Networked Feminisms

Shana MacDonald is associate professor in communication arts at the University of Waterloo.Brianna I. Wiens is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo.Michelle MacArthur is assistant professor in the School of Dramatic Art at the University of Windsor. Milena Radzikowska is professor in information design at Mount Royal University.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Feminist Takes on Networking JusticeChapter 1: A Sign of the Times: Hashtag Feminism as a Conceptual Framework, Tara L. ConleyChapter 2: Virtual Sojourners: The Duality of Visibility and Erasure for Black Women and LGBTQ People in the Digital Age, Melissa BrownChapter 3: Chronic Fem(me)bots: Keywords for Crip Feminists, Adan Jerreat-PooleChapter 4: Virtual Dwelling: Feminist Orientations to Digital Communities, Brianna I. WiensChapter 5: Native and Indigenous Women’s Cyber-Defense of Lands and Peoples, Marisa Elena DuarteChapter 6: “Being Seen for Who I Am”: Counterpublic Trans Intelligibility and Queer Worldmaking on YouTube, Ace J. EcksteinChapter 7: Online (Indian/South Asian) Digital Protest Publics Negotiating #POC, #BIPOC, and #anticaste, Radhika Gajjala, Sarah Ford, Vijeta Kumar, and Sujatha SubramanianChapter 8: Affect Amplifiers: Feminist Activists and Digital Cartographies of Feminicide, Helena Suárez ValChapter 9: Reproductive Justice and Activism On

We frequently hear calls for more intersectional feminist work in digital media studies, and Networked Feminisms is a masterclass is how to do that. A rich collection of polyvocal contributions, this book provides both a range of useful concepts for exploring networked communication from a feminist lens as well as practical methodological insights into the study of online communities and hashtag publics. Highly self-reflexive and resistant to safe analysis and simple conclusions, the chapters in this book rigorously and creatively explore online activism addressing exclusions based on race, indigeneity, gender identity, sexuality, ability, and caste.