ABSTRACT
Digital platforms have become important sites of politics, debate, advocacy, and activism. This chapter explores the gendered dimensions of digital politics. It does so by considering the features, opportunities and problems associated with online feminist activism; the emergence of increasingly virulent and extreme groups of Men's Rights Activists within digital spaces; and the gendered foundations of digital platforms and technologies, such as social media or artificial intelligence (AI), themselves. The development and production of social media platforms, websites, gaming and AI are heavily male-dominated industries. This means that particular (male) voices are amplified and privileged while others are obscured and marginalised. Whether we examine the sorts of politics that play out across digital platforms or the production of these platforms, gender matters to digital politics.
