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Nichols, Kathryn A. "Female Flights: A Contemporary Approach to Cyberfeminism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/559.
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This thesis problematizes early cyberfeminist claims that heralded the Internet as a liberating space for women. Cyberfeminism emerged in the early 1990s, at the dawn of the “Internet Age,” and is heavily influenced by Donna Haraway’s 1985 “A Cyborg Manifesto.” Haraway theorized a new way of looking at the nature of female identity, using the figure of the cyborg found in science fiction literature and films. Traditionally, women have been explained in terms of sexual difference and have been forced to uphold a gender binary that privileges men. By contrast, Haraway argues that the cyborg, a hybrid of human and machine, escapes binary logic, thereby resisting categories and hierarchies, and embraces a more fluid understanding of identity. This model contains powerful ramifications for women. Every day, we become more like Haraway’s cyborgs as our physical bodies become increasingly intertwined with modern technologies, specifically in our ever-growing relationship with the Internet. In online interactions, users are no longer confined to their physical bodies and are free to play with identity. Early cyberfeminists believe that this leads to a more fluid understanding of identity and, more importantly, allows for the deconstruction of gender. These claims, however, do not apply in practice as well as they do in theory. From the anonymous text-based spaces that early cyberfeminists describe to social networking sites like Facebook, Internet spaces tend to polarize the gender binary rather than blur it, and women are now colonized on a new front. This becomes increasingly dangerous as the boundaries between our virtual and real lives continue to blur.
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Milford, Trevor Scott. "Girls' Online Agency: A Cyberfeminist Exploration." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/24926.
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Cyberfeminist scholars have identified the Internet as a site where feminist issues are substantiated. This exploratory study investigates young women’s lived experiences of agency within online social networking, also looking at the ways in which their assertion of agency is constrained. Analysis identified four biographically consistent identity narratives within which participants experienced online agency, each with a unique operationalization of agency, constraints upon agency, and role of a heteronormative boyfriend. Identity narratives tended to invoke socially- and media-entrenched representations of how to ‘properly’ perform ‘girl’ online, including stereotypes of girls vigilantly managing online risk or portraying themselves as professional, ethically sensible, family-oriented, or popular and celebrity-oriented. However, these representations were also inherently conflictual, presenting incompatible expectations that were difficult to simultaneously negotiate. In conclusion, this study recommends that future research and policy abandon patriarchal, neoliberal underpinnings in favour of deconstructing problematic stereotyped representations of femininity within online spaces.
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Sayers, Tamara Michelle. "Cyberfeminism in Canada, women, women's organizations, the women's movement and internet technology." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0014/MQ31248.pdf.
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DONKOR, DORCAS A. "The Rise of Cyberfeminism in Africa: Pepper Dem Ministries’ Take on Ghana." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1597260157867617.
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Wyer, Sarah. "Folk Networks, Cyberfeminism, and Information Activism in the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Series." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22752.
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This thesis explores how the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon event impacts the people who coordinate and participate in it. I review museum catalogs to determine institutional representation of women artists, and then examine the Edit-a-thon as a vernacular event on two levels: national and local. The founders have a shared vision of combating perceived barriers to participation in editing Wikipedia, but their larger goal is to address the biases in Wikipedia’s content. My interviews with organizers of the local Eugene, Oregon, edit-a-thon revealed that the network connections possible via the Internet platform of the event did not supersede the importance of face-to-face interaction and vernacular expression during the editing process. The results of my fieldwork found a clear ideological connection to the national event through the more localized satellite edit-a-thons. Both events pursue the consciousness-raising goal of information activism and the construction of a community that advocates for women’s visibility online.
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Kubik, Erica. "From girlfriend to gamer negotiating place in the hardcore/casual divide of online video game communities /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1260391480.
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Nasir, Sumaiya. "Finding voice through social media? : a critical analysis of women's participation in the online public sphere in India." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9679.
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This thesis assesses the effectiveness of social media platforms, specifically Facebook and blogs, in facilitating women’s participation in the online public sphere in India. Discussion provides a literature review of the internet as a new public sphere and its impact and influence in enriching the existing public sphere in India. The study also reviews the relationship between the online public sphere and the role women play in this sphere through social media in India. The research is supplemented by a review study of the ‘India Against Corruption’ movement in order to demonstrate the case for the online public sphere. Moreover, the present study also provides a snap shot of how some blogs and Facebook pages are used by women.
Taking as a case study the 2012 ‘Delhi gang rape’ incident, through a topical network analysis of the Facebook pages and blog articles, this research attempts to understand the role of these media in allowing women to discuss social issues and participate in the public sphere. Drawing from the analysis of blog contents and examining Facebook pages I demonstrate how the women’s voices inhabiting the online sphere are limited to a certain class and region. In the cases studied here respondents appeared to be predominantly urban and middle class. While the scope of the research is small, this is one of the first studies in the area, and the findings suggest that social media are becoming a significant communicative tool in India and that women are increasingly appropriating these technologies. The study also demonstrates that women are discussing issues which were previously considered as taboo like rape and sexual violence, albeit in small numbers. Lastly, I identify challenges limiting women’s participation in the emerging online public sphere in India.
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Mapes, Margarethe. "GLOBALIZED BACKLASH: WOMEN AGAINST FEMINISM’S NEW MEDIA MATRIX OF (ANTI) FEMINIST TESTIMONY." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1163.
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Feminisms are oftentimes confronted with dissonance, resistance, and backlash. Invested in criticizing the cultural and institutional emergence of patriarchy and calls to re-order structures of inequality make feminism threatening to status quo power dynamics. “Women Against Feminism”—a social media phenomenon and space for women to post anti-feminist messages—began gaining notoriety in 2013. By 2015, “Women Against Feminism” expanded to multiple social media platforms, gained thousands of anti-feminist submissions, and received ample support and criticism across news outlets. This study explores “Women Against Feminism” as a potential site of 21st feminist backlash, noting nuanced rhetorical strategies that rely on fearing feminism, declarations of interpersonal and intrapersonal love, and co-opting feminist ideology to propagate anti-feminist narratives. I situate backlash as a communicative phenomenon of perception rather than a clear-cut movement reacting toward a stated goal of progress by a social group. In this way, feminist progress functions as an illusory cultural script where backlash reacts toward the perceived enactment of a feminist goal, rather than (although not excluding) the successful feminist execution of that goal. Thus, this study dually investigates what backlash strategies are used while also uncovering how differing audiences perceive feminism. Finally, I set forth a series of suggestive practical methods for feminist engagement across dissonance and difference.
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Van, der Schyff Karlien. "Screen bound/skin bound : the politics of embodiment in the posthuman age." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4139.
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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The end of the second millennium saw a sudden return to corporeality, especially within
feminist scholarship, where embodiment and issues surrounding the body were, for the
first time, made explicit. This study examines the corporeal body in relation to
technology and the impact that newly emerging virtual technologies have on our
understanding of the body, not only through examining representations of the
technologically modified body, but also by exploring how contemporary cultural
practices produce corporeal bodies that view themselves as somehow integrated with
technology. It focuses on the material artefacts of contemporary culture in relation to
explicitly virtual technologies, both arguing for a return to corporeality and contesting the
pervasive trope of disembodiment that characterises so-called “posthuman” age.
This study thus takes one of the most popular metaphors for the relationship between the
corporeal body and technology as its starting point, namely Donna Haraway’s cyborg
figures. Following the publication of Haraway’s “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (1985), the
female cyborg became an icon of emancipation for many feminist scholars, who utilised
Haraway’s cyborg discourse as a means of discussing the cultural practices that both
construct and limit female gendered identity. Through closely examining the metaphor of
Haraway’s cyborg figures in relation to cultural representations of female cyborg bodies,
this study argues that, ultimately, the metaphor of the cyborg is inherently neither
challenging nor liberating. It then examines the failure of the cyborg as an icon of
postgenderedness in terms of its negation of the corporeal, as cyborg figures
paradoxically only strengthen the same Cartesian dualism Haraway’s cyborg discourse
attempts to deconstruct. It explores representations of three female cyborg figures found
in contemporary popular culture to illustrate how the cyborg body’s negation of the
corporeal only results in the reiteration of conventional gendered stereotypes, rather than
liberation from oppressive gendered practices.
Finally, this study examines the crucial interplay between the corporeal and the
technological, not only when speaking of more imaginary cyborg configurations and tropes, but also when speaking of the physical reality of lived bodies and embodied
experiences. By examining the increasingly embodied nature of cyberspace, this study
explores possible alternatives to the figure of the hypersexualised and disembodied
cyborg, through investigating new figurations with which to describe the embodied
postmodern subject and his/her dependence on technology. Since the central task for a
feminist ethics of embodiment would be grounded in the project of representing the
female body, in such a way that it constructs autonomous women’s representations
without falling prey to patriarchal, stereotypical or estranging images of women’s bodies,
this study concludes with more useful methods of representing the corporeal body in
relation to virtual technology through an appeal to an ethics of embodiment.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die einde van die tweede millennium het ‘n skielike belangstelling in beliggaamdheid
ontlok, veral binne feministiese vakgeleerdheid, waar beliggaamdheid en kwessies
rondom die ligaam vir die eerste keer eksplisiet gestel is. Hierdie studie ondersoek die
stoflike liggaam in verhouding tot tegnologie en die invloed wat nuwe, virtuele
tegnologiëe op ons begrip van die liggaam het, nie slegs deur voorstellings van die
tegnologies-gemodifieërde ligaam te ondersoek nie, maar deur ook te kyk na hoe
kontemporêre kulturele praktyke beliggaamde subjekte produseer wat huself op een of
ander wyse as geïntegreerd met tegnologie sien. Die studie fokus op die materiële
artefakte van kontemporêre kultuur in verhouding tot eksplisiet virtuele tegnologiëe. Dit
bevorder ‘n terugkeer tot beliggaamdheid, terwyl dit teen die sogenaamde “postmenslike”
era se mees kenmerkende troop van ontliggaamdheid argumenteer.
Die studie begin dus deur een van die mees populêre metafore vir die verhouding tussen
die liggaamlike en die tegnologiese te ondersoek, naamlik Donna Haraway se siborgfigure.
Sedert die publikasie van Haraway se “A Manifesto for Cyborgs” (1985), het
verskeie feministiese vakgeleerdes die vroulike siborg-figuur beide as ’n ikoon vir
emansipasie beskou en gebruik om die kulturele praktyke wat vroulike geslagsidentiteit
gelyktydig konstrueer én beperk te bespreek. Deur Haraway se siborg-figure met
kulturele voorstellings van vroulike siborg-liggame te vergelyk, kom hierdie studie tot die
gevolgtrekking dat die metafoor van die siborg inherent nóg uitdaagend nóg bevrydend
is. Gevolglik ondersoek die studie die onbevoegdheid van die siborg-figuur as ‘n ikoon
vir postgeslagtigheid in terme van die siborg-liggaam se negering van beliggaamdheid,
aangesien siborg-figure op ‘n paradoksale wyse die selfde Cartesiaanse dualisme versterk
wat Haraway se siborg-diskoers wou dekonstrueer. Dit ondersoek voorstellings van drie
vroulike siborg-figure in kontemporêre populêre kultuur om te illustreer hoe die siborgliggaam
se negering van beliggaamdheid slegs konvensionele geslagstereotipes versterk,
eerder as om ons van beperkende, patriargale geslagspraktyke te bevry. Ten slotte ondersoek hierdie studie die deurslaggewende tussenspel tussen die ligaamlike
en die tegnologiese, nie slegs in terme van meer denkbeeldige siborg tropes nie, maar ook
in terme van die fisiese reailiteit van konkrete, beliggaamde lewenservaringe. Deur die
toenemend beliggaamde kwaliteit van kiberruimtes te ondersoek, stel hierdie studie
moontlike alternatiewe maniere voor om die postmoderne subjek en sy/haar
afhanklikheid van tegnologie te beskryf, eerder as om op ontliggaamde en hipergeseksualiseerde
siborg-figure staat te maak. Aangesien ‘n feministiese beliggaamde
etiek gegrond is in ‘n projek om die vroulike liggaam op só ‘n wyse voor te stel dat
patriargale, stereotipiese of vervreemdbare beelde van die vroulike liggaam vermy word,
eindig hierdie studie met meer nuttige metodes om die stoflike liggaam in verhouding tot
virtuele tegnologie voor te stel deur ‘n beroep tot ‘n meer beliggaamde etiek te maak.
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Seeger, Loren A. "The rest is still unwritten : female adolescents' cultivation of gender from MTV's reality television series "The Hills" through celebrity gossip blog commentary." Thesis, Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1482.
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Volschenk, Jacolien. "Fusions of the feminine and technology : exploring the cyborg as subversive tool for feminist reconstructions of identity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2013.
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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>In this dissertation the dominant metaphor for the fusion between the feminine and
technology, the cyborg, will be examined through various texts to assess the value the
cyborg has for feminism as a tool to exposes the constructedness of boundaries of identity
and gender, thereby enabling a reconstruction of a new feminine identity in a subversive
and transgressive space. The main themes which will be addressed are those that often
feature in feminist science fiction: reproduction, sexuality, the construction of identity
and gender through science, culture and ideology, and the power relations between men
and women. Other related concepts which will be dealt with are language, self and
Other, representation and perspective. Feminist science fiction and theory attempt to
destabilise conventional boundaries concerned with gender and identity and the texts
which this dissertation deals with are all, to varying degrees, concerned with this
destabilisation, each offering a unique perspective on feminine identity and the attempted
transformation of current gender categories which will be explored in detailed analysis.
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McComas, Sue Ellen. "Resisting and Reconciling a Virtual Age: Performing Identities and Negotiating Literacies in Shifting Mid-life Workspaces and Immersive Online Environments." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276897944.
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Kubik, Erica. "From Girlfriend to Gamer: Negotiating Place in the Hardcore/Casual Divide of Online Video Game Communities." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1260391480.
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Schlindwein, Ana Flora 1975. "Dos periódicos oitocentistas ao ciberfeminismo : a circulação das reivindicações feministas no Brasil." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/270773.
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Previous issue date: 2012<br>Resumo: O objetivo geral desta pesquisa foi observar como coletivos feministas no Brasil estão (ou não) se apropriando e usando as novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs) e como as questões sobre gênero estão circulando nesses novos meios. Principalmente no período pós Segunda Guerra Mundial escolas distintas (como a Escola de Frankfurt e a Escola de Toronto de Comunicação, entre outras) tiveram como objetivo entender o lugar das TICs na sociedade, alternando abordagens mais tecnofóbicas ou tecnofílicas. Uma das preocupações desta pesquisa foi mostrar a relação entre as teorizações sobre comunicação e mídia e os coletivos feministas, observando se as abordagens acima mencionadas se fazem (ou não) presentes nas publicações online de grupos de defesa da mulher quando estas tratam das questões de gênero. Após apresentar um panorama da relação entre as feministas brasileiras e a mídia a partir, principalmente, de periódicos (desde o século XIX até o século XXI), esta dissertação traz como corpus de análise o material produzido e publicado no formato e-zine (eletronic fanzine) pelo Grupo de Ação Feminista (GAFe), de Florianópolis (SC). Dentre os quesitos ponderados na escolha desse material estão o período de sua produção, a constante publicação de novos tópicos e o contato entre esse grupo e outros movimentos sociais. A abordagem metodológica adotada foi híbrida - análise de conteúdo e pesquisa interpretativa - e objetivou a saturação dos dados. Os resultados apontam que o coletivo promove uma profunda crítica à subordinação feminina ao aparelho genital e à perpetuação da dualidade de gênero, sendo temas como violência, aborto e direitos da mulher os mais debatidos. As considerações finais mostram que apesar do GAFe se auto identificar como um coletivo de mulheres e homens que buscam o fim da dualidade de gênero e de afirmarem que o feminismo não é o contrário do machismo, o seu material no geral apresenta uma preocupação maior com questões femininas e delegam ao homem geralmente a figura de opressor. Com relação ao seu posicionamento frente à comunicação e à mídia, tanto momentos tecnofóbicos quanto tecnofílicos são observados<br>Abstract: The aim of this research was to observe how feminist groups in Brazil are (or are not) taking control and using new information and communication technology (ICT) and how gender issues are moving through these new media. Mainly after the World War II different schools (as Frankfurt School and Toronto School, among others) had as their goal to understand which place the ICTs had in our society, switching more technophobic and technophilic approaches. This research was concerned about showing the relation between communication and media theories and the feminist groups, observing if the approaches mentioned before can (or cannot) be found in online publications of women defense groups when they talk about gender issues. After showing a brief view of the relation between Brazilian feminism and the media, mainly through newspapers (since the 19th century until the 21st century), this dissertation has as its corpus the material produced and published in an electronic fanzine format by Grupo de Ação Feminista (GAFe), from Florianopolis (Santa Catarina State). Among the aspects considered to choose that specific material are (a) how long its production lasted, (b) the frequency of new publications and (c) the contact the group had with other social movements. The methodological approach was hybrid - content analysis and interpretative research - and it aimed the data saturation. The results demonstrate the group has a heavy criticism about women subordination to the female reproductive system and about the gender dualism, and themes as violence, abortion and women's rights as the most debated ones. The Final Considerations show that although considering itself as a group of men and women who search for the end of the gender dualism and stating the feminism is not the opposite of sexism, the material produced by GAFe presents, in general, more debates about women's issues and men have the role of the oppressor. About its position when the subject is communication and media, the group shows both technophobic and technophilic posture<br>Mestrado<br>Divulgação Científica e Cultural<br>Mestra em Divulgação Científica e Cultural
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Lemos, Marina Gazire. "Ciberfeminismo: novos discursos do feminino em redes eletrônicas." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/5260.
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Previous issue date: 2009-10-22<br>The communication technologies enables a new configuration in the process of
organization of several social movements for instance the feminist movement, that after
incorporating the new electronics networks has gained a new practice called
Cyberfeminism. This dissertation intent to investigate how the appropriation of
electronic networks allows Cyberfeminist groups to build new approaches in the
feminist discourse. Many of these groups utilizes the communication technologies, such
as the Internet, not just to politically organize their selves, but use these mediums as an
instrument to question the woman condition through works that connect art with
activism. The actions of groups like Old Boys Network (Germany), VNS Matrix
(Australia) and the Brazilian artist, Helga Stein are investigated as a social phenomena
and new way of modal discourses under the communication theories lens. From this
theoretical point of view, this research uses the Cyborg Theory (1984) by Donna
Haraway and the post-human studies developed by Mark Dery (1995) and Lúcia
Santaella (2003 and 2008). We will present the examples described above as much as a
in its theoretical as in its empiricist scope and their relation to the technologies<br>As novas tecnologias de comunicação possibilitam um redimensionamento dos
modos de organização de inúmeros movimentos sociais como, por exemplo, o
feminismo que, a partir da popularização de redes eletrônicas de comunicação,
apresenta uma nova prática denominada Ciberfeminismo. A dissertação pretende
investigar como a organização em redes eletrônicas permite aos grupos ciberfeministas
novas construções do discurso feminista. Muitos dos grupos ciberfeministas utilizam as
tecnologias de comunicação, como por exemplo, a Internet, não só para se organizarem
politicamente, mas também para problematizar a questão da mulher através de trabalhos
que mesclam ativismo e arte. As atuações de grupos como as Old Boys Network
(Alemanha) , VNS Matrix (Austrália) e da artista brasileira Helga Stein são investigadas
aqui como fenômenos sociais e manifestações dos novos discursos feministas sob viés
das teorias da comunicação. Do ponto de vista teórico, a pesquisa se apoia na Teoria do
Ciborgue de Donna Haraway (1984), nos estudos sobre o Pós-Humano de Mark Dery
(1995) e Lúcia Santaella (2003 e 2008). Apresentaremos os fenômenos descritos acima
tanto em âmbito teórico quanto empírico, procurando investigar as diferentes
possibilidades do discurso ciberfeminista e sua relação com a tecnologia
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Mongan, Shelby Fawn. "Cyborgs in the Pews: Proposing a Cyberfeminist Theology." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1438620717.
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Rocha, Fernanda de Brito Mota. "A quarta onda do movimento feminista: o fenômeno do ativismo digital." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2017. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/6728.
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Previous issue date: 2017-08-31<br>Nenhuma<br>A presente pesquisa contemplou o estudo da Quarta Onda do Movimento Social Feminista, justificando-se diante das mudanças sociais provocadas pela tecnologia da informação na promoção e divulgação dos ideais que constituem essa faceta do Movimento. Enfocando a ação do feminismo na internet, especificamente abordou-se a coleta de dados num blog feminista. Como objetivo geral, pretendeu-se analisar a configuração do movimento feminista na especificidade do ativismo digital, suas proposições de discussão e pautas oportunizadas via ferramentas tecnológicas, especificamente a internet, no processo de disseminação da luta feminista pela ampliação de direitos. Optou-se por verificar um ano de postagens no blog Escreva Lola Escreva e selecionar, por mês, os posts com maior número de comentários para, posteriormente, fazer uma análise das temáticas discutidas. Essa escolha metodológica se pauta no fato dos posts mais comentados terem suscitado maior discussão e interesse. Não foi objetivo dessa pesquisa analisar o teor desses comentários. Eles serviram de critério para seleção do corpus. Diante dos resultados apontados pela análise de dados realizada no corpus documental, o que chama atenção é a interação dos(as) leitores(as) enquanto sujeitos ativos, e eventuais mudanças de opinião e modo de encarar a vida, a partir daquelas interações. Destaca-se como categoria recorrente a crítica ao patriarcado em diversas perspectivas. Isso reforça a ideia da percepção crítica do sistema opressor, centrado no homem. À luz da análise empírica e apoiando-se na literatura pode-se afirmar a existência da Quarta Onda do Movimento Feminista, caracterizado pelo ativismo digital. Por apresentar e oportunizar as discussões e pautas vivenciadas no âmbito social, atesta que os movimentos sociais digitais estão conquistando espaço e representatividade.<br>The present dissertation contemplated the study of the Fourth Wave of the Feminist Social Movement, justifying itself in the face of the social changes provoked by information technology in promoting and disseminating the ideals that constitute this facet of the Movement. Focusing on the action of feminism on the internet, specifically addressed the collection of data from a feminist blog. As a general objective, the aim was to analyze the configuration of the feminist movement in the specificity of digital activism, its proposals for discussion and timelines opportunized via technological tools, specifically the internet, in the process of dissemination of the feminist struggle for the expansion of rights. It was chosen to check one year of posting of the blog “Escreva Lola Escreva” and select, each month, the posts with the highest number of comments to later make an analysis of the topics discussed. This methodological choice is based on the fact that the most commented posts have generated greater discussion and interest. It was not the purpose of this research to analyze the comments. They served as criteria for corpus selection. Considering the results pointed out by data analysis performed without documentary corpus, what draws attention is an interaction of readers as active subjects and possible changes of opinion and ways of facing life, from those interactions. It is highlighted as a recurrent category the critique of patriarchy in several perspectives. It reinforces the idea of the critical perception of the oppressive system, centered in men. Considering the empirical analysis and based on the literature, one can affirm the existence of the Fourth Wave of the Feminist Movement, characterized by digital activism. By presenting and opportuning the discussions and guidelines experienced in the social sphere, it testifies that digital social movements are gaining space and representativeness.
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Rojas, Paredes Alison Valeria. "Explorar como se manifiesta el movimiento “Free the Nipple” en la moda en Lima desde su origen 2012, hasta el 2020." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/656796.
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En el presente trabajo de investigación se conoce al movimiento feminista contemporáneo “Free the Nipple” y su vinculación en la moda peruana. Para su desarrollo se formula el siguiente objetivo general: Conocer cómo se manifiesta el movimiento “Free the Nipple” en la moda en Lima desde su origen 2012, hasta el 2020. Para ello, se investigó sobre el origen y la evolución del movimiento, además de analizar y explicar cómo se ve reflejado en la moda peruana.
Asimismo, se definieron términos que comprenden al movimiento como: Free the Nipple, feminismo, desigualdad en redes sociales y ciberfeminismo. Así también, como el estudio histórico de dos de ellos: Free the Nipple y feminismo, esto contribuye a identificar históricamente las diferencias que persisten en la sociedad al tratarse de la libertad y derechos en hombres y mujeres.
Respecto al desarrollo de antecedentes, solo se encontraron antecedentes internacionales, esto se debe al origen del movimiento en Estados Unidos, de esta manera el presente trabajo de investigación es uno de los primeros recursos nacionales enfocados en el movimiento “Free The Nipple” y la indumentaria de moda local.
En cuanto a la metodología de investigación es cualitativa de tipo etnográfica, pues se enfoca en la realidad social empleándose técnicas de recolección de carácter inductivo y teorías. Así mismo, la población de estudio son los diseñadores peruanos de moda, curadores, modelos e influencers. Respecto a la muestra se segmentan y se toman solo a los diseñadores peruanos, curadores, modelos e influencers que se enfoquen en la conceptualización de movimientos sociales, es decir moda activista en busca de la reflexión en la sociedad. Finalmente se realiza recojo de información mediante entrevistas digitales, organizándolas por categorías según la profesión de estos.<br>In this research work, the contemporary feminist movement "Free the Nipple" and its manifestation in Peruvian fashion are known. For its development, the following general objective is formulated: To know how the “Free the Nipple” movement manifests itself in fashion in Lima from its origin, 2012, to 2020. For this, the origin and evolution of the movement was investigated. to analyze and explain how it is reflected in Peruvian fashion.
Likewise, terms that comprise the movement were defined as: Free the Nipple, feminism, inequality in social networks and cyberfeminism. Also, like the historical study of two of them: Free the Nipple and feminism, this contributes to historically identify the differences that persist in society when it comes to freedom and rights in men and women.
Regarding the development of antecedents, only international antecedents were found, this is due to the origin of the movement in the United States, in this way this research work is one of the first national resources focused on the “Free The Nipple” movement and clothing local fashion.
Regarding the research methodology, it is qualitative and ethnographic, since it focuses on social reality and uses inductive collection techniques and theories. Likewise, the study population is Peruvian fashion designers, curators, models and influencers. Regarding the sample, only Peruvian designers, curators, models and influencers who focus on the conceptualization of social movements, that is, activist fashion in search of reflection in society, are segmented and taken. Finally, information is collected through digital interviews, organizing them by categories according to their profession<br>Trabajo de investigación
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Downey, Genesis M. "Constructing Elysium and Playing Ugly: Methods of Intimacy in Fantasy Role-Playing Game Communities." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435242565.
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Tajdin, Wafa Mohamed. "Sexy sports: a reception study of the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Olympics website coverage of women's beach volleyball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002941.
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Sexy Sports: A reception study of the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Olympics website coverage of women’s beach volleyball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics involves an examination of the sporting media and its reportage of the female athlete. The thesis will focus on the reception of the NBC Olympics website coverage of women’s beach volleyball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics by viewing groups constituted by the researcher. The reason for this is that it would be difficult to find naturally constituted audiences for this website, but its reception is never-the-less of research interest. My hypothesis is that the nature of the images and text on the website is overdetermined by the construction of women on other popular texts such as men’s magazines etc. In focusing on the meanings obtained from the content of the website (texts and images), the study will investigate how these meanings are naturalised in specific moments of production as well as through their intertextual relationships with similar texts involved in the glamorisation of female athletes. Specifically the study explores the meanings obtained from the content of the website (texts and images) and how in turn these meanings are naturalised by the consumers of the website. The study will utilise a qualitative research design to unpack the content of the website through the use of qualitative content analysis, focus group interviews and individual in-depth interviews. The research will be informed via a theoretical framework that draws from feminist theory, sport feminism, the concept of intertextuality between media texts, ideology and Stuart Hall’s model of preferred reading. Increasingly mainstream media uses the image of a woman’s body to sell almost anything from men’s razors to margarine and in so far as the reporting of women’s sports is concerned this holds true. Through the research I intend to account for the connotative power of other texts i.e. the men’s magazines and pornography, and how this is likely to be carried through into shaping the meanings that are read off the website. Arguably the production of the NBC texts and images are overdetermined by the existence of similar texts already in transmission in the circuit of culture.
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Roblin, Cynthia. "Crossfire : gender, cyberfeminism and World Wide Web visual culture." Thesis, 2005. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8352/1/MR04484.pdf.
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The main purpose of this thesis is to tread through the sometimes murky waters of cybercultural feminist theory in hope of clarifying the current status of the World Wide Web as an art medium, and its suitability as a vehicle for the expression of contemporary feminist concerns. I have divided this paper into four chapters. The first is a brief revision of the history of communication and computer technology, aimed at revealing the extent of women's exclusion from recorded historical accounts. The second chapter delves into current cybercultural theory dealing with central topics such as: disembodiment, the changing status of the postmodern subject in relation to gender theory, the reconciliation of gender with sexual difference theory, and the gender implications of hegemonic organization of the real vs. virtual experience. These themes are examined in the hope of illuminating some of the political motivations behind cyberfeminist visual culture. The final two chapters of my thesis consist of two case studies: the first focuses on the theoretical writings and work of contemporary web artist Mary Flanagan while the second deals with the web component of this interdisciplinary M.A., available at: http://pastiched.com.
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"Cyberfeminism, the body and the virtual: towards an intercultural perspective." 2002. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6073417.
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Chan Kit Sze Amy.<br>"June 2002."<br>Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 332-354).<br>Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.<br>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web.<br>Mode of access: World Wide Web.<br>Abstracts in English and Chinese.
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Lin, Jo-yin, and 林若吟. "Gazing On Cyberfeminism－Case Studies On Players Of "WoW"﹠"LoL"." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55623262156172683446.
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Nandy, Samita. "Theorizing kineticism in cyberbodies : embodiment and sexuality in the technological culture of cyberspace /." 2003. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR45963.
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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2003. Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture.<br>Typescript. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR45963
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""Going Transnational": Politics of Transnational Feminist Exchange and Discourse in/between India and the United States." Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17913.
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abstract: This study compares some sites, structures, theories and praxis of transnational feminisms in India and the U.S., simultaneously guided by and interrogating contemporary academic feminist theoretical and methodological trends. The goal is twofold: to understand similarities and differences in feminist praxis of two geo-epistemological spaces; and to interrogate the notion and currency of the "transnational" within feminist knowledge-creation. The phenomenon of transnational feminist knowledge-making is interrogated from a philosophical/theoretical and phenomenological/experiential standpoint. The philosophical inquiry is concentrated on the theoretical texts produced on transnational/global/postcolonial feminisms. This inquiry also focuses on some unpublished, uncirculated archival materials that trace the history of academic feminisms and their transnationalization. The phenomenological side focuses on interview and survey data on transnational feminism, gathered from feminist practitioners working in the U.S. and India, as well as being "transmigrant," or "traveling scholars." Digital/institutional ethnography is used to ground the findings in operational spaces of knowledge-making, including cyberspace. This research shows that the global logic of circulation and visibility organize the flow of knowledge as data, narratives and reports from the global south, which are analyzed, clarified and theorized in the global north. Perhaps responding to many critiques on "speaking of" and "speaking for" the "other," the trend to represent third world women as perpetual victims has given way to newer representations and accounts of resistance, collaboration, and activism. However, this creates a fresh "theory-here-activism-there" model of transnational feminism that preserves unequal feminist division of labor. This comparative and critical study focuses not just on feminist discourses in two countries but also their relationships, suggests some viable models of transnational feminism that can preserve epistemic justice, and aims to contribute to the theoretical corpus of transnational feminism.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Ph.D. Gender Studies 2013
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Melo, Natália Farkatt Tabosa de. "Ciberfeminismo na atualidade: uma análise das percepções de mulheres brasileiras face ao feminismo nas redes sociais." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/76028.
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Dissertação de mestrado em Ciências da Comunicação<br>A presente dissertação buscou investigar o modo como o feminismo tem se manifestado por meio das redes sociais no Brasil e como ele é percebido por parte das mulheres brasileiras na atualidade. Para este estudo, começou-se por analisar a trajetória do movimento feminista em uma escala mais global, compreendendo as suas fases (também chamadas de "vagas" em Portugal ou "ondas" no Brasil), de forma a compreender as demandas das mulheres de cada uma dessas épocas e, dessa forma, perceber como as suas lutas foram importantes para os diversos direitos vigentes nas constituições de diversos países.
Em seguida, explanou-se a história do movimento feminista do Brasil, destacando alguns dos nomes pioneiros nas lutas pela educação, saúde e direitos políticos e também durante o período do regime ditatorial militar vigente no Brasil durante duas décadas. Estes estudos auxiliaram a compreensão de como foi construída uma linha de pensamento e edificação das conquistas feministas no país. Ainda há que se falar sobre a evolução dos estudos feministas e os estudos de gênero, os quais estão ligados de tal forma que tornaram bases cruciais para a discussões e debates sobre temas como interseccionalidade, gênero e sexualidade.
Por fim, procedeu-se a uma investigação empírica na qual foi priorizada uma análise qualitativa, na qual o corpus consiste em um questionário respondido por mulheres brasileiras dentro do espectro dos graus acadêmicos de graduação/licenciatura e pós-graduação visando compreender como elas enxergam a relação entre feminismo e redes sociais. Os resultados ilustram a enorme complexidade dos fenômenos e também o recente backlash.<br>This dissertation aimed at investigating the way feminism has been manifested through social media in Brazil and how it is realized by part of the Brazilian women today. For this study, started by analyzing the trajectory of the feminism movement on a global scale, understanding its phases (also called "vagas" in Portugal or "ondas" in Brazil), in order to understand the demands of women in each one of those phases and, in this way, to figure it out how important their efforts were for the different rights in force in the constitutions of different countries.
Furthermore, the history of the feminist movement in Brazil was explained, highlighting some of the pioneer names struggling for education, health and political rights and also during the period of the military dictatorial regime in charge in Brazil for two decades. These studies helped to understand how a line of thought and construction of feminist achievements in the country was built. It is important to mention the evolution of feminist studies and gender studies, which are linked in such a way that they have become crucial basis for discussions and debates on topics such as intersectionality, gender and sexuality.
Finally, an empirical investigation was carried out in which a qualitative analysis was prioritized, where the corpus consists of a survey answered by Brazilian women within the spectrum of bachelor/graduate and postgraduate academic degrees in order to understand how they see the relation between feminism and social media. The results shown the enormous complexity of the phenomenon and also the recent backlash.
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Hinton, Peta Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "'To see a world in a grain of sand...': thinking universality and specificity for a feminist politics of difference." 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/40773.
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Sexual difference has emerged in the last three decades as an enduring question for feminism. Drawing attention to the embodied nature of subjectivity, it enables feminists to counter the more insidious presumptions of universality and the phallocentric economy of knowledge production, and makes possible feminine expressions of subjectivity. At the same time, engaging the nature of difference has opened the way to a more detailed interrogation of identity, specifically the identity of ' woman' and 'the feminine' as categories of feminist analysis. However, tensions have emerged within this field over the concept of community, and how to motivate for political change on the basis of a common identity when the identity of woman is itself contested. In tracing these arguments, this thesis raises a number of considerations about the way difference is understood. It finds that a conceptual commitment to the specificity of the body as properly constitutive of the political can run the risk of sidelining, denigrating and presuming to excise what appears as universal, masculine, or phallocentric. In doing so, it potentially leaves aside a full political engagement with the generative and implicated nature of these terms in the formation of all identity. Consequently, questions around thought, universality, virtuality, and disembodiment may not be given full consideration, with the outcome that feminism may be foreclosing its political domain from important formative concerns. The primary aim of this thesis is to open these categories of analysis to question, to understand how they have been constructed in debates around difference, and to bring to light some of the assumptions which remain axiological to what properly constitutes feminist politics. Engaging Luce Irigaray's reading of divinity for community and identity, this thesis argues that if the implicated nature of identity is taken seriously then the organising categories fundamental to notions of political action and community become a general field of difference which exceeds the reach of feminist politics as it currently stands.
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Sekeleni, Naledi. "Women-driven entrepreneurship within the information and communication technology sector: a grounded analysis of small, micro, and medium enterprises in the Eastern Cape Province." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18719.
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Text in English<br>The thesis is a grounded analysis that seeks to understand small, micro, and medium enterprises (SMME) in the ICT sector that are particularly driven by women entrepreneurs in the Buffalo City and Nelson Mandela metropolitan municipalities of the Eastern Cape Province. Small businesses in the ICT sector owned and driven by women are still an understudied topic in South Africa, since there is not much literature that covers the topic from either a quantitative, or a qualitative perspective. The Eastern Cape Province is not an exception to the dearth of literature that focuses on SMME women-driven entrepreneurship in the ICT sector.
The research interest of this research project emphasises the gap pertaining to the unavailability of gender-disaggregated data that indicates, for example: i) The number of women-owned ICT enterprises; ii) The nature of women-driven entrepreneurial activity in the ICT sector; iii) Evidence of how competitive women-owned ICT enterprises are; iv) Sustainable job creation by these ICT enterprises; iv) Availability of women with ICT skills; and v) Women who are occupying ICT core positions.
These factors strengthen the case for employing a grounded approach to explore this substantive area of investigation.
The researcher has no doubt that this study is one of the first studies to examine women-driven entrepreneurship of SMMEs in the ICT sector of the Eastern Cape Province, hence the adoption of a Multi-Grounded Theory (MGT) approach. This methodology is anchored in a qualitative approach that explores this phenomenon about which little is known. A moderate constructivist and interpretive approach guided by the voices of women entrepreneurs was employed to provide a meaningful account that added depth and breadth to the description and explanation of the status quo in relation to women-driven entrepreneurship in SMMEs.
Emerging data from in-depth interviews conducted with 12 SMME women entrepreneurs and two experts from the ICT industry was matched with the two theories of entrepreneurship and cyberfeminism. These theories provided a theoretical lens through which data could be analysed and interpreted. This empirical and theory driven approach assisted in grounding the substantive theory.
The research objectives provided answers to the empirical research questions that sought to gain an in-depth understanding of women entrepreneurs‘ perspective about: i) Conceptualisation of entrepreneurship and ICT technology as a concept; ii) Conceptualisation of the ICT sector; iii) The perceived importance of the ICT sector as an enabler in promoting SMME women-driven entrepreneurship; iv) How SMME women entrepreneurs use ICT as a core product and service; and v) The role played by government and the private sector in promoting SMME women-driven entrepreneurship in the ICT sector of the Eastern Cape Province.
The findings uncovered concerns that women entrepreneurs perceived as having an influence on women-driven entrepreneurship. The findings included the manner in which women entrepreneurs responded to these issues.
The findings for example, highlighted gender sensitivity issues which were of great concern to women entrepreneurs. Gender discrimination was amongst the key issues identified that lead to women‘s marginalisation inside the ICT sector, this entailing: i) ICT underrepresentation in core ICT environments; ii) Inaccessible tender opportunities; iii) Inaccessible funding; iv) Limited ICT knowledge and skills; and v) Lack of technical support.
Considering the fact that SMME women-driven entrepreneurship within the ICT sector is on the radar screen of both government and the private sector‘s developmental agenda, the gap in research and literature presented a case that the study intended to address by developing a substantive theory which could contribute toward the transformative change in SMME women-driven entrepreneurship in the ICT sector of the province.<br>Communication Science<br>D.Litt. et Phil. (Communication Science)
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Mousinho, Fabíola Cunha. "Ciberfeminismo em 140 caracteres: o caso da #EuParo no twitter." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/15613.
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O desenvolvimento da internet, dos sites de redes sociais e das suas ferramentas transformou as
dinâmicas de interação entre os indivíduos, sendo estas mudanças também perceptíveis em várias outras
esferas. Não estando imune às relações de poder e contrapoder, o espaço digital configura-se como mais
um local de disputa e, com base nessa premissa, os movimentos sociais reconfiguram os seus repertórios
de ação.
Acompanhando as transições na sociedade, os velhos, os novos e os novíssimos movimentos sociais têm
as suas estruturas e dinâmicas adaptadas e vê-se o fortalecimento do ativismo digital como uma
alternativa de atuação política. Neste aspecto, o movimento feminista e, em especial, o ciberfeminismo
social apresenta-se como um exemplo marcante do uso das redes sociais online como meio de
informação e mobilização. Através de mecanismos mais criativos, como blogs, vídeos, protestos virtuais
com o uso da "hashtag", os coletivos feministas aproveitam-se da autonomia comunicativa para propagar
as suas reivindicações.
Com o objetivo de compreender como as narrativas coletivas são estabelecidas no site de rede social
Twitter investigou-se a rede de conversação em torno da partilha da "hashtag" EuParo e da Greve
Internacional de Mulheres, ocorrida no dia 08 de março de 2017. Para isso, fez-se uma recolha de 4078
tweets no dia 08 de março através da ferramenta Twitonomy que permitiu a identificação das vozes
dominantes, dos pontos principais de preocupação, do posicionamento e comprometimento das
participantes e também o alinhamento entre a #EuParo e outras temáticas, além do reconhecimento das
estratégias e os principais conteúdos que circularam neste protesto.<br>The development of the internet, social networking sites and their tools has transformed the dynamics
of interaction between individuals and these changes are also noticeable in several other spheres. Not
being immune to relations of power and counterpower, the digital space configures itself as another area
of dispute and, based on this premise, social movements reconfigure their repertoires of action.
Accompanying the transitions in society, the old, the new and the ‘new new’ social movements have
their structures and dynamics adapted and the strengthening of digital activism is seen as an alternative
of political action. In this respect, the feminist movement and the social cyberfeminism is a striking
example of the use of online social networks as a means of information and mobilization. Through more
creative mechanisms such as blogs, videos, virtual protests with the use of hashtag, feminist collectives
take advantage of communicative autonomy to propagate their claims.
In order to understand how the collective narratives are established in Twitter, the conversation network
established around the sharing of the hashtag EuParo and the International Strike of Women, which
occurred on March 8 / 2017, was analyzed. Therefore, a total of 4078 tweets were collected on March
8th through the Twitonomy tool which enabled the identification of the dominant voices, the main points
of concern, the positioning and commitment of the participants and also in the alignment between
#EuParo and others, as well as recognizing how the strategy and main contents circulated in this protest.
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(9827711), Patricia Preece. "Oscillations: Exploring a Performance Ecosystem Through a Sonic Cyberfeminisms Lens." Thesis, 2023. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Oscillations_Exploring_a_Performance_Ecosystem_Through_a_Sonic_Cyberfeminisms_Lens/26953810.
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The audiovisual installation Oscillations turns irons and ironing boards into electronic instruments, in an attempt to deconstruct stereotypical ideas of gender and its assigned roles. The creative practice project aims to investigate the relationships we have with domestic objects and ponder their structures and significance through the design and performance of an interactive ecosystem. Oscillations, both the installation and exegesis, use a sonic cyberfeminisms lens to critically explore aesthetic and relational hierarchies at the intersection of sound, gender, and technology. Three irons and ironing boards have been hacked and retrofitted with embedded electronic instruments that together create a complex feedback network. While the audience is invited to physically interact with the iron instruments and manipulate samples, the sonic state of the installation also changes based on the audio information detected in the environment . Sonic cyberfeminisms is used to reframe discursive music technology practices and within the creation of a work that playfully deconstructs and questions dominant narratives. Through the creation of the audiovisual installation Oscillations, I have identified the need for ongoing creative practice research that transforms theoretical perspectives into creative outputs. Creative works have the potential to bridge the gap between academy and industry, and to contribute to social change.
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Du, Preez Amanda Anida. "Gendered bodies and new technologies." Thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2089.
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Gendered bodies and new technologies has one founding premise, namely that embodiment constitutes a non-negotiable prerequisite for human life. Although this may seem like an obvious statement, it is a statement that needs to be affirmed in the virtual age wherein we live. New technologies in most of its forms tend to discredit the embodied aspects of human life and instead concentrate on the disembodied aspects thereof. Among new technologies the following are specifically noted: microelectronics, telecommunication networks, nano-technology, virtual reality, computer-mediated communications and other forms of computer technologies. In short, “new technologies” refer to all things digital. I explore the issue of embodiment from a gendered perspective, seeing that the female body is the embodiment most likely to be discarded, not only in metaphysical systems, but also in developments within new technologies. The main focus of my gendered analysis is on the visual image and more specifically as it manifests in cinema, advertisements, the Internet, interactive artwork and television. The critical perspective that foregrounds my approach is that of the fairly new field of cyberfeminism. The main concern of cyberfeminism being a critical engagement of women’s position in terms of new technologies. In this regard, cyberfeminism does not perpetuate an anti-technology stance, but rather embraces technology by emphasising the embodied nature of our existence.
I have identified four body types to explore the interactions between bodies and new technologies. They are: the techno-transcendent body; the techno-enhanced body; the marked body and the cyborg body. The four body types differ in the way in which gendered embodiment is negotiated in its interaction with new technologies and these are highlighted and discussed in the four chapters dealing with these four body types.<br>English<br>D.Litt.et Phil.
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Bubeníčková, Kateřina. "Dokonalá žena. Analýza filmových postav umělých ženských bytostí z perspektivy teorií postmoderny a jejích přístupů k tělu a konstituování identity." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353140.
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This thesis will be focused on the analysis of the basic types of the female artificial movie characters - the beings connecting "femininity" (humanity) and technology. These characters holds the external female sexual signs or the characteristics stereotypically perceived as female (e.g. cyborg/cyborg woman, android woman, robotess). My issue will be examinated from the perspective of postmodern approach to the process of shaping their bodies and identities in relation to the narrative movie structure. The characters will be divided into categories based on their dominating physical and "social" function in the story. The subsequent identification and interpretation of physicality, identity and relations with other characters of the narrative will be based not only on principles of semiotic analysis, but will take into account especially the approach of postmodernism. The main theoretical basis for this paper will be the theory of poststructuralism and so called post theories - a theory of posthumanism, transhumanism and cyberfeminism.
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Bubeníčková, Kateřina. "Analýza filmových postav kyboržek z perspektivy postmoderních a post-teoretických přístupů k tělu a konstituování identity." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-344129.
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The thesis focuses on the analysis of the basic types of the film characters portraying artificial women: creatures who combine "femininity" (humanity) and technology, and who show female sexual characteristics or features that are stereotypically perceived as female-like (e.g. female cyborgs, female androids, female robots). The characters are analyzed and approached from the perspective of postmodern philosophy and post-theory studies; the forming of their body and identity is analyzed on the account of the narrative. The aim of the thesis is to explore whether the film representations of female cyborgs are similar to real cyborgs in the sense that they bring liberalization from the point if view of posthumanism and cyberfeminism, or whether they can only be perceived as the prime form of the Foucaltian body-as-machine, i.e. perfectly controllable precise technicist bodies which are created by the current power dispositions. The characters are divided into four categories, based on their predominant physical and "social" functions: a sexbot, a domesticated artificial woman, a destructive artificial woman and an emotional/intelligent artificial woman. The following identification and interpretation of the body, identity, relationships and the narrative structures are based on the theoretical...
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Bubeníčková, Kateřina. "Dokonalá žena : analýza filmových postav umělých ženských bytostí z perspektivy postmoderních a post-teoretických přístupů k tělu a konstituování identity." Master's thesis, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-353977.
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The thesis focuses on the analysis of the basic types of the film characters portraying artificial women: creatures who combine "femininity" (humanity) and technology, and who show female sexual characteristics or features that are stereotypically perceived as female-like (e.g. female cyborgs, female androids, female robots). The characters are analyzed and approached from the perspective of postmodern philosophy and post-theory studies; the forming of their body and identity is analyzed on the account of the narrative. The aim of the thesis is to explore whether the film representations of female cyborgs are similar to real cyborgs in the sense that they bring liberalization from the point if view of posthumanism and cyberfeminism, or whether they can only be perceived as the prime form of the Foucaltian body-as-machine, i.e. perfectly controllable precise technicist bodies which are created by the current power dispositions. The characters are divided into four categories, based on their predominant physical and "social" functions: a sexbot, a domesticated artificial woman, a destructive artificial woman and an emotional/intelligent artificial woman. The following identification and interpretation of the body, identity, relationships and the narrative structures are based on the theoretical...