Playing With Empowerment Journal Article

Overview

abstract

• This study analyzes how the Half the Sky Movement uses the concept of women’s empowerment to engage female social gamers in a neoliberal development project that turns leisure time into development labor. While the Facebook game has successfully garnered global attention from mainstream media, celebrity endorsements, and impressive public participation, this study argues that it problematically reinforces a dominant approach to development at odds with a feminist understanding of gender and empowerment. Through active design choices, the organization has worked to create a gendered, social media game space that prioritizes individual financial empowerment and monetary aid.

CU Boulder Authors

• Fisher, Jolene

publication date

• October 1, 2016

has restriction

• closed

Date in CU Experts

• January 29, 2018 2:26 AM

Full Author List

• Fisher J

author count

• 1

published in

• Journal of Communication Inquiry  Journal

Other Profiles

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

• 0196-8599

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

• 1552-4612

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859916665645

Additional Document Info

start page

• 313

end page

• 330

volume

• 40

issue

• 4