Beyond reproduction: what is silenced and what is voiced matters – narratives of an online WhatsApp community; a Kuwaiti experience | ||
| مجلة القراءة والمعرفة | ||
| Article 13, Volume 20, 219 الجزء الأول ینایر, January 2020, Pages 1-18 PDF (530.82 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mrk.2020.98210 | ||
| Author | ||
| Khadija Al-Ali -Ali | ||
| الکويت | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This article examines the dynamics of silence in an online WhatsApp community. I analyse the written text of an incident of exchanged messages amongst my departmental members in a Kuwaiti higher education college. I tell a story of an old-timer who remained silent during the incident and throughout the year. Based on a feminist research approach and Fivush’s (2010) framework on silence, I show how place, power and voice interconnect in a dynamic way. I also discuss how silence can be used as a tactful strategy and a resistance tool. In this respect silence is powerful and voice is powerless. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Keywords: Silence; voice; power; place; online communities; Kuwaiti college | ||
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