RT Article
T1 Between Feminist Solidarity and “Bible-Verse-Throwers”: Catholic Feminist Activists on Social Media and Experiences of Agency
JF Journal of religion, media and digital culture
VO 13
IS 2
SP 246
OP 268
A1 Trattner, Kathrin
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1907328130
AB Focusing on German-speaking progressive Catholic women, the present study aims at investigating religious women’s feminist activism on social media in relation to questions of agency. It does so by focusing on women’s own experiences of approval and empowerment on the one hand and criticism and disempowerment on the other, attending to the possible role of specific social media platforms’ affordances in this context. Taking an actor-centered approach, this article draws on in-depth interviews that are analyzed through a cgt-framework. Attention is paid to how different social media ‘bubbles’ and platform-specific affordances and vernaculars impact the responses the women receive and their possibilities of reacting thereto as their content moves between different platforms beyond their control. The results are discussed against the background of theories of agency in the context of gender, religion, and digital media, arguing for an understanding of agency as relational, situated, and dispersed.
K1 affordances
K1 Agency
K1 Catholicism
K1 Social Media
K1 Feminism
DO 10.1163/21659214-13021244