Digital and networked by default? Women's organisations and the social imaginary of networked feminism

被引:50
作者
Fotopoulou, Aristea [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lancaster, Dept Sociol, Media, Lancaster LA1 4YN, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;
关键词
Connectivity; digital sisterhood; networked feminism; political engagement; social imaginary; RESISTANCE;
D O I
10.1177/1461444814552264
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
This article analyses the social imaginary of networked feminism' as an ideological construct of legitimate political engagement, drawing on ethnographic study conducted with London-based women's organisations. For many women's groups, the desire to connect echoes libertarian visions of Web 2.0 as an open' and shared' space, and it is encouraged by widely circulating governmental narratives of digital inclusion. In the context of public services becoming digital by default, and severe funding cuts to volunteer organisations in the United Kingdom, feminist organisations are invited to revise the allocation of resources, in order to best accommodate the setting up of digital platforms, and at the same time, to maintain their political and social aims. It is argued that there are tensions between the imaginaries of a digital sisterhood' and the material realities of women's organisations: age, lack of resources and media literacy were found to be the three most important factors that modulate participation, and in many cases become new types of exclusions of access to publicity and recognition. By interrogating the circulation of dominant liberal narratives of digital engagement and digital inclusion that motivate new communicative practices between many feminist organisations today, the article offers a fuller understanding of networked media and activism for social justice.
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页码:989 / 1005
页数:17
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