Cyberfeminism 2.0

by Radhika Gajjala (Editor), Yeon Ju Oh (Editor)

More than a decade after feminists burst forth onto the Internet demanding material access and social intervention, this collection sets out to explore what it means to be a cyberfeminist today. The contributors examine a wide range of topics, from Health 2.0, the blogosphere, and video games, to female artists and diasporic youth, in order to re-envision how feminists can intervene in the mutual shaping of online and offline relationships. These authors contend that women’s bodies and actions online are influenced by the politics of offline spaces, which buttress power hierarchies at both material and symbolic levels. They do not, however, simply make pessimistic assessments of online spaces as an extension of the existing power relations. Rather, Cyberfeminism 2.0 attends to contested aspects of new digital technologies that simultaneously enable political retreat and feminist resistance.

Genres: Feminism

314 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

虽然过去了十几年，整个互联网都发生了巨变，女性们参与赛博空间活动的方式也更多样，但看来看去都觉得在那个虚空里，遍布着现实镜像的碎片，时不时就会让人刺痛流血。平台算法大数据操纵着用户，用虚假的赋权话语掩盖结构性不平等。blog用户进阶到自媒体创作者，身处其中的女性们苦心经营的profile却没有太多改变，贩卖的那些fantasy也没能解放她们，反倒加重了束缚与刻板印象。但好在一直都有多样的声音，回响在虚拟与现实交叠的裂隙之中。或许也正因为这些微弱而断续的回响，我们才始终没有彻底放弃去想象另一种可能的连接、表达与存在方式。