Feminist view on digital communication Flashcards
What feminists/organisations see digital communication as a positive?
- Haraway (A Cyborg Manifesto)
- 4th Way (‘muted group’)
- Larasi campaigned to address racist/sexist stereotypes in music vids, just as students banned ‘blurred lines’ in many university campuses.
- Bates and Chemaly (campaigning)
What feminists/organisations see digital communication as a negative?
- Atlaccki (exploitation from globalisation)
- Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre
- The Centre for Social Justice
Why can digital communication be seen as a negative according to feminists?
- It keeps a patriarchal, hegemonic society.
- It is a new way for women and children to be exploited.
- Globalisation along side digital communication has given criminals new opportunities to exploit already vulnerable groups. They are at more risk.
Why can digital communication be seen as a positive according to feminists?
- Tech advances offer the possibility for women to create new forms of their identity.
- Problems with feminism and capitalism might be overcome through greater understanding of identity.
- New forms of digital global communication are being used as tools that are allowing women to build a strong popular reactive movement online. Give voice to a ‘muted group’. (Cochrane)
- FemTechNet write blogs about the structures in place that have kept women from engaging in digital humanities.
Who talks about a ‘cyborg manifesto’?
Haraway
What does Haraway suggest about technology?
- It offers the possibility for women to create new forms of identity not bound by traditional ideas of the patriarchy.
- Through a greater understanding of identity, problems with the patriarchy might be overcome.
- What is considered female is socially constructed. Cyborgs allow people to rise above gender.
What are Cyborgs?
Part machine, part human entities.
What are examples of new forms of digital communication being used as tools to bring about movements for women?
- Bates and Chemaly: Set up a campaign against misogynistic pages on Facebook, convincing owners to change their moderation policies
- Larasi campaigned to address racist/sexist stereotypes in music vids, just as students banned ‘blurred lines’ in many university campuses.
- Also helped draw attention to women in Afghanistan, and their position as a ‘muted group’. (Cochrane)
What statistics did the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) report in 2012/13?
- 790 children were subject to safe guarding/protection as a result of online activity.
- There were 1900 reports relating to child sexual exploitation.
What organisation researched child exploitation?
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP)
What are the impacts of exploitation of women?
- Physical, sexual, and emotional abuse.
- Women becoming a commodity.
- Sexualised violent imagery becoming seen as less serious.
- Women regarded as sex objects.
- Exposing pictures of ex partners (revenge porn) provides a new form of social control. Few men are prosecuted or detected.
What are the negatives of globalisation and digital communication?
- It gives criminals new opportunities to exploit vulnerable groups.
- Those who hold power have limited laws and don’t regulate the media to protect women and children.
- Media has made activities unregulated and organised.
- The illegal movement of people has become so much easier to coordinate and as a result, people are trafficked.
- Atlaccki: Led UIV efforts to fight organised crime, said exploitation has been one of the most undesirable consequences of globalisation, but it is not currently a priority by powerful institutions.
What did the Centre of Social Justice find relating to sex trafficking and slavery?
- Research shows that large proportion of slavery (domestic, forced labour/criminality) cases are never recognised or reported and do not appear in any statistics or measures the size of the problem.
- In 2011, 94% of those identified as trafficked into sexual exploitation were women.
- Of the potential victims of modern slavery identified by the UK Human Trafficking Centre, 40% were male.
What are some critiques of the feminist views of digital communication?
- Ignore wider social structures. (Marxists)
- Gender is fluid. (Postmodernism)
- Are new laws that protect women. (Online Safety Bill)
- Are critical of globalisation and tech, but also acknowledge the positives.
In 2011, what % those identified as trafficked into sexual exploitation were women?
94%
