Feminist Activism and Digital Networks: Between Empowerment and Vulnerability (Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137504706 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 167 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. 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 contradicti
Fotopoulou refers to as the invisibility of gender and sexuality as embodied practices in communication studies and social movement studies alike. “How are new forms of political subject and political practice possible? The focus of cultural studies for decades, this question acquires new urgency in the digital era with its radically new possibilities for acting together and in view of each other. Focusing on the lively and important forms of feminism occurring in digital networked cultures as space