Event Title
Online Utopia: An Exploration of Feminist Experience Online
Location
Diamond 123
Start Date
30-4-2015 9:00 AM
End Date
30-4-2015 11:55 AM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
In Donna Haraways A Manifesto for Cyborgs Haraway argues that advancement of technology and space online is creating a more egalitarian space free of sexism, where categories of Male and Female are no longer necessary. This would assume that the internet is a third wave feminist utopia where all different voices and dialogs surround feminism and feminist embodiment can exist comfortably alongside each other. This presentation investigates this assumption about feminist engagement online (cyber-feminisum). Is cyber-feminism creating a space where different engagements with feminisms can coexist? Or is the threat of online trolls and constant anonymous attack stifling the online community.
Faculty Sponsor
Sonja Thomas
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
CLAS Field of Study
Interdisciplinary Studies
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1667
Online Utopia: An Exploration of Feminist Experience Online
Diamond 123
In Donna Haraways A Manifesto for Cyborgs Haraway argues that advancement of technology and space online is creating a more egalitarian space free of sexism, where categories of Male and Female are no longer necessary. This would assume that the internet is a third wave feminist utopia where all different voices and dialogs surround feminism and feminist embodiment can exist comfortably alongside each other. This presentation investigates this assumption about feminist engagement online (cyber-feminisum). Is cyber-feminism creating a space where different engagements with feminisms can coexist? Or is the threat of online trolls and constant anonymous attack stifling the online community.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/396