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Reclaiming Power with #metoo (Power (Individual power # (Taking control,…
Reclaiming Power with #metoo
Social Movements
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What is a social movement?
What constitutes #metoo as a social movement?
Comparison to other previous social movements
hashtag activism
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White woman's movement?
Exclusionary?
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affective intensities
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Power
Individual power
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Taking control
Too much power? Naming and shaming?
Collective power
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A revolution? To make change
Hegemonic/post-hegemonic
Coorporation (Twitter)
gender and the patriarchy
Sexual assault
Activism
1st world
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The digital
Power and empowerment relationship
Affect
Results
Time Person of the Year 2017: The Silence breakers
Moving from social campaign to social change
new government policy for parliament. Anything else??
Backlash
Trolls
Denial
Refusal to listen
Notable moments
Weinstein scandal
Who has been a particularly prominent voice in this scandal? Perhaps it would be interesting to focus on her tweets?
Been arrested and charged
Gymnastics coach
Aziz Ansari
Top 10 retweeted tweets
How did it start? and what is it?
2017 version - backlash to Trump? Backlash to Weinstein?
Who started the 2017 version?
Originally started in 2006 by a person of colour.
"It is not surprising, historically speaking, that the hashtag #MeToo began decades ago as part of an activist campaign led by Tarana Burke to support marginalized women of color who experienced sexual assault, yet only went viral when it was popularized by the white and the wealthy." (Verso report, 4%)
Has the present version appropriated the movement?
It's a hastag
What is a hashtag? How does it work? How do they trend?
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Issues
Who made Twitter judge, jury and executioner?
Too much power? Naming and shaming?
Innocent people being accused
MeToo as a catch-all title for a wide range of things. Is it right for everything to be labelled in the same way, and for every victim and accused to be brandished with the same brush
A movement of privilege