Feminist activism and digital networks : between empowerment and vulnerability /: between empowerment and vulnerability. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Aristea Fotopoulou.
• Authors: Fotopoulou, Aristea
• 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 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; '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
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 167 pages)
• Subjects: 303.4833; Computer networks -- Social aspects; Computer networks -- Feminist criticism; Feminist theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Computer networks -- Social aspects; Feminist theory; Social Science -- Media Studies; Social Science -- Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Media studies; Cultural studies; Development studies; Digital media; Communication; Culture; Gender; Economic development; Social change; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137504715; 1137504714; 1137504706; 9781137504708
• Related ISBNs: 9781137504708
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 2, 2017).
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