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Week 13: Toxic Technocultures

Mandatory Reading

  • Banet-Weiser, S., & Miltner, K. M. (2016). #MasculinitySoFragile: Culture, structure, and networked misogyny. Feminist Media Studies, 16(1), 171-174. DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2016.1120490. SocialJustcie_Syllabus
  • Massanari, A. (2017). #Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures. New media & society, 19(3), 329-346.
  • Matamoros-Fernández, A. (2017). Platformed racism: The mediation and circulation of an Australian race-based controversy on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Information, Communication & Society, 20(6), 930–946. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1293130
  • Liao, S. (2024). The platformization of misogyny: Popular media, gender politics, and misogyny in China’s state-market nexus. Media, Culture & Society, 46(1), 191–203. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437221146905

Further Reading

  • Banet-Weiser, S. (2018). Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny. Duke UP.

Rationale

I considered combining this module with the module on feminism under the theme of “digital feminism.” However, I eventually decided to focus on the negative feelings and behaviors arising from and associated with digital cultures.