Bringing together contributors of the book, this speaker series explores how feminists employ a variety of online platforms, practices, and tools to create spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular forms of individual, consumerist, white feminism in favor of collective, tangible action.

This session approaches to exploring networking feminisms.

Meet our Speakers:

Speaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism

Melissa Brown earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Her research uses intersectionality as an analytical framework to examine big datasets harvested from social networking sites to study the formation of identity and community.

Tara L. Conley is an interdisciplinary Black feminist scholar, mediamaker, and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University. Her research centers Black life in the study and exploration of place, media histories, and technoculture. You can learn more about Dr. Conley’s scholarship and multimedia projects by visiting www.taralconley.org.

Helena Suárez Val is an activist, producer and researcher in the areas of human rights, feminism and digital cultures. She is on a PhD programme at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick and is co-lead, with Catherine D’Ignazio (Data + Feminism Lab (MIT)) and Silvana Fumega (ILDA), on Data Against Feminicide, an action-research project. Since 2015, she maintains feminicidiouruguay.net, a database and map of gender-related violent deaths of women in Uruguay.

Meet our Hosts:

Shana MacDonald is Associate Professor in Communication Arts and the current President of the Film Studies Association of Canada.

Brianna I. Wiens (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher in Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo.

Dr. MacDonald and Dr. Wiens are co-directors of the qcollaborative (qLab), a feminist design lab dedicated to developing new forms of relationality through technologies of public performance.