Developing a corporeal cyberfeminism

Beyond cyberutopia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12655528
AutoresJessica E Brophy (University of Maine, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume12
Fascículo6
Páginas929-945
Data de publicação2010-02-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1461444809350901
OpenAlexW2133207612
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas31

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