Developing a corporeal cyberfeminism

Beyond cyberutopia

Bibliographic Data

ID12655528
AuthorsJessica E Brophy (University of Maine, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume12
Issue6
Pages929-945
Publication date2010-02-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461444809350901
OpenAlexW2133207612
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited31

This article discusses — and rejects — cyberutopia, an idealized theory of internet use that requires users to leave their bodies behind when online. The author instead calls for a cyberfeminist perspective in relation to studying the internet and other new media, centrally locating corporeality and embodiment. The underutilized concept of intra-agency is then employed to develop liminality in relation to the experience of going online. The author then outlines different versions of cyberfeminism and endorses that which addresses the relationships between the lived experiences of users and the technology itself. The article concludes with a call for theorists to expand and enrich the concepts used to study new media

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Epistemology · Liminality · Media studies · New media · Perspective (graphical · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Artificial Intelligence