Doing feminism in the network

Networked laughter and the 'Binders Full of Women' meme

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4367178
AutoresCarrie A Rentschler (0000-0002-2073-0559, McGill University, autor correspondente), Samantha C Thrift (University of Calgary)
Ano2015
Volume16
Fascículo3
Páginas329-359
Data de publicação2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700115604136
OpenAlexW2342314624
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas93
Referências citadas30

We analyse how memes construct networks of feminist critique and response, mobilising the derisive laughter that energises current feminisms. Using the 2012 case of the 'Binders Full of Women' meme, we argue that feminist memes create online spaces of consciousness raising and community building. The timeliness, humorous affect and media techné of meme propagators become significant infrastructures for feminist critique, what we term 'doing feminism in the network'. If the Internet is particularly good at facilitating the diffusion of feminist jokes, as others argue, we illustrate how the networking and distribution capacities of social media platforms such as Tumblr, Facebook and the online shopping site Amazon.com also cultivate new modes of feminist cultural critique and models of political agency for practising feminism through meme production and propagation

Consciousness · Cyberculture · Feminism · Laughter · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology