Nasty Women and Digital Hygiene - a talk by Elizabeth Losh

[Frances Condon]

The Department of English Language and Literature and HeForShe are proud to announce “Nasty Women and Digital Hygiene: Feminism, Risk, and the Purity Myths of Technoculture," a talk by Dr. Elizabeth Losh to take place Tuesday, September 11 at 2PM In PAS 2438. All are welcome to attend. Please share the attached poster with students, colleagues and friends.

Elizabeth Losh is an Associate Professor of English and American Studies at William and Mary with a specialization in New Media Ecologies.  Before coming to William and Mary, she directed the Culture, Art, and Technology Program at the University of California, San Diego.  She is a core member and former co-facilitator of the feminist technology collective FemTechNet, which offers a Distributed Open Collaborative Course, steering committee member of HASTAC, and part of the organizing team of The Selfie Course.  She is the is the author of Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (MIT Press, 2009) and The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (MIT Press, 2014). She is the co-author of the comic book textbook Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing (Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013) with Jonathan Alexander.  She is also the author of a forthcoming edited collection MOOCs and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education from the University of Chicago Press. In addition to recent work on selfies and hashtag activism, she has also written a number of frequently cited essays about communities that produce, consume, and circulate online video, videogames, digital photographs, text postings, and programming code. The diverse range of subject matter analyzed in her scholarship has included coming out videos on YouTube, videogame fan films created by immigrants, combat footage from soldiers in Iraq shot on mobile devices, video evidence created for social media sites by protesters on the Mavi Marmara, remix videos from the Arab Spring, the use of Twitter and Facebook by Indian activists working for women's rights after the Delhi rape case, and the use of Instagram by anti-government activists in Ukraine.  Much of this body of work concerns the legitimation of political institutions through visual evidence, representations of war and violence in global news, and discourses about human rights.  This work has appeared in edited collections from MIT Press, Routledge, University of Chicago, Minnesota, Oxford, Continuum, and many other presses.



With Warm Regards,

Dr. Frankie Condon
Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
University of Waterloo

Dr. Frankie Condon
Associate Professor of English Language and Literature
University of Waterloo

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
~Audre Lorde.

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