Mariam Meetra was born in Afghanistan in 1992. She studied mass communication and journalism in Kabul and social sciences at Humboldt University in Berlin. Meetra has published articles and reports about the integration and empowerment of migrant women, and her poems have been published in several anthologies in Germany. Meetra’s new collection of poems with German translations will be published this year by Wallstein-Verlag.
Topic:
Digitized Gender Activism in Afghanistan
This project attempts to study the role and importance of media platforms in women’s protests with a specific focus on social media platforms. The research hypothesis is that social networks have played an important role in coordinating the activities of women in Afghanistan. Therefore, it is necessary to study this topic scientifically using the available resources in this field.
To answer the research question of how women use social networks to coordinate activities and protests, the qualitative explanatory method of collecting information and data and analyzing the content of the data is used.