Books by Riddhima Sharma
Digital Diasporas Labor and Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics, 2019
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Women's Studies in Communication
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Women's Studies in Communication, 2022
This article attempts to understand how ideas of justice are conceptualized within social media d... more This article attempts to understand how ideas of justice are conceptualized within social media discourses around gender and sexual
violence in India through an intersectional analysis of two case studies:
the case of the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian
and the List of Sexual Harassers in Academia, or LoSHA, which generated
many conversations on sexual violence and justice on Twitter,
Instagram, and Facebook. While a cursory reading of these two social
media responses might see both as a rejection of due process and
as seeking justice outside the structures of the judicial system, we
argue that a closer reading of both is necessary to understand the
different contours that these calls for justice have taken. In addition,
we study how these two different social media conversations on
sexual violence have centered the victim/survivor of sexual violence
differently to understand how they engage with carcerality and anticarceral
politics. We conclude by attempting a definition of transformative
justice based on anti-caste feminist interventions on social
media, specifically drawing on the work of Dalit feminists, including
those who created LoSHA.
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Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 2021
In December 2019, massive protests took place across India, in Indian diasporic spaces, and on so... more In December 2019, massive protests took place across India, in Indian diasporic spaces, and on social media platforms to resist against the passage of the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which for the first time introduced provisions to grant citizenship based on a person's religion and explicitly excluded Muslims from its scope. The protests were sustained well into 2020 until the COVID-19 pandemic hit and put a brake on the momentum the movement had gained thus far in person. The protests, led largely by women (particularly Muslim women) and marginalized groups in India saw huge participation across digital and off-line spaces. In this essay, I examine ways in which marginalized groups in India connect with what Radhika Gajjala has referred to as "digital diasporas" and use social media platforms to build transnational solidarities around the anti-CAA protests. 1 Additionally, I also map the ways in which online and off-line anti-CAA protests negotiate with, and are constrained by the state through instances of controlling internet access, creating counter-hashtag campaigns, and in extreme circumstances, blocking access to the internet altogether. When the anti-CAA protests began unfolding in December 2019, I was in India and had the opportunity to closely witness and participate in several online and off-line protests. Thus, the arguments in this essay draw considerably from my personal experiences of participating in the anti-CAA protests both online and in person.
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Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations(DHARTI) Blog, 2021
In this short reflection piece, I ponder over the question of legitimacy of digital, particularly... more In this short reflection piece, I ponder over the question of legitimacy of digital, particularly social media feminist activism using the case of #LoSHA and reflect on the challenges of studying these spaces as legitimate sites of feminist activism.
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The Projector: A Journal on Film, Media, and Culture, 2021
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Feminist Media Studies, 2021
This essay critically analyzes the discourses around #LoSHA from an intersectional feminist lens... more This essay critically analyzes the discourses around #LoSHA from an intersectional feminist lens to understand how #LoSHA and the consequent digital feminist activism around it became a tool for articulating womxn’s anger & frustration around sexual violence.
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Conference Presentations by Riddhima Sharma
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violence in India through an intersectional analysis of two case studies:
the case of the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian
and the List of Sexual Harassers in Academia, or LoSHA, which generated
many conversations on sexual violence and justice on Twitter,
Instagram, and Facebook. While a cursory reading of these two social
media responses might see both as a rejection of due process and
as seeking justice outside the structures of the judicial system, we
argue that a closer reading of both is necessary to understand the
different contours that these calls for justice have taken. In addition,
we study how these two different social media conversations on
sexual violence have centered the victim/survivor of sexual violence
differently to understand how they engage with carcerality and anticarceral
politics. We conclude by attempting a definition of transformative
justice based on anti-caste feminist interventions on social
media, specifically drawing on the work of Dalit feminists, including
those who created LoSHA.
Conference Presentations by Riddhima Sharma
violence in India through an intersectional analysis of two case studies:
the case of the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian
and the List of Sexual Harassers in Academia, or LoSHA, which generated
many conversations on sexual violence and justice on Twitter,
Instagram, and Facebook. While a cursory reading of these two social
media responses might see both as a rejection of due process and
as seeking justice outside the structures of the judicial system, we
argue that a closer reading of both is necessary to understand the
different contours that these calls for justice have taken. In addition,
we study how these two different social media conversations on
sexual violence have centered the victim/survivor of sexual violence
differently to understand how they engage with carcerality and anticarceral
politics. We conclude by attempting a definition of transformative
justice based on anti-caste feminist interventions on social
media, specifically drawing on the work of Dalit feminists, including
those who created LoSHA.