Gendered Perspectives on Digital Authoritarianism

Abstract

This panel intends to bring together researchers working on how gender and social reproduction play out in authoritarian arrangements on digital media and platforms. The crisis of social reproduction is a central dimension of the global poly-crisis of our age, which concretely manifests in the rise of anti-gender discourses, sexism, and hypermasculinity that characterize many authoritarian regimes and movements. In this respect, this panel seeks to address the bottom-up currents and the state-induced and platformized restraints that enact authoritarian modalities within the digital media and platform capitalism framework. Furthermore, it aims to discuss the feminist, queer, and labor-related resistances and counter-mobilizations utilizing and taking shape in digital media.

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