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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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“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. Aristea Fotopoulou’s exciting book explores, across diverse and imaginatively selected case studies, the potential for feminist and queer activists to establish new ground and, in the process, change our vision of what politics might be. Highly recommended.” (Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and author of “Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics after Neoliberalism”)
“What do feminism and queer activism mean in an era when digital technologies are so intimately entangled with cultural, economic and political life? In Feminist Activism and Digital Networks, Aristea Fotopoulou gives us an original take on this question, steering a careful course between celebration and despair, andoffering nuanced discussions of contemporary digital biopolitics from alt porn to fertility apps to anarcho-queer placed-based interventions.” (Rosalind Gill, City, University of London, UK)
“Feminist Activism and Digital Networks is an urgently needed antidote to what Dr. Fotopoulou refers to as the invisibility of gender and sexuality as embodied practices in communication studies and social movement studies alike. Focusing on the lively and important forms of feminism occurring in digital networked cultures as spaces of tension and contradiction, possibilities and foreclosures, Dr. Fotopoulou brilliantly helps us understand the complex nature of activism and connectivity in contemporary feminist theory and activism. This book should be required reading for social justice classrooms.” (Carol Stabile, University of Oregon, USA, Managing Editor, Fembot Collective, Co-editor Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Feminist Activism and Digital Networks
Book Subtitle: Between Empowerment and Vulnerability
Authors: Aristea Fotopoulou
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50471-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50470-8Published: 13 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70035-6Published: 04 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-50471-5Published: 07 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6397
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6400
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 167
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Digital/New Media, Development Communication, Culture and Gender, Culture and Gender, Development and Social Change, Media and Communication