Monday 8 February 2016

Identities: Feminism and new/digital media

1) Ched Evans: petition to prevent convicted rapist playing
Summarise this example for the rest of the class in one paragraph
A feminist named Jean Hatchet who started a online petition to stop Oldham fc from signing Ched Evans a convicted rapist.The petition got 21,000 signatures in the first 24 hours and then got 160.000 in September.Oldham eventually withdraw their contract and Jean Hatchet was happy however twitter abuse just increase for her.
What was the initial incident or situation that sparked this example?
Ched Evans is a professional footballer who got convicted of rape in 2012 and was sentenced to 5 years.He came out last year after doing a half sentence and so was looking for a football club to play for to get just career back on track.The clubs that wanted to sign him were revealed and one of them was Oldham fc and so fans and feminist were not happy about this
In your opinion, is this an example of a valid campaign or something of a witchhunt against people who are not doing any serious harm?
In my opinion I think that the petition and all the talk was not needed if Oldham FC thought that this will help them and get Ched Evans career stated it again it wouldn't be a bad idea.As he always said he was innocent and not only that he done his time and is a free man.

2) Caroline Criado-Perez: female presence on banknotes
Summarise this example for the rest of the class in one paragraph
Caroline who is a a feminist who urged that banknotes should have women on them.As it was a battle with the bank she won and after her victory she received a lot of rape threats and death threats online.Thousand of threats even her fake address was posted on to twitter aswell.
What was the initial incident or situation that sparked this example?
Leaving an all-male, all-white lineup on our English banknotes (apart from the Queen who is there only as an accident of birth). Criado-Perez had threaten to sue the bank under the 2010 Equality Act. The then Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, appeared to dismiss her request. 
In your opinion, is this an example of a valid campaign or something of a witchhunt against people who are not doing any serious harm?
In my opinion i believe that this incident didn't do no harm as banknotes had the Queen on them band man.Its just money and it doesn't really matter whose faces are on it.

3) Caitlin Moran: Twitter silence
Summarise this example for the rest of the class in one paragraph?
The movement is a Twitter trend called #TwitterSilence, and it involves an ironic day of quiet in protest of women's inability to speak out on Twitter without incurring some form of abuse.

What was the initial incident or situation that sparked this example?
Caroline Criado-Perez, the organizer of a campaign that put Austen's picture on the latest British banknote, her fellow U.K. feminists have rallied behind her with an unusual tactic: shutting up.Due to the abuse they were receiving from men so they thought this would show their strength by encouraging and not twitting.
In your opinion, is this an example of a valid campaign or something of a witchhunt against people who are not doing any serious harm?
In my opinion I think this is real issue and the women did a good thing to  go on a twitter silence as twitter abuse is a real thing people think they can say something behind a screen because they dont know the person personally and never have seen them .

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