Archives: Nasreen Rajani

Thursday, September 7, 2017

The community in the comments section

There’s plenty of debate about the value of comments sections with online publishers. The Toronto Star is the most recent major Canadian newspaper to disable the comments section of their online news stories beginning December 16th after the CBC, the Sun, and many US media organizations have done the same thing since as early as 2012.  ... More

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Taking light-hearted and sassy popular feminism seriously

  When I began my masters’ research, I wanted to learn more about how popular feminist blogs, such as Jezebel, are influencing the ways readers think about and understand contemporary feminist politics, written through popular culture news and gossip. Although my thesis project looked at more feminist blogs, for this blog post, I want to... More

Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Rajani’s interview on corporate feminist advertising

ALiGN researcher Nasreen Rajani was interviewed about feminist-oriented corporate companies, such as the Dove Beauty Campaign, by Manta Mahas from the CarletonJHR in an articled titled "Femvertising: Is it really progressing women’s rights?"   Rajani commented: “There is a lot of criticism around how they talk about real beauty and self... More

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