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Indonesia Council Open Conference 2025
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“I am swamped with endless notifications”: Academic Women Experiencing and Engaging Online

Individual Paper

Individual Paper

11:00 am

10 July 2025

M01 + M02 (Melbourne Connect)

Session 7: Online Spaces, Offline Realities: Gender, Religion and Healthcare in Digital Contexts

One Conference streams

Gender & Sexuality

Submission Description

There has been a major shift in the academic engagement scene with the rise of digital platforms, offering both opportunities and challenges, particularly for female academics. This paper aims to uncover how the dual-edged impact of online engagement on female scholars. Feminist research methodology is used to understand the phenomena faced and experienced by women. This study employs a qualitative methodology, using in-depth interviews to explore the impact of online engagement on female scholars. The interviews with three senior female academics reveal that digital platforms provide unparalleled opportunities for networking, visibility, and collaboration, enabling female academics to connect with global peers, disseminate research, and access diverse resources. By reducing traditional barriers like institutional biases and geographic isolation, these platforms can promote an inclusive academic environment. The report does, however, also highlight the particular difficulties experienced by female academics when working online, such as heightened scrutiny, cyber bullying, and the possibility of digital fatigue. The results highlight how important it is to manage digital presence and mental health support strategically. This study emphasizes the complex advantages and challenges for being active online for female academics, and it advocates for focused approaches to improve their digital lives and guarantee fair participation in the academic community.

Presenters

Presenters

Individual Paper Presenters

Ms Siti Muflichah - UIN Antasari Banjarmasin Indonesia