Gender and Digital Culture - 9780367903633

Taylor & Francis

Gender and Digital CultureBetween Irreconcilability and the Datalogical\nAuthor(s): Helen Thornham\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367903633, 978-0367903633\nSynopsis\nGender and Digital Culture offers a unique contribution to the theoretical and methodological understandings of digital technology as inherently gendered and classed. The silences within, through and from the systems we experience every day, create inequalities that are deeply affective and constitute very real forms of algorithmic vulnerability. The book explores these lived and mundane algorithmic vulnerabilities across three interrelated research projects. These focus on recent digital phenomena including sexting, selfies and wearables, and particular decision-making systems used in health, education and social services. \n\nCentral to this book are the themes of irreconcilability and the datalogical. It makes the case that feminism and gender.