Gilda Seddighi
PhD Candidate
Centre for Womens and Gender Research
Title: PhD Candidate
Phone: +47 55 58 89 31
E-mail: Gilda.Seddighi@skok.uib.no
Visiting address: Allegt. 34
Social movements
Social media
Online ethnography
Iranian women's movement
Gender theories
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:
Autumn 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
Papers:
“Women’s online affective writings; contribution to deployment of political discourse” in Kjønnsforskning Nå, Nasjonal forskerskole i kjønnsforskning, Universitet i Stavanger. Session: diskurser om Kjønn. 5. november 2013
“Gender in the Online Public Sphere” in The Ida Blom Conference: Gendered Citizenship: History, Politics and Democracy, University of Bergen, Session: Gender and the Public Sphere. October 14, 2013
“Personal emotions and political subjectivities” in New Trends in Political Communication: ECREA and Department of Social and Political Science Milan, Session: New looks at Public and Political Communications. September 20, 2013
“Women’s affective writings and deployment of political discourses” in Italian Society of Political Science (SISP): University of Florence, Session: Gender and Media; September 13, 2013
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 Myths 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
Fieldwork:
Autumn 2012 - Autumn 2013: Offline and online ethnography of Iranian online political activities
June- September 2008: Ethnography of activities of the campaign "One Million Signatures Campaign" in Iran
Organizing of academic events:
Member of Organizing Committee: "Differentiated Citizenship: Governing Populations beyond Territorial State Borders" Graduate Course at Bergen Summer Research School 23.06.2014 – 03.07.2014.
Member of Organizing Committee: "Gendering the 'Arab Spring'" 31.05.2013. University of Bergen
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
Representative for PhD candidates of Nasjonal forskerskole i kjønnsforskning, Spring 2014 - Spring 2015
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
“Mothers’ Affective Networking and Privileges in Online Space: The Case of Iranian Mothers of Park Laleh” in Feminist Media Studies, 2014, Vol. 14, No. 3.
"Iran's women in the 2013 election" 11.06.2013 http://nowme.cmi.no/
“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
Spring 2014 KVIK 101: Introduction to Gender Research, Feminist Postcolonial Theories and Masculinities
Teaching Assistent:
Spring 2013 KVIK 101: Introduction to Gender Research
Spring 2014 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.