PAPERS by Arianna Mainardi
European Journal of Women’s Studies, 2024
The article aims to explore the centrality in young women’s life of the affective assemblages tha... more The article aims to explore the centrality in young women’s life of the affective assemblages that took shape in their relationship with digital media during the pandemic, particularly fostered by the use of dating apps. Emotional and affective connection is and has been prevented by the pandemic in the form of physical distancing and the risk of contagion, but also by regulations that in some states, such as Italy, have only recognised legitimate familial relationships to grant permission to mobility (like marriage, birth family). So, what happens when people cannot take care and be sustained by their affective web of relationships? On one hand, this negative situation limited desire, mutual sharing, and pleasure as potential pushes for social change, and on the other hand, it opened up new mediated spaces in which to cultivate different and unexpected effects and relationships. Therefore, the article looks at the role of the affective realm as a political space linked to social change, and explores the use of dating apps by young women during the pandemic as an element of a broader affective assemblage. The article follows a subgroup of young women who used dating apps during the Covid lockdown over the three waves of interviews. The young women are aged 24–30 years and have been encountered as a part of a longitudinal research project on the transition to adulthood in Italy conducted from 2020 to 2022. Specifically, it focuses on those biographies of youth who are not in a stable romantic relationship, and often live alone, and who have therefore experienced unprecedented forms of emotional/affective isolation and have recurred to dating apps for different purposes. The goal here is to analyse the unexpected uses of these apps – not only centred in erotic or romantic purpose – and the online (and sometimes offline) relationships that ensue: for example, making sense of rarefied and solitary time, building relations of care in everyday life. These assemblages – made up of bodies, digital media, and affects – intervene in the current context of normalised crisis and precarity, characterised by a digitally saturated environment, giving the possibility to young people to produce and enjoy spaces for non-normative/linear/straight desire and sharing that go beyond the pandemic.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
PArtecipazione e COnflitto, 2023
Although the Italian public discourse is characterized by an underlying Islamophobia and gendered... more Although the Italian public discourse is characterized by an underlying Islamophobia and gendered processes of racialization and discrimination, for which the agency of women of Muslim culture is often denied, Italy hosts a growing and increasingly visible feminist movement that adopts intersectionality as practice and method. Particularly relevant for contemporary feminisms appears to be the digital environment, which is at the same time a space for networking and a site of protests and collective action. In this context the paper explores whether an online discourse on feminism and Islam exists, and how it unfolds on social media. In this contribution we focus on the discourse about #femminismoislamico in the digital sphere by analyzing how Instagram users engage with the related hashtags, in the case study of Italy between 2017 and 2021. Data are organized in three categories: information, inspiration & memes, call for change. The discourse developing around the analyzed hashtags contributes to reshape the boundaries of both the feminist discourse and the place of Islamic feminism in online and offline feminist public space. Furthermore the adoption of the hashtags related to Islamic feminism illustrates the appropriation, reframing and composite reassembling of individual and collective intersectional identities.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Journalism and Media, 2022
The paper aims to offer an opportunity to consider intersectionality in the context of digital me... more The paper aims to offer an opportunity to consider intersectionality in the context of digital media. On the basis of empirical research, this paper analyzes the way in which gender, sexuality, color, and religion intersect in online spaces to produce new norms and forms of discrimination, as well as space for agency and for the articulation of different voices. In particular, in adopting an intersectional feminist perspective, this paper explores how Muslim girls produce counter-narratives and new spaces for subjectivation at the intersection of gender, religion, and racialization by actively appropriating digital media. Specifically, the paper analyzes French Muslim girls’ relationships with digital media in relation to political life, in the context of growing Islamophobia and the instrumentalization of women’s bodies by populist discourses on religion. On the basis of online and offline observations and explorative interviews carried out in Paris, this paper shows that the girls developed a number of individual and collective strategies involving both online and offline spaces to cope with racist and anti-Islamic rhetoric and practices in a context which they perceived to be characterized by contemporary processes of racialization and everyday discrimination against Muslim people.
open access https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/3/3/38
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
The article presents some of the first results obtained during a qualitative longitudinal researc... more The article presents some of the first results obtained during a qualitative longitudinal research on being young in Italy, begun in 2019, promoted by the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Milano- Bicocca. The paper aims at contributing to the study of the life trajectories of young men and women as they deal with a transition to adulthood that appears suspended, especially in relation to the economic, social and cultural fractures determined by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. By focusing on life experiences and life courses in Italy, the paper analyses how transition is strongly affected by the geographical, cultural, social and economic contexts in which the biographies of the young people interviewed are immersed. Furthemore, the article explores the subjective meanings they ascribe to those contexts. Firstly, the results show that a common feature of the biographies of the young people we encountered is a perception of uncertainty. More specifically, the paper underlines the ambivalent role that geographical context plays in the narrations and biographies of young people. Especially, when it is characterized by scarcity of resources, and therefore, by the impossibility of recognition and realization of personal aspirations. Lastly, the research shows that the sanitary emergency, with the subsequent containment policies, represents a sudden event that amplifies pre-existing conditions, characteristics, and differences, but at the same time, it triggers novel transformations, at a collective as well as individual level.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Oñati Socio-legal Series, The fourth wave of feminism: from sisterhood and social networking towards a new citizenship?
This article engages with the current debate on feminisms and digital media by looking at the ten... more This article engages with the current debate on feminisms and digital media by looking at the tension between individualism and collective action. Drawing on an empirical research project involving girls, carried out in Italy and focusing on female processes of subjectivation in a postfeminist new media context, it will discuss constraints and opportunities shaped by the everyday use of social media. The article places itself in the latest trend of cyberfeminist studies, by analysing friendship relationships developed among girls in and through digital media. It also looks at how the mediated nature of social network sites offers room for the building of alliances among girls, and how this challenges online and offline gender norms. In doing so, the article reflects on the way female relationships change and are reworked in digital culture, thus giving a new meaning to the feminist concept of sisterhood. Resumen Este artículo se ocupa del debate actual sobre feminismos y medios digitales, con una mirada a la tensión existente entre el individualismo y la acción colectiva. Partiendo de un proyecto de investigación empírica con chicas, realizado en Italia y enfocado en los procesos femeninos de subjetivación en un contexto posfeminista de nuevos medios, el artículo trata sobre las limitaciones y las oportunidades modeladas por el uso cotidiano de medios sociales. El artículo se sitúa en la reciente ola de estudios ciberfeministas, analizando las relaciones de amistad entre chicas a través de medios digiales. También se ocupa de cómo la naturaleza mediada de las redes sociales digitales ofrece un espacio para las alianzas entre chicas, y de cómo esto desafía las normas de género en Internet y fuera de él. Al hacerlo, el artículo reflexiona sobre cómo las relaciones entre mujeres cambian y se transforman en la cultura digital, dando un nuevo significado al concepto feminista de sororidad. *
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Information Communication & Society, 2019
In this article we aim to contribute to the study of social movement media cultures by paying spe... more In this article we aim to contribute to the study of social movement media cultures by paying specific attention to the practices through which collective actors build specific knowledge about media as workspaces. More precisely, we analyze how knowledge about media and tech companies as discriminatory workspaces is produced starting from the very lived experiences and situated understandings of women and LGBT workers. We investigate this set of media knowledge practices by exploring the case of Unicorns In Tech (UiT), a network of queer and straight people working in the media and technology sector, through the lens of "movement knowledge repertoires", which has been recently pushed forward within social movement studies to illuminate the knowledge work pursued by collective actors. Our analysis of the UiT case sheds light on how women and LGBT workers experience media and tech companies as a vast space that is characterized by gender imbalances. In turn, this situated understanding of media as discriminatory workspaces grounds UiT endeavor to achieve more diverse and inclusive spaces, where dissonant subjectivities can be made visible together with technical expertise, and where synergies with media and tech companies can be created to produce welcoming cultures in and beyond the workspace.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
PaCo Partecipazione e Conflitto , 2018
This article aims to achieve a better understanding of how online networks contribute to the orga... more This article aims to achieve a better understanding of how online networks contribute to the organization and the symbolic production of social movements using big data coming from social media platforms. It traces and compares online social and semantic networks that emerged on Twitter during two protest events organized by the feminist Italian movement Non Una Di Meno (NUDM) – a national strike organized on March 8th, 2017 and a march organized on November 25th of the same year. Our results suggests that, over time, online networks created on Twitter remain sparse and centralized around the movement handle but that they continue to host an interactive dialogue between the movement, its activists, and supporters. Also, over time, participants to online conversations around NUDM tend to use Twitter to discuss different aspects of the mobilization – paying more attention to the spaces of the protest during the strike and to the issue of gender-based violence in November.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Modern Italy, 2018
This article engages with the postfeminist debate on girls’ sexuality in contemporary Italy. The ... more This article engages with the postfeminist debate on girls’ sexuality in contemporary Italy. The huge popularity among adolescents of social network sites (SNSs), which involve a vast mobilisation of personal images, has given rise to new concerns and a moralising gender panic about girls’ sexuality. Drawing on critical girls’ studies, and based on the outputs of a qualitative research project, the article discusses the gender discourses that emerge from Italian girls’ digital practices on SNSs, with specific refer- ence to girls’ online self-representation through posting and sharing photos on Facebook and other SNSs. The article explores how sexual regulation works among girls in the digital context by analysing the postfeminist norms of female sexual embodiment in contemporary Italian digital culture. In doing so, the article hopes to contribute to the transnational academic debate in media and cultural studies by showing the discursive and visual conditions of possibility which shape girls’ digital sexual subjectivity on social network sites.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Cavalli, Nicola, et al. "University Students and Technologies: Usage, Consumption and Future Trends in the Educational Context." International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence (IJDLDC) 4.4 (2013): 15-27.
This paper presents and discusses data on the use of technology in general and of Web 2.0 platfor... more This paper presents and discusses data on the use of technology in general and of Web 2.0 platforms and services in particular by students at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The data was obtained from a survey on media consumption habits and usage of new web technologies conducted by the university's Observatory on New Media, NuMediaBiOs. Research of this kind provides a valuable basis for the development, adaptation and improvement of existing services and offerings involving new technologies in educational contexts, given that for new technologies to be successfully integrated it is critical to have access to detailed information about how they are currently deployed by users (in this case, undergraduate students on basic degree programmes). Such analyses have implications for a range of contexts, not least for the public educational institution in which they are carried out, namely the university.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence, 2013
This paper presents and discusses data on the use of technology in general and of Web 2.0 platfor... more This paper presents and discusses data on the use of technology in general and of Web 2.0 platforms and services in particular by students at the University of Milano-Bicocca. The data was obtained from a survey on media consumption habits and usage of new web technologies conducted by the university's Observatory on New Media, NuMediaBiOs. Research of this kind provides a valuable basis for the development, adaptation and improvement of existing services and offerings involving new technologies in educational contexts, given that for new technologies to be successfully integrated it is critical to have access to detailed information about how they are currently deployed by users (in this case, undergraduate students on basic degree programmes). Such analyses have implications for a range of contexts, not least for the public educational institution in which they are carried out, namely the university.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Books by Arianna Mainardi
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Agenzia X, 2018
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Questo e-book raccoglie gli atti del convegno organizzato dalla rete Effimera svoltosi
a Milano, ... more Questo e-book raccoglie gli atti del convegno organizzato dalla rete Effimera svoltosi
a Milano, il 1° giugno 2019. Costituisce il primo di tre incontri che hanno l’ambizione
di indagare quello che abbiamo definito “l’enigma del valore”, ovvero l’analisi e
l’inchiesta per comprendere l’origine degli attuali processi di valorizzazione alla luce
delle mutate condizioni nell’organizzazione della produzione e del lavoro.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
In questo rapporto sono presentati i risultati dell’indagine sulla dieta mediale e sui profili di... more In questo rapporto sono presentati i risultati dell’indagine sulla dieta mediale e sui profili di utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie di rete condotta dall’Osservatorio sui Nuovi Media dell’Università di Milano-Bicocca NuMediaBiOs. La ricerca è stata effettuata nel corso dell’anno accademico 2011-2012 e, in linea anche con le rilevazioni effettuate negli anni precedenti (Ferri et al. 2010, 2012), si è basata su una survey quantitativa sulla popolazione degli studenti iscritti alle lauree triennali dell’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
BOOK CHAPTERS by Arianna Mainardi
Research Handbook on Transition into Adulthood, 2024
This contribution aims to intersect youth and gender studies, in order to place the dimensions of... more This contribution aims to intersect youth and gender studies, in order to place the dimensions of body and sexuality at the centre of the discourse on transition to adulthood. These dimensions, often obscured by these studies, are instead strategic in the understanding of the embodied experiences that question the binary (and cis-hetero) norm, and so expanding the meanings associated with being and becoming an adult today. The chapter is based on longitudinal interviews (2 waves) with girls, lgbtqia+ people and people who question the normative dimensions of categories such as gender, body and sexuality, thanks to their lived experiences. In the current phase of uncertainty and structural crisis, the goal is to make room for the analysis of life paths traditionally left on the margins of the sociological gaze on transition, by showing how they carry meanings and perspectives that open up spaces of livability and gendered citizenship.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
in 'Media digitali, genere e sessualità' a cura di Farci M & Scarcelli CM, Mondadori : Milano , 2022
Il capitolo vuole offrire la possibilità di prendere confidenza con il concetto di intersezionali... more Il capitolo vuole offrire la possibilità di prendere confidenza con il concetto di intersezionalità nel contesto del digitale. Guardando ai processi che producono disuguaglianze online, il capitolo vuole porre le basi per la comprensione degli spazi di azione possibili per i soggetti minorizzati, e ridiscutere posizioni quali l’eurocentrismo, il sessismo, la bianchezza che caratterizzano le dinamiche online nel nord globale.
In primo luogo, verrà fornita una definizione contestualizzata del concetto di intersezionalità seguendo gli studi di genere e femministi. L’intersezionalità – che sarà discussa come teoria e metodo - nasce nel contesto dei movimenti sociali, del black feminism, e mira a svelare/sfidare le simultanee esperienze di oppressione, a partire da quelle di genere e razza. L’intersezionalità come concetto, più recentemente, è accolta negli studi sul digitale – seguendo la spinta decoloniale negli studi sociali (e.g. riferimento a digital coloniality) - per comprendere come la non neutralità rispetto al genere del digitale sia in relazione con dimensioni quali colore della pelle, religione, classe.
Successivamente, verranno messe a tema le teorizzazioni sulla rete, che si riferiscono alla prima fase di sviluppo di internet, come spazio in cui fuggire le dinamiche di razializzazione offline – spazio “utopico” senza genere e razza. Per poi discutere gli studi contemporanei che mostrano come il razzismo persista negli spazi della rete in continuità con i regimi discorsivi che costruiscono forme di oppressione e esclusione offline, ma anche come si esprima in modalità specifiche online. Sarà esplorata, poi, la riproduzione della bianchezza come norma online e le discriminazioni razziali e di genere che sostiene, e le conseguenze in termini di possibilità di espressione, costruzione di reti e attivismo digitale.
Infine, saranno mobilitati i più recenti studi sui social media, di genere e femministi che si interrogano sulla crescita dell’islamofobia digitale, osservando come l’intreccio contemporaneo tra colore della pelle, religione, regimi patriarcali e genere – con uno sguardo intersezionale – produce marginalizzazione nello spazio pubblico online delle donne e ragazze di cultura musulmana, sostenendo processi di alterizzazione mediati dalla rete.
Parole chiave : intersezionalità, femminismo digitale, bianchezza, islamofobia digitale
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication edited by Karen Ross, 2020
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc022
The entry examines ... more Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119429128.iegmc022
The entry examines some crucial ways in which LGBTQI people take advantage of pervasive digital communications affordances in their struggle for achieving full recognition and their rights in the digital as well as in the offline social spaces. This entry proposes that an understanding of the possibilities and the challenges offered by digital media to the LGBTQI community can be reached by considering both the material and the social aspects that structure the multifaceted relationship between LGBTQI people and digital media. The entry provides an introductory overview on these two orders of aspects, beginning from material ones—that is, by accounting for the (still few) reflections on the role that digital media affordances and working logics play in LGBTQI life. The entry then proceeds by focusing on the social aspects by looking at three broad sets of media practices that are particularly relevant to understand the potentialities and the risks that digital media bring forward to the LGBTQI world: representation and identity construction, community building, and activism.
Bookmarks Related papers MentionsView impact
Uploads
PAPERS by Arianna Mainardi
open access https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/3/3/38
Books by Arianna Mainardi
a Milano, il 1° giugno 2019. Costituisce il primo di tre incontri che hanno l’ambizione
di indagare quello che abbiamo definito “l’enigma del valore”, ovvero l’analisi e
l’inchiesta per comprendere l’origine degli attuali processi di valorizzazione alla luce
delle mutate condizioni nell’organizzazione della produzione e del lavoro.
BOOK CHAPTERS by Arianna Mainardi
In primo luogo, verrà fornita una definizione contestualizzata del concetto di intersezionalità seguendo gli studi di genere e femministi. L’intersezionalità – che sarà discussa come teoria e metodo - nasce nel contesto dei movimenti sociali, del black feminism, e mira a svelare/sfidare le simultanee esperienze di oppressione, a partire da quelle di genere e razza. L’intersezionalità come concetto, più recentemente, è accolta negli studi sul digitale – seguendo la spinta decoloniale negli studi sociali (e.g. riferimento a digital coloniality) - per comprendere come la non neutralità rispetto al genere del digitale sia in relazione con dimensioni quali colore della pelle, religione, classe.
Successivamente, verranno messe a tema le teorizzazioni sulla rete, che si riferiscono alla prima fase di sviluppo di internet, come spazio in cui fuggire le dinamiche di razializzazione offline – spazio “utopico” senza genere e razza. Per poi discutere gli studi contemporanei che mostrano come il razzismo persista negli spazi della rete in continuità con i regimi discorsivi che costruiscono forme di oppressione e esclusione offline, ma anche come si esprima in modalità specifiche online. Sarà esplorata, poi, la riproduzione della bianchezza come norma online e le discriminazioni razziali e di genere che sostiene, e le conseguenze in termini di possibilità di espressione, costruzione di reti e attivismo digitale.
Infine, saranno mobilitati i più recenti studi sui social media, di genere e femministi che si interrogano sulla crescita dell’islamofobia digitale, osservando come l’intreccio contemporaneo tra colore della pelle, religione, regimi patriarcali e genere – con uno sguardo intersezionale – produce marginalizzazione nello spazio pubblico online delle donne e ragazze di cultura musulmana, sostenendo processi di alterizzazione mediati dalla rete.
Parole chiave : intersezionalità, femminismo digitale, bianchezza, islamofobia digitale
The entry examines some crucial ways in which LGBTQI people take advantage of pervasive digital communications affordances in their struggle for achieving full recognition and their rights in the digital as well as in the offline social spaces. This entry proposes that an understanding of the possibilities and the challenges offered by digital media to the LGBTQI community can be reached by considering both the material and the social aspects that structure the multifaceted relationship between LGBTQI people and digital media. The entry provides an introductory overview on these two orders of aspects, beginning from material ones—that is, by accounting for the (still few) reflections on the role that digital media affordances and working logics play in LGBTQI life. The entry then proceeds by focusing on the social aspects by looking at three broad sets of media practices that are particularly relevant to understand the potentialities and the risks that digital media bring forward to the LGBTQI world: representation and identity construction, community building, and activism.
open access https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/3/3/38
a Milano, il 1° giugno 2019. Costituisce il primo di tre incontri che hanno l’ambizione
di indagare quello che abbiamo definito “l’enigma del valore”, ovvero l’analisi e
l’inchiesta per comprendere l’origine degli attuali processi di valorizzazione alla luce
delle mutate condizioni nell’organizzazione della produzione e del lavoro.
In primo luogo, verrà fornita una definizione contestualizzata del concetto di intersezionalità seguendo gli studi di genere e femministi. L’intersezionalità – che sarà discussa come teoria e metodo - nasce nel contesto dei movimenti sociali, del black feminism, e mira a svelare/sfidare le simultanee esperienze di oppressione, a partire da quelle di genere e razza. L’intersezionalità come concetto, più recentemente, è accolta negli studi sul digitale – seguendo la spinta decoloniale negli studi sociali (e.g. riferimento a digital coloniality) - per comprendere come la non neutralità rispetto al genere del digitale sia in relazione con dimensioni quali colore della pelle, religione, classe.
Successivamente, verranno messe a tema le teorizzazioni sulla rete, che si riferiscono alla prima fase di sviluppo di internet, come spazio in cui fuggire le dinamiche di razializzazione offline – spazio “utopico” senza genere e razza. Per poi discutere gli studi contemporanei che mostrano come il razzismo persista negli spazi della rete in continuità con i regimi discorsivi che costruiscono forme di oppressione e esclusione offline, ma anche come si esprima in modalità specifiche online. Sarà esplorata, poi, la riproduzione della bianchezza come norma online e le discriminazioni razziali e di genere che sostiene, e le conseguenze in termini di possibilità di espressione, costruzione di reti e attivismo digitale.
Infine, saranno mobilitati i più recenti studi sui social media, di genere e femministi che si interrogano sulla crescita dell’islamofobia digitale, osservando come l’intreccio contemporaneo tra colore della pelle, religione, regimi patriarcali e genere – con uno sguardo intersezionale – produce marginalizzazione nello spazio pubblico online delle donne e ragazze di cultura musulmana, sostenendo processi di alterizzazione mediati dalla rete.
Parole chiave : intersezionalità, femminismo digitale, bianchezza, islamofobia digitale
The entry examines some crucial ways in which LGBTQI people take advantage of pervasive digital communications affordances in their struggle for achieving full recognition and their rights in the digital as well as in the offline social spaces. This entry proposes that an understanding of the possibilities and the challenges offered by digital media to the LGBTQI community can be reached by considering both the material and the social aspects that structure the multifaceted relationship between LGBTQI people and digital media. The entry provides an introductory overview on these two orders of aspects, beginning from material ones—that is, by accounting for the (still few) reflections on the role that digital media affordances and working logics play in LGBTQI life. The entry then proceeds by focusing on the social aspects by looking at three broad sets of media practices that are particularly relevant to understand the potentialities and the risks that digital media bring forward to the LGBTQI world: representation and identity construction, community building, and activism.
This entry offers an overview of those studies that have focused on the relationship between identity and gender, connecting gender to the issue of digital media in order to understand the current challenges of a gendered identity in an online environment. Against this background, the entry discusses the multifaceted perspectives of gender and feminist studies on the relationship between identity and technologies. Second, it explores that line of thought that has approached the internet as a space of experimentation for gender and identities by looking specifically at how gender performances may have changed, from the dichotomy between virtual and real to that between online and offline spaces, and by paying particular attention to the aspects of gender swapping, anonymity, and visuality. It explores the relationship between embodiment and disembodiment in the online experience by looking at materiality, sexuality, and experimentation. Finally, it looks at social media and mobile digital technologies in order to examine some of the major issues surrounding identity, gender, and online experiences in the present day, such as security and privacy, or the tension between sexual control and freedom of gender expression
By reconstructing the genealogy of the feminists’ thoughts—capable of challenging the modern conception of power, and therefore also that of authority—we aim at highlighting their echoes within the girls’ discourses and practices. In doing so, this chapter offers an understanding on how the girls’ gaze on the world can build new practices and new perceptions of the exercise of power and authority.
We regard intimacy as a relational concept that can be redefined in research practice, and seek to problematise what it means to share intimacy during research. In this chapter, we want to translate this approach into instruments which can be used to work on intimacy, young people and digital media in a way that places the participants themselves at the centre of research and recognises their agency in a society where mediatisation and media culture cannot be ignored.
The chapter shows how it is possible to gain access to the new spaces of intimacy opened up by the use of digital media and at the same time respecting young people’s experiences and points of view. The authors recognise digital media as resources in the research process, able to challenge the normative relation between the researcher and the subject involved, opening up new spaces for participant agency.
Distribuito con Licenza Creative Commons
http://ledibooks.com/dietamediale/chapter/profili-di-consumo-e-produzione-di-contenuti-culturali/
https://11efrc.unimib.it/strand-3/
Coordinators: Arianna Mainardi, University of Milano-Bicocca; Nina Ferrante, ULiège; Åsa Ekvall, independent researcher; Domitilla (domi) Olivieri, Utrecht University.
→ abstracts to be sent to: efrc.strand3@gmail.com, info@atgender.eu
The conference raises the general question on what it means to imagine, to enact and to analyse “social change” from a feminist perspective. This conference-strand focuses on how media and the process of digitalisation contribute to the production and contestation of the spaces/relations/canons we inhabit individually and collectively. Especially the last year(s) of pandemic have made the use of digital media a constitutive part of the process of subjectivation and the construction of the public sphere, even more crucial.
This strand invites papers and panels from a wide range of (inter)disciplines, both empirical and theoretical contributions, on topics which include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Affordances and constraints of digital platforms
- Cyberfeminist legacies (hacklab, hacktivism)
- Alternative media industries, representations and networks
- Feminist networking, digital activism and collective action in pandemic time
- Transfeminist critiques to computational culture (big data, creative methodologies, ethics)
- Mediated articulation of the affective and intimate everyday life (dating app, family, friendship, alternative intimacies and radical kinships)
- The complexities of feminist communication and knowledge exchanges across academic and non academic spaces (e.g.: issues of accessibility, production, and dissemination)
- Community media
- Normative regime of (in)visibility and resistance (representation, self-representation, disidentifications)
- Critical takes on the popularised issue of fake news and post-truth
- Platforms/digital practices of care, networking, participation
- Memes as aesthetiques and language
Resistances and redefinitions through performances, productions and consumption
In collaboration with Women's Network and Film Studies Section
University of Padua (Italy) 15th and 16th of November 2019
16th November 2019
Roundtable : "Gender and Knowledge Production in Contemporary Academia. Unpacking challenges and possibilities"
Organized by Women’s Network
With: A. Murgia (University of Milano), J. Mercer (Birmingham City University), K. Ross
(Univesrity of Newcastle), C.Smith (University of Sunderland)
Chair: A. Mainardi (University of Milano Bicocca)