Blog Posts

In the Beginning, There Were Listservs and LiveJournals

This unit covered the beginning of what we consider now to be Digital Feminisms, including the evolution of the term from Cyberfeminism. Through a variety of articles describing the presence of blogs and blogging, women online and feminist media, we began our journey of how feminism has been been adopted online, and how the online has shaped the movement IRL.

Identity and the Digital

This unit takes a look at some of today’s examples of Digital Feminisms. This includes looking at different online digital spaces and the makeup of the people that constitute these spaces, how certain digital spaces facilitate particular identities, and how the digital space can be both an inclusive and exclusive environment for providing both knowledge about Digital Feminisms and community for marginalized groups of people.

“Hacking”, “Yacking”, and Transformation

This unit takes a deeper look at the field of Digital Humanities. In particular, we focused on what the relationship between studying Digital Humanities and the actual act of “hacking” should be, how women have and will continue to be an integral part of “hacking”, what barriers exist in the technical world that discourage women and other marginalized groups from entering the field and how to dissolve them, and how technology has been actively transforming society.