Furious : Technological Feminism and Digital Futures
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| Title: | Furious : Technological Feminism and Digital Futures |
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| Description: | As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic? In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of a masculinist digital world, highlighting the tendency of digital humanities scholarship to venerate and essentialise technical forms, and to adopt gendered writing and citation practices. Contesting these writings, practices and politics, the authors foreground feminist traditions and contributions to the field, offering alternative modes of knowledge production, and a radically different, poetic writing style. Through this prism, Furious brings into focus themes including the automation of home and domestic work, the Anthropocene, and intersectional feminist technofutures. |
| Authors: | Caroline Bassett, Sarah Kember, Kate O'Riordan |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Cyberfeminism, Feminism, Feminism and mass media, Technology--Social aspects, Digital media--Social aspects |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & Information Technology, COMPUTERS / Information Theory, COMPUTERS / Networking / Local Area Networks (LANs), LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic? In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of a masculinist digital world, highlighting the tendency of digital humanities scholarship to venerate and essentialise technical forms, and to adopt gendered writing and citation practices. Contesting these writings, practices and politics, the authors foreground feminist traditions and contributions to the field, offering alternative modes of knowledge production, and a radically different, poetic writing style. Through this prism, Furious brings into focus themes including the automation of home and domestic work, the Anthropocene, and intersectional feminist technofutures. |
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| ISBN: | 9780745340494 9780745340500 9781786805652 9781786805669 |
