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Feminist Activism and Digital Networks
Aristea Fotopoulou
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Description for Feminist Activism and Digital Networks
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change. Num Pages: 167 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 365.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
167
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
Number of Pages
167
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137504708
SKU
V9781137504708
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About Aristea Fotopoulou
Dr Aristea Fotopoulou is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, School of Media, University of Brighton, UK. She researches critical aspects of digital culture, emerging technologies and social change. Currently she writes about cultures, practices and subjectivities that relate to self-tracking and big data, from a feminist perspective.
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