Introduction: Visualizing Protest: Transnational Approaches to the Aesthetics of Dissent

Ela Pryzbylo,Veronika Novoselova,Saraç Rodrigues

doi:10.5399/uo/ada.2018.14.1

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Abstract

In this issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, we invited contributors to engage with how protest is visualized, that is, rendered visual in the form of iconography and through social media, and imagined as a utopian project of feminist, queer, and anti-racist worldmaking. Inviting scholarship and creative engagements from the overlapping perspectives of feminist media studies, transnational feminist theory, critical race studies, visual studies, and postcolonial digital humanities, this special issue examines the aesthetics of feminist protests in terms of their networked circulations as well as their affective bonds and material contexts. Exploring the emerging modes of visibility, networked solidarity, and collaborative knowledge production, “Visualizing Protest: Transnational Approaches to the Aesthetics of Dissent” examines the relationships between the aesthetics of feminist transnational protest and digital revolt in a dynamic, polymedia context characterized by amateur remixing, instantaneous sharing, immaterial labour, corporate ownership of digital platforms, and institutionalized state surveillance of social media.

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Visualizing Protest:Transnational Approaches to the Aesthetics of Dissent - Ada New Media
This issue was inspired in large part by our investment and fascination with the visual lives of feminist symbology both online and offline
Visualizing Protest:Transnational Approaches to the Aesthetics of Dissent - Ada New Media intersectional-or-it-will-be-bullshit/),” Dzodan talked about the importance of grounded intersectionality for feminism and challenged metaphors that conflated women’s oppression with racialized oppression, disregarding how the two interrelate and overlap through long histories and present-day realities of colonialism and imperialism (Dzodan 2011)

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Located at the intersections of media studies and feminist theory, her most recent research explores how digitally mediated confessions reveal negotiations of privilege and difference in feminist blogging cultures. In addition to teaching and research, Veronika has served as a Managing Editor at Feral Feminisms, a peer-reviewed multimedia journal based in Toronto. Sara Rodrigues is a researcher and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Thought (York University). Her work has appeared in Human Studies, Sexualities, and International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, among others. She is a Founding Editor of Feral Feminisms. She is a Founding Editor of Feral Feminisms. http://www.feralfeminisms.com/