This article examines the dynamics of silence in an online WhatsApp community. I analyse the written text of an incident of exchanged messages amongst my departmental members in a Kuwaiti higher education college. I tell a story of an old-timer who remained silent during the incident and throughout the year. Based on a feminist research approach and Fivush’s (2010) framework on silence, I show how place, power and voice interconnect in a dynamic way. I also discuss how silence can be used as a tactful strategy and a resistance tool. In this respect silence is powerful and voice is powerless.
-Ali, Khadija Al-Ali. (2020). Beyond reproduction: what is silenced and what is voiced matters – narratives of an online WhatsApp community; a Kuwaiti experience. مجلة القراءة والمعرفة, 20(219 الجزء الأول ینایر), 1-18. doi: 10.21608/mrk.2020.98210
MLA
Khadija Al-Ali -Ali. "Beyond reproduction: what is silenced and what is voiced matters – narratives of an online WhatsApp community; a Kuwaiti experience", مجلة القراءة والمعرفة, 20, 219 الجزء الأول ینایر, 2020, 1-18. doi: 10.21608/mrk.2020.98210
HARVARD
-Ali, Khadija Al-Ali. (2020). 'Beyond reproduction: what is silenced and what is voiced matters – narratives of an online WhatsApp community; a Kuwaiti experience', مجلة القراءة والمعرفة, 20(219 الجزء الأول ینایر), pp. 1-18. doi: 10.21608/mrk.2020.98210
VANCOUVER
-Ali, Khadija Al-Ali. Beyond reproduction: what is silenced and what is voiced matters – narratives of an online WhatsApp community; a Kuwaiti experience. مجلة القراءة والمعرفة, 2020; 20(219 الجزء الأول ینایر): 1-18. doi: 10.21608/mrk.2020.98210