Full Description
Feminist Digital Methods redefines the role of methods in research, pedagogy, and activism in an increasingly digitized world. Grounded in intersectional feminist epistemologies, the volume challenges the neoliberal fetishization of "methodological rigor" over ethical and political accountability. It frames methods as situated, socially embedded enactments shaped by historical, cultural, and material contexts. Contributors—spanning early career scholars, practitioners, and activists—critically reflect on the tools, platforms, and approaches they use, highlighting how feminist digital methods can interrogate power, dismantle systemic exclusions, and create transformative pathways for research and activism. With chapters on algorithmic bias, crip epistemologies, feminist data visualization, social media ethics, multispecies GIS, and feminist game design, the book bridges theoretical debates and actionable practice. It is a resource for anyone seeking to combine digital tools with feminist commitments to care, justice, and reciprocity.
Contents
Introduction: Why Digital Methods? Why a Feminist Lens?. Section 1: Feminist Digital Methods as Interventions into Digital Tools, Platforms, and Systems. Chapter 1: "You Must Be a Patriot Before You Can Be a Feminist": The Anti-Feminist Discursive Strategies of Cyber-Nationalists in Chinese Social Media. Chapter 2: Feminist Collaborative Writing and Future Nonlinearity in Uncertain Times: Expansive Experiments Beyond the Limits of Twine. Chapter 3: Algorithmic Bias and Feminist Futures: Unmasking Power Dynamics in Artificial Intelligence. Chapter 4: Datafied Bodies: The Intersection of Technology, Gender, and Healthcare in a Post-humanist Era. Chapter 5: Towards Embodied Knowing: Rethinking Blind Methodologies and Digital Accessibility in Disability Research. Section 2: Feminist Digital Methods as Praxis of Care. Chapter 6: The (S)low Femme Method: Contours of Care in Queer Digital Participant-Observer Research. Chapter 7: Uprising through Care as Resistance. Chapter 8: On Choosing the Bear. Chapter 9: "For Anyone Who Needs This": Methodological Reflections on Studying Healing Hashtags on TikTok. Chapter 10: Radical Reimagination of Scholarly Futures Through Care and Collaboration. Chapter 11: Questions of Care: Embracing an Intersectional Feminist Perspective for Ethical Social Media Research. Section 3: Feminist Digital Methods as Public Pedagogy. Chapter 12: Hybrid Archives: Exploring the Intersection of Digital and Analog Memory in Black Apocalyptic Futures. Chapter 13: Application of Feminist Principles of Data Visualization to the Project "Designing for Intersectional Fat Liberation". Chapter 14: The Mother of All Game Jams: Feminist Game Design, Motherhood, and Community Engagement. Chapter 15: "I Want to Be Invisible": Alternative Reality Games and Feminist Digital Storytelling.
