Teen Voices
Teen Blogger Debates How Much to Share on Social Media
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While writing blog posts proves to be a therapeutic way to voice her opinions, this teen blogger finds it conflicting to reveal her personal thoughts on social media.
Teen Voices
Glorifying a Disorder or Just Sharing? Teens Find Both Online
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For teens battling eating disorders or self-harming, online support groups can actually be digital danger zones. “Make sure that what you’re looking at is actually healthy,” says one teen. “And if you can’t decide, the best thing you can do is stay away.
social media
‘Likes’ and Live Streaming Rape: Let’s Talk About it with Our Kids
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Parents and teachers do not need to demonize apps like Periscope or Twitter. Instead, we must consistently remind kids to carry the same set of values between real life and social networking.
Teen Voices
High School Feminist Confronts Xenophobic Tweeters
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When this normally discreet high school junior saw what her male classmates had to say about a new immigration order, she shot back at them to prove that white, upper middle-class boys aren’t the only ones with opinions.
India
Philippine Sex Ed Comes Via Video and Text Message
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With quicker feedback on how fast and widely online messages are shared and which videos are popular, reproductive health advocates in projects in India and the Philippines see social media powering a spread of information, changing attitudes and behavior.
Caroline Criado-Perez
Twitter Attacks Against U.K. Journalists Continue
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At least five British women have been targeted by online Twitter trolls in the past two weeks. Though initially criticized for its response, Twitter says it’s setting up new ways to crack down on such harassment.
Activism
UltraViolet Blazes Trail of Social-Media Triumph
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They began by helping to stop the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s effort to defund Planned Parenthood in early 2012. Now the media campaigners are spotlighting the fate of a hacker who exposed the Steubenville rapists.
Isam
Mothers Unite Online to Flex Political Muscle
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Becoming a mom meant being taken less seriously in political circles, says Joanne Bamberger in her book “Mothers of Intention.” But the Internet has given mothers another outlet to share their political voice.
Arts & Culture
Women’s Studies Should Include High-Tech Mastery
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Integrating media technology in the classroom can help boost women’s participation in Internet culture, says Sharon Collingwood in the book of essays “Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition.” In this excerpt she spotlights female bloggers.
Arts & Culture
Arabic Twitter Stars Come Face-to-Face in Cairo
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After a year of courageous digital leadership, female activists from the Middle East and North Africa–some of them Twitter superstars–met in Cairo last week. It was a chance to meet face-to-face, savor revolutionary success and weigh setbacks.