McKinney Information Activism

A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0933-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: Sign, Storage, Transmission

Cait McKinney traces how lesbian feminist activists in the United States and Canada between the 1970s and the present developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives to use as a foundation for their feminist, antiracist, and trans-inclusive work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKinney, Cait

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Internet That Lesbians Built: Newsletter Networks 33
2. Calling to Talk and Listening Well: Information as Care at Telephone Hotlines 67
3. The Indexers: Dreaming of Computers while Shuffling Paper Cards 105
4. Feminist Digitization Practices at the Lesbian Herstory Archives 153
Epilogue. Doing Lesbian Feminism in an Age of Information Abundance 205
Notes 217
Bibliography 261
Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Cait McKinney is Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University and coeditor of Inside Killjoy's Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings.