Author: Neta Kligler-Vilenchik

Neta Kligler-Vilenchik is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She studies political expression in the new media environment, with a focus on young people.

Not Your Mother’s Activism: Young Women’s Political Expression on Social Media

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Young women are the avant-garde of political expression online, developing expressive forms of political communication that collapse traditional distinctions between personal and political, aesthetic and substantive, emotional and analytical. Their approaches suggest new possibilities for political discourse that acknowledges rather than suppresses the role of affect, identity, and visual rhetoric in political mobilization. This piece draws from research presented in the authors’ new book, Not Your Parents’ Politics: Understanding Young People’s Political Expression on Social Media (Oxford University Press, 2024).