Forum: Political Economy of Feminist Blogging [#Feminist Friday]

A New York Magazine cover story (October 30, 2011) recently proclaimed the ‘Rebirth of the Feminist Manifesto’ through feminist blogs. In the article, 20-something feminist blogger, Shelby Knox, described the blogs as her generations’ “version of consciousness-raising groups.” The emergence of digital media, and particularly blogs, represents a crucial new force for civic participation that holds the potential to destabilize old hierarchies, such as gender inequality.

“‘Our version of consciousness-raising groups’: Gender, Race and the Political Economy of Feminist Blogging” is a seminar hosted by Jessie Daniels to be held Wednesday, November 7, 12-2pm at Room 6201, Sociology Lounge, City University of New York.

Relying on a mixed methodology of online ethnography, content analysis and interviews with bloggers who identify as “feminist” or “womanist,” this explores the implications of these technologies as both offering new forms of contestation around gender by circumventing the traditional gatekeepers of publishing and the ways that they reinforce hegemonic discourses of gender and race, through the rhetoric on the blogs themselves, and through the political economy.

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