ABSTRACT
Even though the previous chapters of the book indicate that technological advance comes with several gendered challenges, a dichotomisation in which digital skills are considered to belong to the ‘male sphere’ of journalism would be an oversimplification. Digital skills are also part of strategies aimed at empowerment. This chapter sheds light on how women are hacking the gender gap in journalism by creating initiatives such as networks and mentoring groups and female-friendly hackathons. In these initiatives, women are building digital knowledge, sharing it with each other, giving new meanings to nerd stereotypes and developing their own narratives on technology. The aim of this chapter is not only to share knowledge about good practice but also to take the discussion to a higher theoretical level by making connections with theories on challenging the gender status quo and (feminist) strategies aimed at resistance and emancipation, for example, based on feminist appropriations of Bourdieu’s field theory.
