[Air-L] NEW BOOK: Cyberfeminism in Northern Lights: Digital Media and Gender in a Nordic Context

[Malin Sveningsson]

***apologies for cross posting***

Dear all,

Here's some shameless self-promotion for a new volume on digital media, 
gender and
politics of location:


CYBERFEMINISM IN NORTHERN LIGHTS: Digital Media and Gender in a Nordic 
Context
edited by Malin Sveningsson Elm and Jenny Sundén


What does it mean to study supposedly global media phenomena from a Nordic
perspective? What would be particular and unique about Nordic
cyberfeminism - compared to the “unmarked” version dominating the field
today? Cyberfeminism in Northern Lights pushes the boundaries of
contemporary cyberfeminism. Against the background of an expanding body of
research in the field of digital media and gender - which to this date has
primarily been carried out from an Anglo-American perspective - the book
argues that feminist studies of digital media need to become more
inclusive and aware of their own geographical and cultural biases and
limits. The book is a step in this direction, focusing on the knowledge
and experiences from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland,
Norway and Sweden.


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction, Jenny Sundén & Malin Sveningsson Elm
Digital Media and Gender  in a Nordic Context

Part I: Sexualities, Bodies, and Desire

Chapter One, Jenny Sundén
On Cyberfeminist Intersectionality

Chapter Two, Susanna Paasonen
Online Pornography, Normativity  and the Nordic Context

Chapter Three, Janne C.H. Bromseth
Nordic Feminism in a Cyberlight?

Part II: Gender Identities, Performance, and Presentations of Self

Chapter Four, Malin Sveningsson Elm
Doing and Undoing Gender  in a Swedish Internet Community

Chapter Five, Charlotte Kroløkke
Performing and Positioning PowerBabes

Chapter Six, Cecilia Åsberg and Bodil Axelsson
Digital Performances of Gendered Pasts

Part III: Gendered Computing  and Computer Use

Chapter Seven, AnnBritt Enochsson
Differences and Similarities in Girls’ and Boys’ Internet Use

Chapter Eight, Hilde Corneliussen
Cultural Appropriation of Computers  in Norway 1980-2000

Chapter Nine, Gudbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir  and Lára Rún Sigurvinsdóttir
Surveillance Technology,  Work and Gender

Chapter Ten, Fatima Jonsson
The Absence of Hackerettes  in the Culture of Programming

Closing Essay, Anne Scott Sørensen
Digital Media and Cyberculture:  A Feminist and Nordic Approach


ABOUT THE EDITORS:
Malin Sveningsson Elm is Assistant Professor at the Department of Media
and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. She is the
author of Creating a Sense of Community: Experiences from a Swedish Web
Chat, and co-author of Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies of Identity
and Interactivity on the Internet.

Jenny Sundén is Assistant Professor in Media Technology at the School of
Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholm. She is the author of Material Virtualities: Approaching Online
Textual Embodiment, and co-author of Digital Borderlands: Cultural Studies
of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet.


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Hardback (295pp), UK: £34.99, US: $69.99

 
Malin Sveningsson Elm, PhD
Media & Communication
Faculty of Economic Science, Communication and IT
Karlstad University
SWEDEN
email: malin.sveningsson at kau.se
phone +46 (0)54 700 18 33 (office)
          +46 (0)70 244 38 90 (mobile)