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Future of Gender and Gender Equality Online: A Scenario Analysis of Imaginaries on Gender and Social Media Platforms

Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The emergence and growth of the internet and social media platforms have engendered significant transformations in everyday life, affecting not only society’s most innermost life but also its structural organization. This digital realm impacts gender equality, giving rise to spaces for feminist community building and activism, but at the same time enabling online gender harassment and violence. Our aim was to construct possible scenarios of the future, focusing on foreseeable consequences of social media on gender (in)equality in Europe. Using the Delphi+ method, we generated diverse future scenarios envisioning the intersection of gender and social media platforms. Through an analysis of these scenarios, we identified three recurring themes situated on a continuum from utopian to dystopian perspectives, including various positions in relation to the question of social media as safe or unsafe spaces. This study then provides us with possible imaginaries in relation to gender and social media platforms.
DOI: 10.51480/1899-5101.17.1(35).704
Authors: Babette Lagrange, Sofie Van Bauwel, Daniel Biltereyst, Sara Cannizzaro, Justine Toms, Yasemin Agca, Ingrid Andersson, Emma Bjorner, Achilleas Karadimitriou, Klara Odstrcilova, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos, Elisabetta Risi, Valentina Latronico
Institutions: Ghent University, IULM University, New Bulgarian University, Bilkent University, International Organisation for Knowledge Economy and Enterprise Development, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Charles University, Università della Svizzera italiana
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4400323804
FWCI: 0.969
Cites: 45
Cited by: 2
Related to: 10