Gender and Digital Culture - Between Irreconcilability and the Datalogical

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Helen Thornham, Thornham Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138569959
• ISBN: 978-1-138-56995-9
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Gender studies, gender groups