Digital Cultures Lecture Series

This talk explores the ebbs and flows of feminism in the 21st century with particular attention to visual culture of digital media in the last decade. As the title indicates, the recent decade of fourth-wave feminism is best characterized as a networked series of utopic refusals. This talk considers what the visual culture found in film and television, as well as memes, viral videos and protest posters, can tell us about this decade of tumultuous resistance. Most significantly, the talk considers the seeds that have been planted within these ephemera for more equitable futures and how we can take these as a blueprint for our ongoing work in the present.

Shana MacDonald

Shana MacDonald

Associate professor of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo

Shana MacDonald is an associate professor of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo.

Her SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary research examines feminist, queer, and anti-racist media activisms within social and digital media, memes, popular culture, cinema, and contemporary art. She co-runs the online archive Feminists Do Media and co-directs the Feminist Think Tank housed at the Games Institute. She has published in Feminist Media Studies (2020), Camera Obscura (2022), MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture (forthcoming), and is lead co-editor of Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices (2022) and co-editor of Stories of Feminist Protest and Resistance: Digital Performative Assemblies (2023).

Date and time
Apr 20, 2023
All day
Format and location
Simard Hall (SMD)
SMD 125 or on Zoom
Language
English
Audience
Organized by
Faculty of Arts
Part of the Digital Cultures Lecture Series