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Mia Liinason. Foto.

Mia Liinason

Research Responsible | Professor

Mia Liinason. Foto.

Technocultural worldings

Other contributions

  • Mia Liinason
  • Ov Cristian Norocel

Summary, in English

In this piece, which frames the special issue “Technocultural worldings,” we build on previous editions of commentary and criticism in this journal. We propose a theoretically anchored way to systematically approach the dynamic, multidimensional, and heterogeneous technocultural communities that have created their own worldings and are engaged in complex dialectical dynamics within the contemporary media landscape. The technocultural communities that are part of these dialectical dynamics are constituted, on the one hand, by the complex collective sense-making of the emancipatory political programs of feminist and LGBTI+ initiatives and, on the other, by the retrogressive mobilizations of far-right and anti-gender movements. Hence, we argue that these worldings come into being due to the ability conferred by digital spaces to incorporate both material and virtual components in performances of gender and sexuality, in all their complex diversity. These issues are explored in more detail in eight articles, grouped into two discretely separate sections, one exploring emancipatory technocultural worldings, while the other describes retrogressive technocultural worldings.

Department/s

  • LU Profile Area: Human rights
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
  • Department of Gender Studies
  • Systematic Theology

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Publication/Series

Feminist Media Studies

Document type

Editor for a journal

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Gender Studies
  • Human Aspects of ICT
  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • technocultural worldings
  • emancipatory political programs
  • retrogressive mobilizations
  • feminist and LGBTI+ initiatives
  • far-right and anti-gender movements

Status

Epub

Project

  • TechnAct: A research environment on gender, sexualities, transnational communities and digital technologies
  • The Extreme Right Metapolitical Project in the Digital Age

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1471-5902