1st Edition
Feminist Digital Methods
Introduction: Why Digital Methods? Why a Feminist Lens?
Aparajita Bhandari and Sarah York-Bertram
Section I: Feminist Digital Methods as Interventions into Digital Tools, Platforms, and Systems
Chapter 1 "You Must Be a Patriot Before You Can Be a Feminist": The Anti-Feminist Discursive
Strategies of Cyber-Nationalists in Chinese Social Media
Lucy Lu Cai
Chapter 2 Feminist Collaborative Writing and Future Nonlinearity in Uncertain Times: Expansive Experiments Beyond the Limits of Twine
Anna Lee-Popham and Sarah Choukah
Chapter 3 Algorithmic Bias and Feminist Futures: Unmasking Power Dynamics in Artificial Intelligence
Christo El Morr
Chapter 4 Datafied Bodies: The Intersection of Technology, Gender, and Healthcare in a Posthumanist Era in Feminist Digital Methods
Sarah Hasbini and Nordiah Newell
Chapter 5 Toward Embodied Seeing-Knowing through Blind and Partially Sighted Optics: Rethinking Blind Methodologies and Digital Accessibility in Disability Research
Yoonmee Han
Section II: Feminist Digital Methods as Praxis of Care
Chapter 6 The (S)low Femme Method: Contours of Care in Queer Digital Participant–Observer Research
Andi Schwartz
Chapter 7 Uprising Through Care as Resistance
Lynn Yu Ling Ng
Chapter 8 On Choosing the Bear
Caroline Abbott and Jessica M. DeWitt
Chapter 9 “For Anyone Who Needs This”: Methodological Reflections on Studying Healing Hashtags on TikTok
Chandler Mordecai
Chapter 10 Radical Reimagination of Scholarly Futures Through Care and Collaboration
Dana Burton and Shweta Krishnan
Chapter 11 Questions of Care: Embracing an Intersectional Feminist Perspective for Ethical Social Media Research
Lauren McLean and Kiera Obbard
Section III: Feminist Digital Methods as Public Pedagogy
Chapter 12 Hybrid Archives: Exploring the Intersection of Digital and Analog Memory in Black Apocalyptic Futures
Deja Beamon
Chapter 13 Application of Feminist Principles of Data Visualization to the Project “Designing for Intersectional Fat Liberation”
Brooke Hull
Chapter 14 The Mother of All Game Jams: Feminist Game Design, Motherhood, and Community Engagement
Lauren Cruikshank, Sarah Stang, and Emily Veysey
Chapter 15 “I Want To Be Invisible”: Alternative Reality Games and Feminist Digital Storytelling
Yifat Shaik, Alex Borkowski, and SK Sabada
Biography
Aparajita Bhandari is an Assistant Professor of Critical Digital Studies in the Department of English at the University of Waterloo with a PhD in Communication from Cornell University.
Sarah York-Bertram is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Winnipeg and a co-organizer of the Feminist Digital Methods Research Cluster.
