Feminist Book Club
What is the Feminist Book Club?
The first edition of the Feminist Book Club at CPDP was a great success! Three books were presented and discussed during the CPDP conference.
The Feminist Book Club, hosted by Privacy Salon, LSTS and Anastasia Karagianni, is a book club dedicated to exploring the intersection of feminism, law, and digital technologies. This initiative, lead by Anastasia Karagianni, aims to foster interdisciplinary discussions and raise awareness of feminist issues within academia and beyond. The club curates contemporary feminist literature that addresses critical topics such as gender norms in digital spaces, feminist perspectives on cyber law, and the role of AI in reinforcing or challenging societal structures. The club's goal is to create a space for intellectual exchange and social activism.
About the books
Feminist AI by Kerry McInerney
Feminist AI showcases the vital contributions of feminist scholarship to thinking about AI, data, and intelligent machines as well as laying the groundwork for future feminist scholarship on AI. It brings together scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, from computer science, software engineering, and medical sciences to political theory, anthropology, and literature. It provides an entry point for scholars of AI, science and technology into the diversity of feminist approaches to AI, and creates a rich dialogue between scholars and practitioners of AI to examine the powerful congruences and generative tensions between different feminist approaches to new and emerging technologies. It features original and essential works specially selected to span multiple generations of practitioners and scholars.
When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age by Anna Gjika
Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusing on surveillance, we should examine such incidents for what they tell us about youth peer cultures and the gender norms and sexual ethics governing their interactions. Drawing from interviews with teens and high-profile cases of mediated juvenile sexual assault, Gjika exposes the deeply unequal and heteronormative power dynamics informing teens' intimate relationships and online practices, and she critically interrogates the role of digital cultures and broader social values in sanctioning abuse. The book also explores the consequences of social media and digital evidence for young victim-survivors and perpetrators of sexual assault, detailing the paradoxical capacities of technology for social and legal responses to gender-based violence.
Feminist Cyberlaw by Amanda Levendowski
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism.
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