Naslov
EMPOWERING FOR GENDER EQUALITY: ROLE OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION IN ACTIVISM OF CROATIAN ISLAND FEMINIST GROUPS

Autori
Holy, Mirela ; Geiger Zeman, Marija ; Miloš, Brigita

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Mediterranean Issues, Book 4 PRESERVING, EVALUATING AND DEVELOPING THE MEDITERRANEAN The Book consists of selected papers presented at the 4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Mediterranean Island Conference MIC –Vis 2022 held at the Island of Vis, Croatia, September 14-17, 2022

Urednik/ci
Jurčević, Katica ; Kaliterna Lipovčan, Ljiljana ; Medić, Rino ; Ramljak, Ozana

Izdavač
Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar VERN' University Scientific Council for Anthropological Research, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU)

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2023

Raspon stranica
271-278

ISBN
978-953-8101-12-0

Ključne riječi
digital communication, feminist groups, COVID-19, Croatia, islands

Sažetak
Digital communication plays a significant role in today’s communication of activist groups and nongovernmental organisations - NGOs. A significant cohort within civil society is feminist groups that promote gender equality and parity democracy, without which there are no genuinely democratic societies. Unfortunately, today’s societies, including the most developed ones in the EU Member States, are still not gender parity (Gender Equality Strategy 20202025, 2020). During the COVID-19 pandemic, the position of women in society became worse than before (Peterman, Potts, O’Donnell, Thompson, Shah, Oertelt-Prigione and van Gelder, 2020). Many women have been victims of cyberbullying (Gender Equality Strategy 20202025, 2020). As epidemiological measures during the lockdown meant an almost complete ban on all social contacts, much of the communication of feminist groups with the public and its users since 2020 has taken place through digital channels (Digitally empowered Generation Equality, 2021). Digital communication transformation has been a significant challenge for feminist groups, especially those operating on islands. Paper aimed to research the role of digital communication in the activism of Croatian island feminist groups, emphasising how much this role changed during the pandemic compared to the prepandemic. However, as there are just two Croatian island feminist NGOs, one of them permanently closed, and other without digital communication channels, we wrote a review paper of the digital communication of feminist organizations with a special emphasis on island associations.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, Sociologija, Rodni studiji

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