Feminist Social Media Webinar For Teens.

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a Progressive Girls' Voices Program

Where are you?

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Would you classify yourself as a creator? Joiner? Spectator? Critic? Collector (of information)? Inactive?

Connection.

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• According to a Pew Study, 56% of girls agree that social networking helps them feel closer and more connected to their friends.  

• 52% have gotten involved with a cause or issue they care about through social networking.

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•key demographic information •target key players in your campaign.

SoMe: Twitter

a Progressive Girls' Voices Program

SoMe: Twitter

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SoMe: Facebook

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•Great for local campaigns

•Limit access to profile for everyone or just certain people.

•Group vs. Page vs. Person

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•More info on groups vs. pages

SoMe: Tumblr

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• Most feminist and female-dominated social media tool on the web.

•The content is snarky, smart and easily sharable.

•Most queer-positive site including straight allies.

•Most teens are micro blogging here

Blogging. 

1. Ignore buzzwords.2. Pick a topic — you can change it when you know what you're doing.3. Spend two seconds choosing software.4. Post something right now.5. Practice, practice, practice.6. Ignore your lack of readers. 7. When in doubt, Tumblr

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Remixing.

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•Great tool if your campaign or cause revolves around media critique, gender roles and/or popular culture.

•Easy way to integrate video

•Able to post right to YouTube and Facebook.

Make something, anything. 

• The more hours of TV a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life; the more hours of TV a boy watches the more sexist his views become. 

• If female characters are added to media programming at the current rate, gender balance won’t occur for 700 years.   

source: Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media

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