Unleashing the 4th Wave: Exploring the Battle against Body Shaming through Feminist Social Media and Action Research in Twitter: A Comprehensive Analysis of Blind Chances and Empowering Outcomes
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A posterior of vulgarization, in the dramatis personae of feminism has eclipsed the world, in general, and Pakistan, in particular. The imminence of social media is epicyclical, as chunking of stimulating and non-stimulating environments regarding fourth (Feminism 4.0) has been done to analyze its manifesto against; sexual assaults, rape culture, and body shaming. This is a redolent study of justice possibilities massive connectivity, mobilization, and collectiveness under the ‘Feminist Social Research’ and ‘Action Research’ outlook, keeping social media as a pivot. The conclusive discussion has appraisingly tapped social media, overcoming iniquitous issues by focusing on locutions: ‘hypothetical’, ‘disjunctive’, ‘problematic’, or ‘universal’ predicated on mainstream ethical modalities. Moreover, the unpretentious approach of social media has been encouraged as an outer hunch to second paralogisms and synthesizing antinomies to stop embittered impartiality in personality; spirituality, animality, and psycho-physiological rationalism.
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