Callie Ingram (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
“Rooted as it is by feminism, cyberfeminism is an imperfect umbrella term,” Mindy Seu frames her archival project Cyberfeminism Index.* Though it traces the same exclusions and western biases of feminist history, she writes, the Web 1.0 term “cyberfeminism” also provides a quick shorthand for the much broader expanse of art, activism, community, and scholarship of its many branches, including “Cyberfeminism 2.0, black cyberfeminism, xenofeminism, post-cyber feminism, glitch feminism, Afrofuturism, and hackfeministas, transhackfeminism, 넷페미 (netfemi), 女权之声 (feminist voices), among others."
Today, in the uncertain transition between Web 2.0’s era of Big Data and whatever comes next, the contemporary digital landscape continues to provoke feminist responses. This roundtable will explore recent works that respond to and develop contemporary cyberfeminisms, technofeminisms, or other critical feminist approaches to new media and technology. Presentations might focus on how contemporary writers, artists, and activists respond to tech issues (such as AI & machine learning, deepfakes, hashtag activism, data mining, extractivism, digital censorship, new media literacy, inequitable access, etc.); on particular literary, cultural, or theoretical works that use or transform new media for feminist purposes; or other relevant themes.
*Mindy Seu. Cyberfeminism Index, cyberfeminismindex.com/about.