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Cfp: Postdigital Feminisms: Platformed-Lives, Labour, Intimacies, and Activism

'Although the early twenty-first century fuelled #feminist-hopes that the Internet would revolutionise #women and #girls lives, #digital #platforms have not necessarily helped society to cast-off the shackles of patriarchy. A #cyberfeminist utopia has been replaced by digital #labour practices, both paid and unpaid, that remain acutely gendered. While networked #intimacies, desires, and #sexualities have proliferated, creating radical potential, they have also generated #bigbusiness for the #technology companies that mediatize and profit from forms of gender-based #violence and objectification...'

Details here: https://link.springer.com/journal/42438/updates/27727678

Guest Editors

Zoe Hurley, American University of Sharjah, UAE

Adrienne Evans, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University

Abstracts, and all other enquiries, are due to both editors by 1 February 2025.