Feminismo de plataformas: protestos e política da organização espacial

Este artículo pone en cuestión la utilidad política de las plataformas como medio para la resistencia feminista. A partir de ejemplos como el #MeToo, y la Marcha de Mujeres en Washington, movimientos que se apoyaron en las plataformas para revitalizar lo que Sarah Banet-Weiser ha denominado “feminismo popular” (2018), argumento que las plataformas mediáticas tienden a asumir determinadas ideas de seguridad, privilegio y poder en relación con el espacio social. Destacando cómo las personas negras, indígenas y de color (BIPOC, en inglés) se organizan en el espacio social, señalo que el foco en la amplificación y la elevación, facilitado por la lógica de la plataforma, vela las necesidades de quienes resisten desde los márgenes. Introduzco las estrategias espaciales utilizadas por quienes deben negociar el espacio de manera distinta para desafiar la centralidad de las plataformas como medio estructurante de las luchas feministas contemporáneas.This article brings into question the political utility of platforms as media for feminist resistance. Using examples of #MeToo, and the Women’s March on Washington, movements that have relied on the platform for reinvigorating what Sarah Banet-Weiser has called “popular feminism” (2018), I argue that common media platforms tend to infer an underlying assumption of safety, privilege and power in relation to social space. Through highlighting how BIPOC people organize in social space, I argue that the focus on amplification and elevation, facilitated by the logics of platform, obscures the needs of those who resist on the margins. I introduce the spatial strategies employed by those who must negotiate space differently to challenge the centrality of platforms as media the structure contemporary feminist protest.Este artigo questiona a utilidade política das plataformas como mídia para a resistência feminista. Usando exemplos de #MeToo, e da Marcha das Mulheres em Washington, movimentos que confiaram nas plataformas para revigorar o que Sarah Banet-Weiser chamou de "feminismo popular" (2018), eu defendo que plataformas comuns de mídia tendem a inferir uma suposição subjacente de segurança, privilégio e poder em relação ao espaço social. Ao destacar como as pessoas do BIPOC se organizam no espaço social, defendo que o foco na amplificação e elevação, facilitado pela lógica das plataformas, obscurece as necessidades daqueles que resistem nas margens. Apresento as estratégias espaciais empregadas por aqueles que devem negociar o espaço de forma diferente, para desafiar a centralidade das plataformas como mídia a estrutura do protesto feminista contemporâneo.Facultad de Trabajo Socia

Feminismo de plataformas: protestos e política da organização espacial

This article brings into question the political utility of platforms as media for feminist resistance. Using examples of #MeToo, and the Women’s March on Washington, movements that have relied on the platform for reinvigorating what Sarah Banet-Weiser has called “popular feminism” (2018), I argue that common media platforms tend to infer an underlying assumption of safety, privilege and power in relation to social space. Through highlighting how BIPOC people organize in social space, I argue that the focus on amplification and elevation, facilitated by the logics of platform, obscures the needs of those who resist on the margins. I introduce the spatial strategies employed by those who must negotiate space differently to challenge the centrality of platforms as media the structure contemporary feminist protest.Este artículo pone en cuestión la utilidad política de las plataformas como medio para la resistencia feminista. A partir de ejemplos como el #MeToo, y la Marcha de Mujeres en Washington, movimientos que se apoyaron en las plataformas para revitalizar lo que Sarah Banet-Weiser ha denominado “feminismo popular” (2018), argumento que las plataformas mediáticas tienden a asumir determinadas ideas de seguridad, privilegio y poder en relación con el espacio social. Destacando cómo las personas negras, indígenas y de color (BIPOC, en inglés) se organizan en el espacio social, señalo que el foco en la amplificación y la elevación, facilitado por la lógica de la plataforma, vela las necesidades de quienes resisten desde los márgenes. Introduzco las estrategias espaciales utilizadas por quienes deben negociar el espacio de manera distinta para desafiar la centralidad de las plataformas como medio estructurante de las luchas feministas contemporáneas.Este artigo questiona a utilidade política das plataformas como mídia para a resistência feminista. Usando exemplos de #MeToo, e da Marcha das Mulheres em Washington, movimentos que confiaram nas plataformas para revigorar o que Sarah Banet-Weiser chamou de "feminismo popular" (2018), eu defendo que plataformas comuns de mídia tendem a inferir uma suposição subjacente de segurança, privilégio e poder em relação ao espaço social. Ao destacar como as pessoas do BIPOC se organizam no espaço social, defendo que o foco na amplificação e elevação, facilitado pela lógica das plataformas, obscurece as necessidades daqueles que resistem nas margens. Apresento as estratégias espaciais empregadas por aqueles que devem negociar o espaço de forma diferente, para desafiar a centralidade das plataformas como mídia a estrutura do protesto feminista contemporâneo

PLATFORM FEMINISM & The Politics of Elevation with Dr. Rianka Singh

This talk proposes a new feminist media theory that positions the platform as a media object that elevates and amplifies some voices over others while rendering marginal resistance tactics illegible. I develop the term “Platform Feminism” to describe an emerging view of digital platforms as an always-already useful form of empowerment. I argue that Platform Feminism has come to structure and dominate popular imaginaries of feminist politics.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/192491/1/Platform Feminism Captioned.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/192491/2/PLATFORM FEMINISM & The Politics of Elevation with Dr. Rianka Singh.txtDescription of Platform Feminism Captioned.mp4 : Event VideoDescription of PLATFORM FEMINISM & The Politics of Elevation with Dr. Rianka Singh.txt : TranscriptSEL

Platform Feminism: Feminist Protest Space and the Politics of Spatial Organization

Platform Feminism: Feminist Protest Space and the Politics of Spatial Organization examines the relationship between platforms and feminist politics. This dissertation proposes a new feminist media theory of the platform that positions the platform as a media object that elevates and amplifies some voices over others and renders marginal resistance tactics illegible. This dissertation develops the term “Platform Feminism” to describe an emerging view of digital platforms as always-already politically useful media for feminist empowerment. I argue that Platform Feminism has come to structure and dominate popular imaginaries of what a feminist politics is. In the same vein, the contemporary focus on digital platforms within media studies negates attention to the strategies of care, safety and survival that feminists who resist on the margins employ in the digital age. If we take seriously the imperative to survive rather than an overbearing commitment to speak up, then the platform’s role in feminism is revealed as limited in scope and potential. Through a mixed methodological approach via interviews with feminist activists, critical discourse analysis of platform protest materials, critical discourse analysis of news coverage and popular cultural responses to transnational feminist protests and participant observation within sites of feminist protest in Toronto, this dissertation argues that the platform is a media object that is over-determined in its political utility for Feminist politics and action.Ph.D

Platform Feminism: Protest and the Politics of Spatial Organization

10 pagesThis article brings into question the political utility of platforms as media for feminist resistance. Using examples of #MeToo, and the Women’s March on Washington, movements that have relied on the platform for reinvigorating what Sarah Banet-Weiser has called “popular feminism” (2018), I argue that common media platforms tend to infer an underlying assumption of safety, privilege and power in relation to social space. Through highlighting how BIPOC people organize in social space, I argue that the focus on amplification and elevation, facilitated by the logics of platform, obscures the needs of those who resist on the margins. I introduce the spatial strategies employed by those who must negotiate space differently to challenge the centrality of platforms as media the structure contemporary feminist protest

Resistance in a minor key: Care, survival and convening on the margins

This is the age of amplification. Being represented, heard, and rendered visible is the dominant and common approach to understanding both off-line and online feminist activism. As part of the amplified stage, digital platforms facilitate increased visibility. But the quiet resistance of those who do not take so readily to platforms is also mediated by the digital. This paper looks toward resistance that is quieter. It is resistance based on care, survival, and safety. In this article I ask: what does a digital activism look like that takes into account the ways in which people organize not just so that they can be heard, but so they can survive

“Honestly, We’re Not Spying on Kids”: School Surveillance of Young People’s Social Media

Social media is one of the top activities and sites for young people’s socialization in North America, raising concerns over their social privacy, because of reported instances of cyberbullying and sexting, and their informational privacy, because of commercial data collection. A trend in schools and school districts in the United States is to monitor and track, through third party applications and software, student social media during and after school, in an attempt to prevent or reduce the perceived dissemination of violence, bullying, threats, or hate instigated by students and directed toward other students or entire schools. This article will provide an overview of four of these US companies (Geo Listening, Varsity Monitor, Snaptrends, Digital Fly) and consider the policy and ethical issues of data monitoring with respect to young people’s rights to privacy and their freedom of speech