Swords, the Media, & Social Movements: An Interview with Heba Sigurdardottir

04/04/24 • 49 min

Heba Sigurdardottir is a doctoral student at the University of Tampere at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Her research is oriented toward global and transnational sociology with a focus on social movements' discursive strategies across different media platforms. For her doctoral dissertation, she has selected the #MeToo movement and related activism as a case study, partly due to its global reach and local impact. In her research, she has analyzed newspaper coverage of the #MeToo movement in different national contexts, and podcast and YouTube activism against gender-based violence in Iceland.

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