Feminist media : : participatory spaces, networks and cultural citizenship / / Elke Zobl, Ricarda Drüeke (editors).

While feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed, alternative media to transport their messages, to challenge the status quo, and to spin novel social processes, this topic has been an under-researched area. Hence, this book explores the processes of women's and feminist medi...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript,, [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Critical media studies ; Bd. 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (293 p.)
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  • 1 Table of Contents 5 Foreword 9 Introduction 11 Feminist Media Production in Europe: A Research Report 21 Feminist Media as Alternative Media? 55 Archiving Feminist Grassroots Media 73 Hand-Made Memories: Remediating Cultural Memory in DIY Feminist Networks 87 GENDER JAMMING. Or: Yes, We Are. 98 Making Feminist Media: Feminist Media Activists Share their Views 110 Streetwise Politics: Feminist and Lesbian Grassroots Activism in Ljubljana 123 "It's a Hard Job Being an Indian Feminist" 136 Choreographing Coalition in Cyber-Space: Post Natyam's Politico-Aesthetic Negotiations 146 On the Aesthetics of Self-Representation: Mustached "Fe male" Youth on Flickr.com 159 Struggling for Feminist Design: The Role of Users in Producing and Constructing Web 2.0 Media 170 Using New Technologies to Enter the Public Sphere, Second Wave Style 182 Cultural Citizenship. Participation by and through Media 197 Online Cultures and Future Girl Citizens 213 Rethinking Political Communication and the Internet: A Perspective from Cultural Studies and Gender Studies 226 Digital Storytelling to Empower Sex Workers: Warning, Relieving and Liberating 238 Pedagogy of Hope: Feminist Zines 250 From DIY to Collaborative Fields of Experimentation: Feminist Media and Cultural Production Towards Social Change - A Visual Contribution 265 Feminist Media Production in Europe: A Selected List of Projects 272 Author Biographies 288