Afrofemtrism: a critical examination of the relationship between gender, technology, and society

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcad032

Betty B B Ackah

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Abstract

Abstract Existing theories in technology and society studies do not comprehensively address the realities of people of African descent, including factors such as their histories, evolving cultures, and power dynamics. The article addresses this gap by constructing afrofemtrism, a gender justice theory which interrogates gender realities in the context of a society’s peculiar interaction with technological advancements. A salient feature of afrofemtrism’s development is the iterative interaction with empirical data from the Ghana blockchain community wherein participants in this study encountered conflicts and congruity between their information and communications technology (ICT) careers and their deeply traditional but cosmopolitan Global South setting. Ultimately, the study critically investigates digital technologies which present inequitable experiences for women in Ghana.

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非洲女权主义:对性别、技术和社会之间关系的批判性审视

现有的技术和社会研究理论并没有全面地解决非洲人后裔的现实问题，包括他们的历史、不断发展的文化和权力动态等因素。本文通过构建非洲女权主义来解决这一差距。非洲女权主义是一种性别正义理论，它在社会与技术进步的特殊互动背景下质疑性别现实。非洲女性主义发展的一个显著特征是与来自加纳区块链社区的经验数据的反复互动，本研究的参与者在其信息和通信技术(ICT)职业与他们根深蒂固的传统但国际化的全球南方环境之间遇到了冲突和一致性。最后，该研究批判性地调查了数字技术给加纳妇女带来的不平等体验。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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期刊介绍： CCC provides an international forum for critical research in communication, media, and cultural studies. We welcome high-quality research and analyses that place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC seeks to bring a diversity of critical approaches (political economy, feminist analysis, critical race theory, postcolonial critique, cultural studies, queer theory) to bear on the role of communication, media, and culture in power dynamics on a global scale. CCC is especially interested in critical scholarship that engages with emerging lines of inquiry across the humanities and social sciences. We seek to explore the place of mediated communication in current topics of theorization and cross-disciplinary research (including affect, branding, posthumanism, labor, temporality, ordinariness, and networked everyday life, to name just a few examples). In the coming years, we anticipate publishing special issues on these themes.