Gilda Seddighi
stipendiat
Senter for kvinne- og kjønnsforskning
Stilling: stipendiat
Telefon: 55 58 89 31
Mobiltelefon: 952 93 620 SMS
E-post: Gilda.Seddighi@skok.uib.no
Besøksadresse: Allegt. 34
Social movements
Social media
Online ethnography
Iranian women's movement
Gender theory
Gender and development
Iran
Education:
2011- Present PhD Candidate at centre for Women’s and Gender Research and Department of Information Science and Media Studies
2007-2009 Master of Philosophy in Gender and Development, University of Bergen
2004-2007 Bachelor in Gender studies with specialization in Sociology, University of Bergen
Exchange programs:
Spring 2012 Research stay at School of Oriental and African Studies. Centre for Gender Studies
2006 Exchange student at the University of Cape Town- South Africa
Presentations:
Emotion and Communication in the theories of Bourdieu and Luhmann: The case of Facebook interactions. Digital Culture Research Group UiB. 06.06.1012
Representations of Gender in Iranian online political activism: Kjønnsforskning NÅ, Universitet i Nordland, 04.10.2011
Gender and Iranian Mythologies in the online political activism. Phd-stafetten 2011
Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen 23.11.2011
Representations of masculinity and femininity in Iranian online political activism: the case of the Facebook page “We are all Haleh Sahabi”. Digital Culture Research Group UiB. 03.11.2011
Social Media: Overrated, underrated? National Varieties. International Conference the Arab Spring – and Beyond. Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. 17.10.2011
The representations of the Arab Spring in the media output of Iranian Democracy Movement. International Conference Covering the Arab Spring: Middle East in the Media –the Media in the Middle East. University of Copenhagen and International Media Support 1. 09. 2011
The struggle for gender equality within an Iranian Islamic framework at HEMIL centre (The Research Centre for Health Promotion), University of Bergen 03. 09.2010
Nationalism, Motherhood and Hegemonic Masculinity at Transnational/Global Feminism Conference, University of Bergen 26.04.2010
Presentation of the master thesis. Masterstafetten 2009, at Centre for Women’s and Gender Research, University of Bergen 01.04.09
Organization of academic events:
Member of Organizing Committee: Transnational/Global Feminism. Issues, Contestations, Challenges. An international and interdisciplinary seminar 25th – 26th May 2010 University of Bergen, Norway
Peer reviewer:
Journal of Women, Politics & Policy
Since June 2011
Coordinator: Gender PhD Group- SKOK 2012-2013
Work Experience:
2011 Project coordinator at Empo (Multicultural Resource Centre)- Kirkens Bymisjon, Bergen.
2010-2011 Project coordinator for the project “Living between two cultures” with focus on Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation. Empo (Multicultural Resource Centre)- Kirkens Bymisjon, Bergen.
2010 Research Assistant,Centre for Women’s and Gender Research at UiB
Voluntary work:
2009 -2011 EVA Project- Red Cross
2009 Internship at Amnesty International Norway - Region Vest
2008 - 2009 Athena Project – Mapping the needs of foreign women in prostitution, Red Cross- Bergen
“Blodgiverkampanje for jordskjelvofre vekker Irans sivilsamfunn” in VoxPublic; Magasin om Demokrati og Ytringsfrihet. 27.08.12
“From authoritarian elections to demands for change” in VoxPublic; Magasin om Demokrati og Ytringsfrihet. 20.12.09
“I am Neda; Kjønn og Den grønne bevegelsen for krav om demokrati” in Replikk (2009) nr.28. s. 58-64.
“Hvorfor er presidentvalget så viktig?” in Bergens Tidende. 16.05.09
Master thesis:
The struggle for gender equality within an Iranian Islamic framework; the case of One Million Signatures Campaign.
https://bora.uib.no/bitstream/handle/1956/3459/58435542.pdf?sequence=1
Teaching experience:
Spring 2012 KVIK 101: Introduction to Gender Research, Gender and Media
Spring 2013 KVIK 101: Introduction to Gender Research, Masculinities
Teaching Assistent:
Spring 2013 KVIK 101: Introduction to Gender Research
Seminarleder:
Spring 2013 KVIK 101: Introduction to Gender Research
Representations of Gender in Online Political Actions
A study of Iranian political grassroots? campaigns and scholarly texts in cyberspace
How are women brought into the discussion on the secularization of Islamic governance? How is masculinity represented by political activists? How are the discourses of gender and Islamic democracy related?
My Ph.D. project is an interdisciplinary research with focus on gender and social media in Iranian context. The aim of the project is to examine how masculinity and femininity are represented in the discourse of secularization of Islamic governance in cyberspace. The focus is on the online grassroots campaigns and texts of scholars active in the online political movement. I examine how marginalized communities and groups who have earlier been denied to have a voice in political discussion are present in the virtual communities. Women's access to online political movements challenges the religious discussions on Secularization of Islamic governance. In addition to women, young men are searching for new masculinity in the democratization process and are involved in the online campaigns.