| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 167 pages) |
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Palgrave studies in communication for social change |
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Palgrave studies in communication for social change.
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| Contents |
Feminist Activism and Digital Networks; Prologue; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Conceptualising Feminist Activism and Digital Networks; Digital Feminism?; Embodiment, Labour and Practice; Materiality and Representation; Biodigital Vulnerability; A More Philosophical Discussion: Posthumanist Performativity; Notes on Methods; Itinerary; Notes; Bibliography; 2 Women's Organisations and the Social Imaginary of Networked Feminism: Digital and Networked by Default?; Digital Engagement, Cyberfeminism and Computational Narratives |
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Versions of Contemporary Feminism and Network Imaginaries: Changing Organal Practices and Making Sense of Digital Media; 'A building with women through its veins'; Catching Up with Technologies and Changing Organal Routines; 'That's our own Facebook, we meet face-to-face': New Media Literacy and Offline Networking; Digital Sisterhood?; Material Constrains and the Struggle for Legitimacy; Questioning Networked by Default: Social Imaginary, Ideology and Digital Culture; Conclusion: Feminism Is the Politics of Connectivity and Affect; Notes; Bibliography |
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3 The Paradox of Feminism, Technology and Pornography: Value and Biopolitics in Digital Culture; Sex Wars and Pornography Debates; Post-porn, Posthumanism and Queer Negativity; I.K.U.; Artporn, Postporn and the Question of the Political; Selfie Feminism and Webcam Princesses; 'Porn 2.0' and Affective Labour; Nofauxx; Conclusion: From Exposure to Politics; Notes; Bibliography; 4 From Egg Donation to Fertility Apps: Feminist Knowledge Production and Reproductive Rights; Revisiting Biopolitics; Changing Regulations and Feminist Responses; Gender, Egg Scarcity and New Forms of Labour |
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Constructing Credibility and Connecting Local Struggles; 'Why is the commodification of my eggs so bad?' Representativeness, Choice and Responsibility; Digital Biopedagogy and the Quantified Self; Conclusion: Biopolitical Feminist Networks; Notes; Bibliography; 5 Space, Locality and Connectivity: The End of Identity Politics as We Know It?; A Sense of Place; Gay Pride, the 'Village' and Consumerism; The Political Potential of Commodification; Queer Mutiny Brighton as a Counterpublic: Queer Mutiny and Anti-capitalist Politics; Queer Metaculture and Queer Consumer Citizenship |
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'I'm not the kind of person who would put on my hood and fight the police ... ' Understandings of Activism; Creating References: The Pedagogical Aspects of Queer World-Making; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 6 Epilogue: Looping Feminist Threads; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book sheds new light on the way that, in the last decade, digital technologies have become inextricably linked to culture, economy and politics and how they have transformed feminist and queer activism. This exciting text critically analyses the contradictions, tensions and often-paradoxical aspects that characterize such politics, both in relation to identity and to activist practice. Aristea Fotopoulou examines how activists make claims about rights online, and how they negotiate access, connectivity, openness and visibility in digital networks. Through a triple focus on embodied media practices, labour and imaginaries, and across the themes of bodily autonomy, pornography, reproduction, and queer social life, she advocates a move away from understandings of digital media technologies as intrinsically exploitative or empowering. By reinstating the media as constant material agents in the process of politicization, Fotopoulou creates a powerful text that appeals to students and scholars of digital media, gender and sexuality, and readers interested in the role of media technologies in activism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 2, 2017) |
| Subject |
Computer networks -- Social aspects
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Computer networks -- Feminist criticism
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Feminist theory.
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Media studies.
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Cultural studies.
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Development studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Computer networks -- Social aspects
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Feminist theory
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137504715 |
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1137504714 |
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1137504706 |
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9781137504708 |
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