Building & Linking Principled Sites in Collaboration
I’m curious about architectural and community structures, as well as norms of behavior, and how they might produce the possibility for feminist interactions online. I’ve been working on this with my students at USC (Spring 2011) and Pitzer (Fall 2011), and I blog about that here and elsewhere.
In completing my online ethnography of the Okayplayer message boards I sought to answer two research questions which came from my earlier interaction with users on the site: Why do …
online ethnography of the Okayplayer message boards by TC Read More For this week’s ethnographic project for MALS 72200: Contemporary Feminist Thought, the methodology used was of direct participation on my Medium site (by posting open public stories) as well as …
Unruly Body Ethnography by DV Read More Finding a feminist, safe space online that engages with issues such as class, gender, and the envision of the body can be hard to get particularly if, as users, we …
Unruly Bodies as Online Feminist Intersectional Space by DVS Read More Is AO3 feminist? Yes, based on users: – Space for communities to form – Space for users to create their own areas/sections – Space for non-capitalistic creation – Space for …
Is AO3 a Feminist Space? by jgc_72200 Read More I started my exploration on the official Sims forum (I’ll likely be interchanging the full name with TSF for space/brevity), and initially found the general tone of the boards pretty …
Sims forum, feminist of color space? incentivizing participation and intentionality by AW Read More