The Fourth Wave: Contemporary consciousness-raising & discursive digital feminist narratives of gender-based violence

Developing a framework for understanding how contemporary feminist consciousness-raising impacts survivor engagement in digital feminist activism

This research aims to understand how the sharing of online narratives of gender-based violence facilitate consciousness-raising processes of fourth wave feminism, and argues that consciousness-raising is constitutional to new wave feminist activism. I argue that there is indeed a distinct feminist wave which has emerged and that this is defined largely through contemporary consciousness-raising made possible by Web 2.0 and social media.

“...there is indeed a distinct feminist wave which has emerged which is defined largely through contemporary consiousness-raising made possible by Web 2.0 and social media.”

Zoe Condliffe,

Contact: Zoe Condliffe

Email: zoe.condliffe@monash.edu