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Female university students, social media, and patriarchy in Algeria : a narrative study

DOI: 10.25392/leicester.data.23977026.v1

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    Female university students, social media, and patriarchy in Algeria : a narrative study
  • Author: Kelalech, Khadidja
  • Subjects: Algeria ; female university students ; females ; feminism ; Patriarchy ; Social Media ; thesis
  • Description: The present study focuses on the interaction between Algerian female university students and social structures that oppose their education, a form of which are social media representations that describe their behaviour in a negative way. In particular, the study aims at exploring how: 1) female university students perceive and respond to social media discourse that misrepresents their behaviour and 2) these misrepresentations influence their education and future career choices. The conceptual framework of this study draws on the interaction between female agents and structural constraints that oppose their education: namely, patriarchy and misinterpretation of the Islamic religion (in the context of the study). To explore this interaction, this study adopts Giddens' theory of structuration, which analyses the mutual and ongoing influence between the individual and the social. The study follows a qualitative research design with an interpretivist approach. I adopted a narrative approach that is based on semi-structured online interviews to interview 13 Algerian female university students from different Algerian higher education institutions. I analysed data using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis approach. The findings of the study revealed the presence of a traditional backlash against women's empowerment through education in Algeria, which produces negative and sexualised discourse about female university students on social media platforms, mainly Facebook. While such discourse does not influence this study's participants' continuity of education and future career choices, it influences their emotional well-being and their safety in public space. The findings also revealed that female university students actively engage with this discourse through confrontation and/or a focus on financial empowerment and personal progress through education. The study offers several implications for policy and practice. The most important of these are 1) the need to discuss the presence of social media discourse that misrepresents the behaviour of Algerian female university students and its influence on women's education in the country, and 2) the need for arranging platforms that represent and respond to the issues faced by Algerian female university students. The study contributes to research about feminism in contemporary Algeria. It specifically addresses the individual stories of its participants and adds to a scarce body of research that investigates the lived experience of the current Algerian woman.
  • Publisher: University of Leicester
  • Creation Date: 2023
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: DOI: 10.25392/leicester.data.23977026.v1
  • Source: EThOS: Electronic Theses Online Service (Full Text)
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