New Publication: Lünenborg, M., & Makhashvili, A. (2025). Feeling feminist futures in digital environments. In Papacharissi, Z. (Ed.) The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy (1st ed.). Routledge
Can social media help create more feminist futures—or does it simply turn feminism into another marketable trend? In a new book chapter, Margreth Lünenborg and Ana Makhashvili tackle this question by exploring the affective dynamics of digital feminism. From hashtag activism and online solidarity to networked misogyny and the commercialization of feminist causes, they examine the promises and pitfalls of feminist and anti-feminist engagement in digital spaces.
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Affective feminist solidarity, the authors argue, is not something that can ever be fully achieved. Instead, it emerges through the ongoing work of listening across differences, negotiating conflicts, and making space for dissonant voices. Such an understanding of solidarity opens up possibilities for challenging networked misogyny, resisting the commodification of feminism, and imagining feminist futures that are diverse, open-ended, and fundamentally plural.