Györgyi HORVÁTH

Academic Year:
2024/2025

Field of Study:
Media Studies

Research Program:
DigiHum

Affiliation:
Independent Scholar

Country:
Hungary

Research project: From Women's NGOs to Digitally Connected Women: The Transition from Sporadic to Broad-Based Networked Feminism Amidst Democratic Backsliding in Illiberal Hungary

My project focuses on the sudden rise of Hungarian-language online platforms during the 2010s, where women’s issues, previously marginalised by the mass media – like domestic abuse – could be freely and publicly discussed with the participation of a large number of ordinary citizens, and thereby achieve significant social visibility. I investigate, through CDA and interviews, the impacts of these online platforms on Hungarian women’s activism and on the current Hungarian illiberal regime.