Digital storytelling encompasses a broad and crucial area of both cultural production and consumption. In Amy Shield Dobson’s Postfeminist Digital Cultures: Femininity, Social Media, and Self-Representation, young women are the active agents responsible for establishing and creating narratives in the media landscape—they are cultural producers. Using social networking sites as their blank page, these young women digitally reflect and experiment with their identities, participate in the creation and expression of others’, and contribute to the understanding of self-representation within gendered narratives of authorship and self-discovery. Dobson approaches these questions much like a scholar does humanities studies; using social, cultural, political, and historical contexts Dobson theorizes girlhood … Continue reading Women and Cultural Reproduction: Self-Representation as Digital Storytelling

This is a position paper in response to Johanna Drucker’s chapter “Interface and Interpretation”, in her 2014 book Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Productions. To read the author’s related annotated bibliography, click here. The Production of InterSpace: Imagining a Feminist GUI Design Process by Nathalie Down “The structure of an interface is information, not nearly a means to accept it.” I want to draw attention to Drucker’s position that the graphical user interface (GUI) is best understood as a “space of provocation in which a performative event takes place,” rather than a “representation of computational processes” (138). This paradigmatic shift from perceiving interface as a thing … Continue reading The Production of a Feminist InterSpace