.
Introduction: Transforming Feminist Conversations? Girls, Blogging and Feminist Politics in the Twenty-first Century 1. Click Moments and Coming Out: Girl Bloggers and the Performance of Feminist Identities Online 2. "Spread the Good Word of Feminism!" Defining a Girl-Centered Feminist Activism 3. "Loud, Proud, and Sarcastic:" Young Feminist Internet Communities as Networked Counterpublics 4. "I've really got a thing for Betty Friedan:" Feminist Girl Bloggers and the Production of Feminist History Online 5. Performing a Public Politics: Feminist Girl Bloggers and New Citizenship Practices 6. Conclusions: Articulating a Girl-Friendly Feminist Future