Amanda Menking
Biographic Data
| ID | 123286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Menking |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Menking |
| SIGNATURE | MENKING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7672-3155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Decolonizing the Internet by Decolonizing Ourselves: Challenging Epistemic Injustice through Feminist Practice
Seventy-five percent of the world’s online population is from the global South, and nearly half is projected to be women. Yet public knowledge on the internet - exemplified by Wikipedia - is primarily constructed by (white) men from western Europe and North America. One in ten Wikipedia editors are estimated to self-identify as female. In other words, the internet of the majority is produced by the minority. But Wikipedia is only one example of t…
Wp: NOT, WP:NPOV, and Other Stories Wikipedia Tells Us: A Feminist Critique of Wikipedia's Epistemology
Wikipedia has become increasingly prominent in online search results, serving as an initial path for the public to access "facts," and lending plausibility to its autobiographical claim to be "the sum of all human knowledge." However, this self-conception elides Wikipedia's role as the world's largest online site of encyclopedic knowledge production. A repository for established facts, Wikipedia is also a social space in which the facts themselve…
No Prejudice Here: Examining Social Identity Work in Starter Pack Memes
As a performance venue, online social spaces afford users a variety of ways to express themselves. Many of these expressions include social identity work, such as the articulation, affirmation, or policing of a shared identity. In this study, we examine one online space in which users engage in social identity work: a Reddit forum (r/starterpacks) that primarily generates and discusses image memes of a very specific format: the 'starter pack.' Us…
On the production of the spirit of feminism
column Share on On the production of the spirit of feminism Authors: Ingrid Erickson Rutgers University Rutgers UniversityView Profile , Libby Hemphill Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Amanda Menking University of Washington University of WashingtonView Profile , Stephanie Steinhardt Cornell University Cornell UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 5September + Octobe…
No Prejudice Here: Examining Social Identity Work in Starter Pack Memes
As a performance venue, online social spaces afford users a variety of ways to express themselves. Many of these expressions include social identity work, such as the articulation, affirmation, or policing of a shared identity. In this study, we examine one online space in which users engage in social identity work: a Reddit forum (r/starterpacks) that primarily generates and discusses image memes of a very specific format: the 'starter pack.' Us…
Wp: NOT, WP:NPOV, and Other Stories Wikipedia Tells Us: A Feminist Critique of Wikipedia's Epistemology
Wikipedia has become increasingly prominent in online search results, serving as an initial path for the public to access "facts," and lending plausibility to its autobiographical claim to be "the sum of all human knowledge." However, this self-conception elides Wikipedia's role as the world's largest online site of encyclopedic knowledge production. A repository for established facts, Wikipedia is also a social space in which the facts themselve…
On the production of the spirit of feminism
column Share on On the production of the spirit of feminism Authors: Ingrid Erickson Rutgers University Rutgers UniversityView Profile , Libby Hemphill Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Amanda Menking University of Washington University of WashingtonView Profile , Stephanie Steinhardt Cornell University Cornell UniversityView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 5September + Octobe…
No Prejudice Here: Examining Social Identity Work in Starter Pack Memes
As a performance venue, online social spaces afford users a variety of ways to express themselves. Many of these expressions include social identity work, such as the articulation, affirmation, or policing of a shared identity. In this study, we examine one online space in which users engage in social identity work: a Reddit forum (r/starterpacks) that primarily generates and discusses image memes of a very specific format: the 'starter pack.' Us…
Decolonizing the Internet by Decolonizing Ourselves: Challenging Epistemic Injustice through Feminist Practice
Seventy-five percent of the world’s online population is from the global South, and nearly half is projected to be women. Yet public knowledge on the internet - exemplified by Wikipedia - is primarily constructed by (white) men from western Europe and North America. One in ten Wikipedia editors are estimated to self-identify as female. In other words, the internet of the majority is produced by the minority. But Wikipedia is only one example of t…
Wp: NOT, WP:NPOV, and Other Stories Wikipedia Tells Us: A Feminist Critique of Wikipedia's Epistemology
Wikipedia has become increasingly prominent in online search results, serving as an initial path for the public to access "facts," and lending plausibility to its autobiographical claim to be "the sum of all human knowledge." However, this self-conception elides Wikipedia's role as the world's largest online site of encyclopedic knowledge production. A repository for established facts, Wikipedia is also a social space in which the facts themselve…
Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (2 works) · Social Media and Politics (2 works) · The Internet (2 works)