TY - JOUR ID - 62354 TI - Women and activism in social media (Case study: “Stealthy Freedom of Women” page in the Facebook) JO - Woman in Development & Politics JA - JWDP LA - en SN - 2538-3124 AU - Talebian, Hamed AU - Talebian, Sara AD - Faculty Member of Culture, Art and Communication Research Institute, Iran AD - MA in Global Media and Communication at Helsinki University, Finland Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 205 EP - 222 KW - Slacktivism KW - activism KW - Facebook KW - Social media KW - Social movements DO - 10.22059/jwdp.2017.62354 N2 - "My Stealthy Freedom" is the name of a Facebook page that demands to protest against compulsory Hijab and demonstrate willing of clothing freedom for women in Iran. The foundation and activity of the page had been described as a "social movement". Some western media claimed that this would be a successful social movement for Iranian women and some others asserted that this page would be a new platform in which Iranian women represent a new image of their identity. In this paper, analyzing qualitatively a purposive sample of photos with their captions, we are questioning these claims again. Our findings indicate that despite some excitements about a new social movement for Iranian women in western media and western human rights association, "My Stealthy Freedom" cannot be considered as a new applicable social movement against Iran's government and the law of compulsory hijab in Iran. Finally, we conclude that this Facebook page is not only incapable of organizing a real social movement against hijab, but also can be a well-suited example for the concept of slacktivism. UR - https://jwdp.ut.ac.ir/article_62354.html L1 - https://jwdp.ut.ac.ir/article_62354_90220665895b1eb28cc8a256cf9a9eef.pdf ER -