Media Magazine: The fourth wave?



Read the article: The Fourth Wave? Feminism in the Digital Age in MM55 (p64). You'll find the article in our Media Magazine archive here.

1) Summarise the questions in the first two sub-headings: What is networked feminism? Why is it a problem?
Networked feminism is a phenomenon that can be described as the online mobilization and coordination of feminists in response to perceived sexist, misogynistic, racist, and other discriminatory acts against minority groups.

2) What are the four waves of feminism? Do you agree that we are in a fourth wave ‘networked feminism’? 
The types of waves that are apart of this movement are as stated on the guardian
This movement follows the first-wave campaign for votes for women, which reached its height 100 years ago, the second wave women's liberation movement that blazed through the 1970s and 80s, and the third wave declared by Rebecca Walker, Alice Walker's daughter, and others, in the early 1990s. That shift from second to third wave took many important forms, but often felt broadly generational, with women defining their work as distinct from their mothers'. What's happening now feels like something new again. It's defined by technology: tools that are allowing women to build a strong, popular, reactive movement online.  

3) Focus on the examples in the article. Write a 100-word summary of EACH of the following: Everyday Sexism, HeForShe, FCKH8 campaign, This Girl Can.

4) What is your opinion with regards to feminism and new/digital media? Do you agree with the concept of a 'fourth wave' of feminism post-2010 or are recent developments like the Everyday Sexism project merely an extension of the third wave of feminism from the 1990s?
Overall their are many concerns around the factor of feminism and of course means  that their are going to be many different opinions of opinion when it comes to which subjects feminism should be addressing. However in my own opinion i believe that this is a going to be a major concerns for the years to come as there because we still to this day a see massive change from what it once was; this means the use of the fourth wave campaign could suggest that one day in the future it may change altogether due to the fact of new and digital media.

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