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Digital Feminism, Key: Red: Movements Dark Blue: Two Days in the Valley …

- - - - Abolish Silicon Valley – Wendy Liu
        
        Liu believes the capitalistic corruption manifested in Silicon Valley must redistribute its accumulated power
      - “Sheryl Sandberg and the Business of Feminism” – Nicole Aschoff
        
        Aschoff explains the multifaceted problems with Lean In feminism, and the myriad barriers in place for minorities in business
      - Carceral Capitalism – Jackie Wang
        
        Wang explores the compounding of hardship and marginalization though the PredPol algorithm
      - “The Automation Discourse” – Aaron Benanav
        
        Benanav theorizes on how a post-scarcity future should be achieved through the rise of automation
      - Anatomy of an AI System – Crawford and Joler
        
        This project illustrates the complexities and harms of the materials, labor, and data that comprise an Echo
      - “Bullet Screens (Danmu): Texting, Online Streaming, and the Spectacle of Social Inequality” – Xuenan Cao
        
        Cao explores the dangers in young Chinese people spending so much leisure time and money on bullet screen platforms, with little choice to do anything different
      - The Three Ecologies – Felix Guattari
        
        Guattari discourses on the environmental and societal harms of integrated world capitalism
      - Toxic City
        
        This video displays the humans who are impacted negatively by the exportation of electronic waste to third world countries
      - The Circuit
        
        This video shows the inadequacies of the electronics recycling system, leading to environmental harms
      - The Corrupting Nature of Money
        
        Doing morally questionable things can be very profitable...
    - - The Queer Games Avant-Garde – Bonnie Ruberg
        
        The interviews with McClure and Jones reflect both the need for gaming culture to better reflect the complexities of humans and for society to uptake the good parts of gaming
      - “A Conspiracy of Fishes, or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #Gamergate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity” – Chess and Shaw
        
        Academia and the gaming world must concomitantly work towards being more understanding of the values of each other
      - The Dark Side of Cloud Computing – Stephan Schmidt
        
        Hardware and software must concomitantly be made greener for the sake of energy savings
      - “#MeToo is a Movement not a Moment” – Tarana Burke
        
        Individuals in the MeToo Movement are doing the work; the culture of our country must change to decentralize the power of the privileged
      - “Un violador en tu camino” – Las Tesis
        
        The women place culpability on the society that allows their rapists to run free and allows sexual assault to happen at all
      - “I Can’t Breathe” – Pussy Riot
        
        Condemns the systemic racism that allows for the unjust murder of Black lives
      - Weapons of Math Destruction, Ch. 3, 5, 6, & 10 – Cathy O’Neil
        
        O’Neil details several systems which algorithmically oppress
        
        Feedback Loops
        
        How are inequities and harm compounded?
      - “Unfinished Work: From Cyborg to Cognisphere” – Katherine Hayles
        
        Hayles describes the coevolutionary spiral, wherein humans and technology evolve together, so one cannot change without the other
  - - - “When the black lives that matter are not our own: digital black feminism and a dialectic of self and community” – Catherine Knight Steele
        
        Feminism must be intersectional; activism must include Black women who have so often helped the causes of other groups
      - “Reclaiming Feminism” – Catherine Rottenberg
        
        Rottenberg calls for a move away from neoliberal influences on feminism and wants a feminism that works for everyone
      - Technofeminsim – Judy Wajcman
        
        Feminists must be careful not to confuse innovation with utopia or post-feminism
      - “Xenofeminism. A Politics for Alienation” – Laboria Cuboniks
        
        Cuboniks describes a new type of feminism that is all inclusive
      - “Show Your Work” – D’Ignazio and Klein
        
        Data feminism must make visible the work of all involved
      - Intersectionality
    - - Bhattarai explores how code is inextricable from its cultural context, and the importance of recognizing the inherit biases in it
    - - Haraway opines that human cyborgs can leverage their transient identities for social change outside of confining distinctions
    - - Keller critiques the humans as cyborg metaphor and calls for zombies, a less problematic embodiment
    - - Gaming culture must shift to accommodate and include diverse identities
    - - Empathy must be cultivated between disparate groups to prevent such disagreements
    - - Federici demands the recognition of housework in terms of labor and value in our society
- - - - This documentary explained the origins of the tech hub of the U.S., leaving the viewer to draw their own conclusions about what should happen next
    - - This case study of the .com boom speaks to the broader tech phenomenon without expressing a value judgement
    - - Gevinson explains her move away from Instagram and how it impacted her mental health
      - Performance Online
        
        How does digitally mediated communication subvert the identity of the person behind it, either consciously or subconsciously?
    - - The authors describe the ways in which health data is constantly collected by companies
    - - Striphas defines key terms that have manifested from the place of algorithms in our society
    - - This documentary traces the rise of AI, from the people it impacts to the companies at the bleeding edge
    - - Amazon’s ad shows the Echo Look fashion assistant as an AI innovation
    - - Russell’s video shows how Black people have expressed themselves through digital means, and how that has further influenced memes
    - - Srnicek explains how the rise of platforms has changed the economy
  - - - Palatable activism raises many questions regarding intentions and ubiquity of feminism in the digital age
    - - Rottenberg details the factors, like Sandberg, that created the recent strain of “Lean In” feminism
    - - Seu created a resource for people to learn more about cyberfeminist texts
      - Echo Chambers of the Internet
        
        What happens when people are placed into online communities that stifle their empathy for other groups?
    - - The interviewees discuss their projects and influences in the realm of cyberfeminism
    - - Schleiner explores facets of the video game character Lara Croft, and how she speaks to the broader gaming community
- - - - People must continue to do the work to support Black trans lives, by Googling about it
    - - Sandburg wants women to mobilize themselves to enact changes in the equity of the workplace
    - - The authors present principles from their book for intersectional feminists to practice in the pandemic
    - - Russell calls for feminists to lean into the parts of their identity that society wants to skim over to be a “glitch”
    - - Russell and Seu discuss practices they endorse, like glitching and extensive footnoting, that people can do to further collective causes
    - - Chess believes feminists should incorporate play into their everyday lives
    - - Nakamura details how people can be more intentional internet users
    - - Lialina paints a picture of an internet user who controls their devices and software, instead of the other way around
      - Medium as "the message"
        
        How does the digital location of an article change its impact?
    - - Haraway wants humans to become kin with all earthly organisms
  - - - Pao describes the glass ceiling, yet another way women are held back professionally
    - - Rosenblatt details the harms of Uber’s algorithms and the rise of the gig economy
    - - Parvin discusses the derogatory implications of Amazon’s device
    - - The movie displays the costs of social media’s ubiquity on the people who have to moderate it
    - - Ahmed describes the planned obsolesce of electronics companies and the difficulty of sustainably consuming devices
    - - How are tech companies, individually and as a whole, engaging in harmful practices that impact so many people?