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Towards a feminist interpretation of the web RSS
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Posted by Dana Wheeles on Apr 01, 2010 06:08PM

At the recent Shape of Things conference at UVa, Matt Kirschenbaum made an insightful comment about the role of scholars in a digital world: we are curators of the past, he said, as well as editors and analysts of the present. Having spent a good deal of time thinking about a scholar's approach to the world wide web, I wonder how we might shift our area of inquiry to feminist scholarship.

To begin with the obvious, the web has allowed for the explosion of amazing feminist blogs, facilitating an unprecedented amount of savvy discussions of popular culture. But what about the construct of the web itself? How might feminist theory enhance our understanding of the culture of the web as well as the digital humanities?
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