Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology; Issue no. 7: Open Call (April 2015)

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Issue edited by Carol Stabile and Radhika Gajjala

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    [Issue no. 7 Cover]
    (Fembot Collective, 2015-04) McCallum, David
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    Inverto
    (Fembot Collective, 2015-04) Bennett, Alison
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    Curating with a Click: the Art that Participatory Media Leaves Behind
    (Fembot Collective, 2015-04) Ruberg, Bonnie
    At a moment when technological participation seems to promise to bring innovation and democratic access to the contemporary museum, the results from one community-curated exhibit suggest that conservative cultural biases continue to shape the American public’s taste in art. In 2013, the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania collected more than 10,000 online votes for their People’s Choice exhibit. Voters were invited to choose their ‘top’ three artworks from among 125, and the twenty-five artworks that received the most votes were then displayed, while those that didn’t make the cut stayed tucked away behind closed doors. Rather than promoting diversity by making curatorial practices interactive and accessible however, the People’s Choice voting process rendered difference invisible. The result was an exhibit that appealed to the largest number of voters, yet excluded artwork that challenged dominant norms of gendered or racial privilege. Voters consistently chose realistic paintings of landscapes and white female subjects over abstract works, pieces by women, and images of people of color. The People’s Choice exhibit serves as a valuable lesson about the use of participatory media in museums, and about the potential pitfalls of crowdsourcing in new media cultures more broadly, demonstrating the importance of self-reflection as a key component of participatory cultural programming.
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    Reinscribing a New Normal: Pregnancy, Disability, and Health 2.0 in the Online Natural Birthing Community, Birth Without Fear
    (Fembot Collective, 2015-04) De Hertogh, Lori Beth
    I argue in this article that the online natural birthing community, Birth Without Fear, operates as a Health 2.0 space where members reinscribe a new normal regarding disability and pregnancy, a process that both empowers and disempowers women. To explore this issue, I draw on concepts and terminologies from cyberfeminist and feminist disability studies. In using these methodologies, I bring attention to how pregnant bodies are perceived as medically disabled and highlight how Birth Without Fear both positively and negatively shapes rhetorics of pregnancy on the web
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    "Who Do You Think You Are?": When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity
    (Fembot Collective, 2015-04) Cottom, Tressie McMillan
    Populists and capitalists conceptualize academic public writing as a democratizing process. I argue that interlocking structures of oppression contour neoliberal academic appeals for public scholarship. Using data from a public academic blog, I conceptualize the attention economy as stratified by attenuated status groups. I also discuss the methodological promise of digital texts for sociological inquiry.
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    Of Headshots and Hugs: Challenging Hypermasculintiy through the Walking Dead play
    (Fembot Collective, 2015-04) Bell, Kristina; Taylor, Nicholas; Kampe, Christopher
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    Introduction
    (Fembot Collective, 2015-04) Stabile, Carol; Gajjala, Radhika