Feminist Eventfulness, Boredom and the 1984 Canadian Leadership Debate on Women's Issues

Thrift, Samantha C.

doi:10.1080/14680777.2011.615634

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“…‘Binders Full of Women’ was more than a meme. It was also a feminist event (see Thrift, 2012, 2014). Facebook comments on the timeliness and quickness of the meme’s propagation came to define the meme’s eventfulness and its emerging infrastructure for reproduction.…”

Section: Comment Structures and The Temporal Signposts Of Online Femimentioning

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Doing feminism in the network: Networked laughter and the ‘Binders Full of Women’ meme

2015

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We analyse how memes construct networks of feminist critique and response, mobilising the derisive laughter that energises current feminisms. Using the 2012 case of the ‘Binders Full of Women’ meme, we argue that feminist memes create online spaces of consciousness raising and community building. The timeliness, humorous affect and media techné of meme propagators become significant infrastructures for feminist critique, what we term ‘doing feminism in the network’. If the Internet is particularly good at facilitating the diffusion of feminist jokes, as others argue, we illustrate how the networking and distribution capacities of social media platforms such as Tumblr, Facebook and the online shopping site Amazon.com also cultivate new modes of feminist cultural critique and models of political agency for practising feminism through meme production and propagation.

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Section: Comment Structures and The Temporal Signposts Of Online Femimentioning

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Doing feminism in the network: Networked laughter and the ‘Binders Full of Women’ meme

2015

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“…Specifically, this special issue conceptualises and analyses three key dimensions of recent and contemporary feminisms' media practices: feminist media events, the online and paper archives of feminism, and feminist activist techne´-the technical practices and practical knowledge feminists come to embody as they do feminism with media. Feminists build technological, affective and cultural infrastructures through which they produce, disseminate and share resources, ideas and knowledge, whether through older fax machine networks for distributing movement newsletters (Feigenbaum, 2008;Rentschler, 2015), activist Google mapping of young women's testimonials to sexual harassment and online aggregations of digital video testimonials to sexual violence and survivor experiences (Rentschler, 2014), or clippings files around which movements judge their public visibility (Thrift, 2011), for example.…”

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