Billion Worlds Lab

DiGITAL fEMINISMS

This course explores how conceptions of and engagements with feminism and social justice emerge in relation to media, culture, and politics. We’ll trace how feminist dialogues– from the “pre-digital” era to present day– inform mediated activism, while looking toward how changing political-economic contexts are intertwined with evolving mediated cultures. By understanding mediated cultures as co-created with social and political power structures, we see not only how race, gender, disability, class, and location differentiate experiences with media, but also how power is harnessed through media. We will explore a variety of texts — such as TV shows, academic scholarship, memes, viral videos, and pop culture writing — to analyze digital feminisms from a number of angles. By looking at how a range of creators, artists, and scholars engage with media, we’ll collaborate on envisioning the creative and activist possibilities of mediated feminist futures. Here is a link to the syllabus.