1st Edition
Gender and Digital Culture Between Irreconcilability and the Datalogical
By Helen Thornham
Copyright 2019
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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Gender and Digital Culture offers a unique contribution to the theoretical and methodological understandings of digital technology as inherently gendered and classed. The silences within, through and from the systems we experience every day, create inequalities that are deeply affective and constitute very real forms of algorithmic vulnerability. The book explores these lived and mundane... Read more
Chapter 1: Gender, Irreconcilability and the Datalogical Anthropocene Chapter 2: Being data(logical) Chapter 3: Being accountable: practices, images, infrastructure Chapter 4: Being known: autom-data-ed bodies, maternal subjectivity Chapter 5: Gender and the digital mundane Chapter 6: Gender and the digital mundane
Biography
Helen Thornham is Associate Professor in Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds, UK. Her publications include Ethnographies of the Videogame (2011, Renewing Feminisms (2013) and Content Cultures (2014). Her research focuses on gender and technological mediations, data and digital inequalities.
