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 ere.\n\nContemporary feminisms are largely understood as something people 
 do using digital media inside the infrastructures of digital media platfor
 ms. Today\, making media and getting connected online powerfully define no
 tions of “the political.” Drawing from feminist media scholar Alison Piepm
 eier’s ask of feminist scholars to “come with different expectations of wh
 at political work and activism look like\,” this panel considers what digi
 tal feminisms do and how they transform the meanings\, practices\, and exp
 eriences of doing political work. Connected by their research interests in
  feminist coalitional thought and practice\, panelists Jessa Lingel (Unive
 rsity of Pennsylvania) and Jessalyn Keller (University of Calgary) will pr
 esent short talks to prompt discussion of what digital feminisms make happ
 en\, and how they define social change and movement organizing around femi
 nist media making. Panelist Carrie Rentschler (���ϲ����� University) will mod
 erate a discussion of these topics with the panelists and facilitate a que
 stion-and-answer period with the audience.\n\nJessa Lingel\, “Feminist Coa
 lition Building and Digital Technologies”\n\nCoalition work is central to 
 activist organizing (Ciccia & Roggeband\, 2021)\, and it is also a hallmar
 k of intersectional feminism (Cole\, 2008)\, which recognizes that structu
 ral inequalities operate along multiple axes of subjectivity (Taylor\, 201
 7). For activists\, coalitions can contribute to ideological and community
  diversity\, but they can also be read as reflecting the scarcity of organ
 izing resources (Chavez\, 2013\; Joseph\, 2002). While digital technologie
 s can facilitate some components of coalition building\, they also run the
  risk of making these links seem or feel too thin to bear the weight of su
 bstantive activist work. As part of thinking through the feminist praxis o
 f digital technologies\, I want to ask\, what does coalition work look lik
 e within activist groups\, and also as they reach out to other collectives
 ? Put another way\, what are the intra- and inter-collaborations that take
  shape in activist coalition work? How do digital technologies make collab
 oration both more feasible and more difficult?\n\nJessa Lingel is an Assoc
 iate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and core faculty 
 in the Gender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program at the University of
  Pennsylvania. She received her PhD in communication and information from 
 Rutgers University. She has an MLIS from Pratt Institute and an MA in gend
 er studies from New York University. Her research interests include digita
 l inequalities and technological distributions of power. Using qualitative
  methods\, Lingel studies how marginalized and countercultural groups use 
 and reshape digital media. She is author of An Internet for the People: Th
 e Politics and Promise of craigslist (Princeton University Press 2020) and
  The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (U
 niversity of California Press 2021).\n\nJessalynn Keller\, “Feminist Inter
 net Coalitions: Rethinking Aughts Feminist Blogging”\n\nPopularized throug
 hout the first decade of the 21st century\, feminist blogging is often rem
 embered as producing feminist writers and tastemakers well-known for their
  best-selling books\, highly-circulated articles\, and extensive public co
 mmentary. These (primarily) white women\, the narrative goes\, were centra
 l in making feminism popular and accessible into the 2010s. However\, in t
 his short talk I suggest a re-framing of aughts feminist blogging as a pra
 ctice of coalitional politics that prioritized making lives out of feminis
 t blogging\, rather than making careers out of the practice. Drawing on in
 terviews with aughts feminist bloggers I re-center the oft-overlooked cont
 ributions of women of colour bloggers who I argue intentionally built a fl
 eeting feminist Internet in the 2000s that prioritized not only coalition\
 , but safety\, patience\, and support.\n\nJessalyn Keller is an Associate 
 Professor in the Department of Communication\, Media and Film at the Unive
 rsity of Calgary\, Canada. She is the author of Girls’ Feminist Blogging i
 n a Postfeminist Age (Routledge 2015)\, co-editor of Emergent Feminisms: C
 omplicating a Postfeminist Media Culture (Routledge 2018) and co-author of
  Digital Feminist Activism (Oxford University Press 2019). As the Muriel G
 old Visiting Professor at ���ϲ����� University in Fall 2023\, Dr. Keller has 
 been working on a new SSHRC-funded book project tracing cultural histories
  of the aughts feminist blogosphere.\n
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SUMMARY:'Doing Digital Feminisms: Media Making and Political Action' Panel 
 Discussion with Jessalynn Keller and Jessa Lingel 
URL:/igsf/channels/event/doing-digital-feminisms-media
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