CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Baranava, Palina |
|---|---|
| Title | How Hannah Pearl Davis Single-Handedly Redefines Social Roles Online: An Analysis of Social Reality of Social Media Spaces |
| Summary | Drawing on Sally Haslanger’s model of social roles agents take under objectification and Miranda Fricker’s theory of epistemic injustice, I argue that Hannah Pearl Davis, a prominent anti-feminist personality, embodies a social role not captured by Haslanger’s existing categorization in the social reality, such as social media spaces. By adopting the thought pattern of objectifying women without the action pattern, Pearl attains social power through epistemic power under such systems. Through analysis of Pearl’s rhetoric and positioning, I demonstrate that social media spaces function as a model of social reality and systems of knowledge production as they shape social reality. I propose an expanded typology of social roles: objectifier, collaborator, complier, object, and feminist, which better accounts for the ways agents socially engage with systems of knowledge production in social media spaces. Ultimately, I show how such systems manipulate objectivity and identity to reproduce gendered hierarchies, while exploiting agents like Pearl to mask and maintain male epistemic dominance. |
| Supervisor | Kronfeldner, Maria Elisabeth |
| Department | Undergraduate Studies BA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/baranava_palina.pdf |
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