Feminist Flashcards
(17 cards)
STATS pos
•Use social media more than men
Eg Pinterest 90%
STATS neg
•only 13% women contribute to Wikipedia
•17% of twitters most influential twitter users
6 points
- Digital forms of communication is positive
- Digital communications with the patriarchal apparatus
- Digital communication mutes the voice of women
- Digital communication exploits women
- How feminists gave respond to issues
- 4th wave of feminism
- Digital forms of communication is positive
Cyborg manifesto
Who made it
Haraway
- Digital forms of communication is positive
Cyborg manifesto -Haraway
What is it
Transcend oppressed identity by making a new digital one
- Digital forms of communication is positive
Cyborg manifesto -Haraway
Why?
•women need to participate in technological advances so men can’t dominate
•women can’t be essentialists (grouped together)
- Digital forms of communication is positive
Nakumura
Women from ethnic minorities are gaining increasing presence in digital communication
- Digital forms of communication is positive
Website
Every day sexism project
- Digital communications with the patriarchal apparatus
Meaning
Patriarchal apparatus - portraying stereotypically / ignoring women
Male gaze
- Digital communication mutes the voice of women
What’s the muted groups theory
Groups that have little power in society
- Digital communication mutes the voice of women
Groups that have little power in society
Name of theory?
Muted groups theory
- Digital communications exploit women
Centre for social justice study
- Digital communications exploit women
Researched 180 individuals
Study?
Centre for social justice study
- Digital communications exploit women
Why?
Globalisation gives access to info and emphasises pre existing exploitation because gov doesn’t take it seriously
- Digital communications exploit women
Child exploitation stats
CEOP
18,888 child sexual exploitation
- Feminists response to issues
•FemTechNet -online feminist courses
•Metoo movement
•every day sexism
- Fourth wave of feminism
4 waves of feminism
- 1800s
- Suffragette
- Individuality
4 digital