ISBN:
9781137504715
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (175 pages)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
Parallel Title:
Print version Fotopoulou, Aristea Feminist Activism and Digital Networks : Between Empowerment and Vulnerability
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Communication
Abstract:
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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Constructing Credibility and Connecting Local Struggles
Abstract:
'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 -- '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
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