“A Contradiction to Being a Teenage Girl”: How Girl Activists Communicate, Negotiate, and Evolve Activist Identity Gaps
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Abstract
This study employs the communication theory of identity (CTI) to examine how girl activists redefine activism in order to reconcile four distinct identity gaps. The participants (N = 19), aged 16 to 23, all self-identified as activists and were engaged in various activist spaces. Through a phronetic iterative analysis of semi-structured interviews and arts-based elicitation research, the data revealed the strategies that girl activists use to negotiate gaps in their activist identities by collaboratively constructing an evolving definition of activism. This research identifies specific identity gaps and elucidates strategies employed to negotiate the gaps, offering theoretical and practical insights into activist identity development and the gendered disparities present in activist environments. These experiences of girl activists are particularly relevant to communication scholars studying political identity and efficacy, as well as stakeholders focused on engaging and retaining young women in activist spaces.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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