Shana Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 4895798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shana Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shana |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5828-6345 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Policing ‘what a feminist looks like’
This article examines how the popular feminist slogan ‘this is what a feminist looks like’ has evolved over the past decade in response to increasingly misogynist and racist socio-political and technocultural conditions. By comparing the visual and discursive life of the phrase in 2014 with its presence in today's digital and algorithmic cultures, we trace how the slogan has shifted from a celebratory affirmation of feminist visibility to a conte…
Infrastructures of Listening
Podcasting has become a central infrastructure for the circulation and normalization of misogynistic and extremist ideologies, yet the scale, length, and affective density of audio content pose significant challenges for critical qualitative research. This paper introduces ManoWhisper, a feminist computational research infrastructure designed to support the large-scale analysis of misogynistic podcast ecosystems while preserving the contextual de…
All You Have to Do is Publicly Execute a Few Women Who Have Lied”
This paper examines the intensification and mainstreaming of online misogyny in the volatile post-pandemic digital landscape and the affective labor of feminist and queer counter-response. We argue that the concurrent exhaustion of women and gender minorities, disproportionately burdened with care labour, and the radicalization of men into alt-right manosphere discourse during the pandemic exacerbated existing gendered power dynamics, forming the…
Men are very scary out there
This article argues that the viral 2024 Bear vs. Man social media phenomenon that trended across TikTok, Instagram, and X offers significant insights into the post #MeToo landscape, elucidating the continued sociopolitical and technocultural uncertainties around rape culture. As digital technologies change, the means through which marginalised genders resist, retaliate, refuse, and rebuke misogyny and its intersecting oppressions concomitantly ch…
Feminist Communities of Practice
In the face of academic antagonism, this article argues that feminists must build caring and careful communities of practice to sustain ourselves. In it we explore the importance of creating intentional, feminist-oriented spaces of actionable solidarity to protect activists and academics from institutional antagonisms. Through our encounters as researchers working within feminist archives, and as academics who are part of feminist research collec…
Dwelling with feminist media archives in the age of big data
Dwelling as method
This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements of affect, history, culture, politics, and resistance within feminist digital media artifacts. Using our method of digital dwelling, we analyze three sets of carousel posts on Instagram from three different accounts: Interse…
Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance
Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies foregrounds the importance of storytelling for coalition building, solidarity, and performative assembly. Bringing together scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, this book offers creative explorations, analyses, personal stories, and case studies of digital feminist activism that speak directly to the many ways that feminist communities as…
Meme-ifying Data
This article argues for the importance of the memetic tactic of bricolage within contemporary social media science communication for its capacity to curate and distill approachable, accessible, and shareable Covid-19 content. We suggest that the social media communication practices of what we call ‘public health influencers’ (PHIs) on Instagram, Tik Tok, and Twitter make use of memetic bricolage techniques of stop motion, collage, infographics, a…
All Your Faves Are Problematic”
This article looks at the work of the Drunk Feminist Film (DFF) collective from Toronto, Canada. DFF screenings offer interactive in-person and online events that combine watching popular Hollywood films with simultaneous live commentary, audience participation, and hashtag dialogs on Twitter. The article looks specifically at how the multiplatform hybridity of online and embodied participation allows feminist audiences to create collective spect…
What Do You (Really) Meme? Pandemic Memes as Social Political Repositories
The commentary examines coronavirus memes circulating around forms of generational conflict that have risen from experiences of self-isolation. Employing participant-observation methods within online spaces of meme circulation, the commentary analyzes the political, social, and affective aspects of the memes considered. The commentary offers insight into how we operationalize our social media spaces in times of deep uncertainty in order collectiv…
Feminist futures
In this article we argue that the #MeToo movement contributes tocombatting sexual harassment by acting as techné (tools), which offer a range of poietic (world making) possibilities given the contexts under which #MeToocirculates. We situate #MeToo as pharmakon (creation and constraint)to highlight how the movement enables new feminist possibilities for action and simultaneously restricts the movement’s limits. Drawing on existing coverage of #Me…
Mobilizing the “Multimangle”
This research study is focused on new materialist modes of social inquiry and in particular the material-discursive practices that situate all bodies, human and nonhuman, in relations of matter and mattering. The present study investigates the work of the Mobile Art Studio (MAS), a transitory creative research lab that brings participatory art into pub-lic space to develop greater community engagement with issues of social justice. We explore MAS…
Voicing Dissonance
This article examines how sound was used as an effective tool of formal resistance in the work of influential feminist filmmakers, Carolee Schneemann (United States), Gunvor Nelson (Sweden), and Joyce Wieland (Canada). While their work differs in both aesthetic approach and thematics, their strategic use of sound as a point of disruption within their early films set an important standard for future feminist experimental film practice. The article…
What Do You (Really) Meme? Pandemic Memes as Social Political Repositories
The commentary examines coronavirus memes circulating around forms of generational conflict that have risen from experiences of self-isolation. Employing participant-observation methods within online spaces of meme circulation, the commentary analyzes the political, social, and affective aspects of the memes considered. The commentary offers insight into how we operationalize our social media spaces in times of deep uncertainty in order collectiv…
Dwelling as method
This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements of affect, history, culture, politics, and resistance within feminist digital media artifacts. Using our method of digital dwelling, we analyze three sets of carousel posts on Instagram from three different accounts: Interse…
Feminist futures
In this article we argue that the #MeToo movement contributes tocombatting sexual harassment by acting as techné (tools), which offer a range of poietic (world making) possibilities given the contexts under which #MeToocirculates. We situate #MeToo as pharmakon (creation and constraint)to highlight how the movement enables new feminist possibilities for action and simultaneously restricts the movement’s limits. Drawing on existing coverage of #Me…
Mobilizing the “Multimangle”
This research study is focused on new materialist modes of social inquiry and in particular the material-discursive practices that situate all bodies, human and nonhuman, in relations of matter and mattering. The present study investigates the work of the Mobile Art Studio (MAS), a transitory creative research lab that brings participatory art into pub-lic space to develop greater community engagement with issues of social justice. We explore MAS…
All You Have to Do is Publicly Execute a Few Women Who Have Lied”
This paper examines the intensification and mainstreaming of online misogyny in the volatile post-pandemic digital landscape and the affective labor of feminist and queer counter-response. We argue that the concurrent exhaustion of women and gender minorities, disproportionately burdened with care labour, and the radicalization of men into alt-right manosphere discourse during the pandemic exacerbated existing gendered power dynamics, forming the…
Meme-ifying Data
This article argues for the importance of the memetic tactic of bricolage within contemporary social media science communication for its capacity to curate and distill approachable, accessible, and shareable Covid-19 content. We suggest that the social media communication practices of what we call ‘public health influencers’ (PHIs) on Instagram, Tik Tok, and Twitter make use of memetic bricolage techniques of stop motion, collage, infographics, a…
Voicing Dissonance
This article examines how sound was used as an effective tool of formal resistance in the work of influential feminist filmmakers, Carolee Schneemann (United States), Gunvor Nelson (Sweden), and Joyce Wieland (Canada). While their work differs in both aesthetic approach and thematics, their strategic use of sound as a point of disruption within their early films set an important standard for future feminist experimental film practice. The article…
Mobilizing the “Multimangle”
This research study is focused on new materialist modes of social inquiry and in particular the material-discursive practices that situate all bodies, human and nonhuman, in relations of matter and mattering. The present study investigates the work of the Mobile Art Studio (MAS), a transitory creative research lab that brings participatory art into pub-lic space to develop greater community engagement with issues of social justice. We explore MAS…
Feminist futures
In this article we argue that the #MeToo movement contributes tocombatting sexual harassment by acting as techné (tools), which offer a range of poietic (world making) possibilities given the contexts under which #MeToocirculates. We situate #MeToo as pharmakon (creation and constraint)to highlight how the movement enables new feminist possibilities for action and simultaneously restricts the movement’s limits. Drawing on existing coverage of #Me…
What Do You (Really) Meme? Pandemic Memes as Social Political Repositories
The commentary examines coronavirus memes circulating around forms of generational conflict that have risen from experiences of self-isolation. Employing participant-observation methods within online spaces of meme circulation, the commentary analyzes the political, social, and affective aspects of the memes considered. The commentary offers insight into how we operationalize our social media spaces in times of deep uncertainty in order collectiv…
All Your Faves Are Problematic”
This article looks at the work of the Drunk Feminist Film (DFF) collective from Toronto, Canada. DFF screenings offer interactive in-person and online events that combine watching popular Hollywood films with simultaneous live commentary, audience participation, and hashtag dialogs on Twitter. The article looks specifically at how the multiplatform hybridity of online and embodied participation allows feminist audiences to create collective spect…
Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance
Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies foregrounds the importance of storytelling for coalition building, solidarity, and performative assembly. Bringing together scholars and activists from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, this book offers creative explorations, analyses, personal stories, and case studies of digital feminist activism that speak directly to the many ways that feminist communities as…
Meme-ifying Data
This article argues for the importance of the memetic tactic of bricolage within contemporary social media science communication for its capacity to curate and distill approachable, accessible, and shareable Covid-19 content. We suggest that the social media communication practices of what we call ‘public health influencers’ (PHIs) on Instagram, Tik Tok, and Twitter make use of memetic bricolage techniques of stop motion, collage, infographics, a…
Dwelling with feminist media archives in the age of big data
Dwelling as method
This article proposes and delineates “digital dwelling” as one method of grappling with a central methodological challenge that we, as feminist researchers, face of how researchers might account for the multiple entanglements of affect, history, culture, politics, and resistance within feminist digital media artifacts. Using our method of digital dwelling, we analyze three sets of carousel posts on Instagram from three different accounts: Interse…
Feminist Communities of Practice
In the face of academic antagonism, this article argues that feminists must build caring and careful communities of practice to sustain ourselves. In it we explore the importance of creating intentional, feminist-oriented spaces of actionable solidarity to protect activists and academics from institutional antagonisms. Through our encounters as researchers working within feminist archives, and as academics who are part of feminist research collec…
Policing ‘what a feminist looks like’
This article examines how the popular feminist slogan ‘this is what a feminist looks like’ has evolved over the past decade in response to increasingly misogynist and racist socio-political and technocultural conditions. By comparing the visual and discursive life of the phrase in 2014 with its presence in today's digital and algorithmic cultures, we trace how the slogan has shifted from a celebratory affirmation of feminist visibility to a conte…
Infrastructures of Listening
Podcasting has become a central infrastructure for the circulation and normalization of misogynistic and extremist ideologies, yet the scale, length, and affective density of audio content pose significant challenges for critical qualitative research. This paper introduces ManoWhisper, a feminist computational research infrastructure designed to support the large-scale analysis of misogynistic podcast ecosystems while preserving the contextual de…
All You Have to Do is Publicly Execute a Few Women Who Have Lied”
This paper examines the intensification and mainstreaming of online misogyny in the volatile post-pandemic digital landscape and the affective labor of feminist and queer counter-response. We argue that the concurrent exhaustion of women and gender minorities, disproportionately burdened with care labour, and the radicalization of men into alt-right manosphere discourse during the pandemic exacerbated existing gendered power dynamics, forming the…
Men are very scary out there
This article argues that the viral 2024 Bear vs. Man social media phenomenon that trended across TikTok, Instagram, and X offers significant insights into the post #MeToo landscape, elucidating the continued sociopolitical and technocultural uncertainties around rape culture. As digital technologies change, the means through which marginalised genders resist, retaliate, refuse, and rebuke misogyny and its intersecting oppressions concomitantly ch…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Digital media (3 works)