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WOME 3133

WOME 3133 WA, WAO, WB, WBO, MDST 3133 WAO, WBO: Women, Technology and Cyberculture

Historical course

Winter 2025

Readings

  • Wajcman, Judy. Technofeminism. Polity Press, 2006. 1-31
  • Pleasures, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 1989, pp. 14–26.
  • Required: Plant, Sadie. Zeros and Ones: The Matrix of Women + Machines. Vol. 4, London, 1997, pp. 11–18, 23–27, 34–37.
  • Required: Critical Reflection Seminar Readings:
  • Required: Hawthorne, Susan, and Renate Klein, editors. Cyberfeminism:
  • Required: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity. Spinifex Press, 1999, pp. 1–16.
  • Required: Brophy, Jessica E. “Developing a Corporeal Cyberfeminism: Beyond Cyberutopia.” New Media & Society, vol. 12, no. 6, Feb. 2010, pp. 929–45.
  • Required: Wilding, Faith. "Where Is Feminism in Cyberfeminism?" Lectora: Journal of Women and Textuality, vol. 10, Jan. 2004, pp. 141–151.
  • Required: Film: The Stepford Wives
  • Required: Munn, Luke. "Alexa and the Intersectional Interface." Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, vol. 7, 2018.
  • Required: Plant, Sadie. "On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations." The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader, edited by Gill Kirkup et al., Routledge, 2000, pp. 265–275.
  • Required: Brahnam, Sheryl, et al. "(Un)Dressing the Interface: Exposing the Foundational HCI Metaphor 'Computer Is Woman.'" Interacting with Computers, vol. 23, no. 5, 2011, pp. 401–412
  • Required: Czarniawska, Barbara, and Eva Gustavsson. "The (D)evolution of the Cyberwoman?" Organization, vol. 15, no. 5, 2008, pp. 665–683.
  • Required: Haraway, Donna J. "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s." The Gendered Cyborg: A Reader, edited by Fiona Hovenden et al., Taylor and Francis, 2000, pp. 50–57.
  • Required: DeVoss, D. "Rereading Cyborg(?) Women: The Visual Rhetoric of Images of Cyborg (and Cyber) Bodies on the World Wide Web." CyberPsychology & Behavior, vol. 3, no. 5, 2000, pp. 835–845
  • Required: DeCook, Julia R. "A [White] Cyborg’s Manifesto: The Overwhelmingly Western Ideology Driving Technofeminist Theory." Media, Culture & Society, vol. 43, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1158–1167
  • Required: Weise, Jillian. "Common Cyborg." Granta, 2018
  • Required: Film: Ex Machina
  • Required: Noble, Safiya Umoja. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. NYU Press, 2018, pp. 1-14
  • Required: Higgin, Tanner. "Blackless Fantasy: The Disappearance of Race in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games." Games & Culture, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009, pp. 3-26.
  • Required: Jakubowicz, Andrew. "Alt_Right White Lite: Trolling, Hate Speech and Cyber Racism on Social Media." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, 2017, pp. 41-60.
  • Required: Daniels, Jessie. "Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1/2, 2009, pp. 101-124.
  • Required: Film: Coded Bias (2020)
  • Required: Bryson, Mary, et al. "Virtually Queer? Homing Devices, Mobility, and Un/Belongings." Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 4, 2006, p. 791.
  • Required: Critical Reflection Readings:
  • Required: Herrera, Andrea P. "Theorizing the Lesbian Hashtag: Identity, Community, and the Technological Imperative to Name the Sexual Self." Journal of Lesbian Studies, vol. 22, no. 3, 2018, pp. 313-328.
  • Required: Marciano, Avi. "Living the VirtuReal: Negotiating Transgender Identity in Cyberspace." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, vol. 19, no. 4, 2014, pp. 824-838.
  • Required: Miyake, E. "My, Is That Cyborg a Little Bit Queer?" Journal of International Women’s Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2004, pp. 53-61.
  • Required: Film: Black Mirror (Season 3, Episode 4) "San Junipero"
  • Required: ** No CLASS - READING WEEK**
  • Required: Avatars, Gender, and Power
  • Required: Jacobi, Philip. "Daddy Issues: Wet T-Shirt Feminism and the Contemporary Video Game Heroine." 2017 Regensburg, p. 233.
  • Required: Harding, K. "Write Like a Man." Salon.com, 14 Dec. 2009, www.salon.com/2009/12/14/male_pseudonyms/.
  • Required: O’Riordan, K. "Chapter 21: Gender, Technology, and Visual Cyberculture: Virtually Women." New York University Press eBooks, 2022, pp. 243–254
  • Required: Film: Ready Player One (2018)
  • Required: Escudero Perez, Jimena. "“An AI Doesn’t Need a Gender (but It’s Still Assigned One): Paradigm Shift of the Artificially Created Woman in Film." Feminist Media Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, 2020, pp. 325-340.
  • Required: Sternberg, I. "Female AI: The Intersection Between Gender and Contemporary Artificial Intelligence." Hacker Noon, 2018, hackernoon.com.
  • Required: Corbyn, Z. "Microsoft’s Kate Crawford: ‘AI Is Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent.’" The Guardian, 7 June 2021, www.theguardian.com.
  • Required: Film: I am Mother (2019)
  • Required: Baekgaard, K., and Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: An Emerging Issue in
  • Required: Women, Peace and Security. Edited by N. Quinney, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, 2024.
  • Required: Nicoll, D. "Deepfakes and Gender-Based Violence." rabble.ca, 7 Nov. 2023, www.rabble.ca/human-rights/deepfakes-and-gender-based-violence/.
  • Required: Goldsman, Florencia, and Suzie Dunn. "Gender-Based Censorship: The Silencing of Voices in Digital Spaces." Centre for International Governance Innovation, www.cigionline.org/events/gender-based-censorship-the-silencing-of-voic es-in-digital-spaces/. (Video).
  • Required: Gray, Kishonna L., et al. “Blurring the Boundaries: Using Gamergate to Examine ‘Real’ and Symbolic Violence against Women in Contemporary Gaming Culture.” Sociology Compass, vol. 11, no. 3, 2017
  • Required: Film: The Social Dilemma (2020)
  • Required: Brunner, Elizabeth, and Sarah Partlow-Lefevre. “#MeToo as Networked Collective: Examining Consciousness-Raising on Wild Public Networks.”
  • Required: Biana, Hazel T. "bell hooks and Online Feminism." Journal of International Women's Studies, vol. 25, no. 2, Mar. 2023, pp. COV3+. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A744256757/AONE?u=ocul_lakehead&sid=book mark-AONE&xid=97666927.
  • Required: Harcourt, W., and X. A. Calle. "Embodying Cyberspace: Making the Personal Political in Digital Places." Gender, Development and Social Change, pp. 83–112, 2022.
  • Required: Hester, Helen. "After the Future: Hypotheses of Post-Cyber Feminism." BeingRes, 30 June 2017, beingres.org/2017/06/30/afterthefuture-helenhester/.
  • Required: Acierto, Alejandro, and KT Duffy. “CQDE: A Feminist Manifestx of Code-ing.” 2019, 2020. Chicago: Alejandro T. Acierto and KT Duffy, 2020.
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