TY - JOUR
T1 - Intersectionality, Hybridity, and (Inter)disciplinary Research on Digitality
T2 - a conversation among scholars of gender, sexuality, and embodiment.
AU - Geerts, Evelien
AU - Rahbari, Ladan
AU - De Vuyst, Sara
AU - Evolvi, Giulia
AU - Zarabadi, Shiva
PY - 2022/7/29
Y1 - 2022/7/29
N2 - During the past two decades or so, the emergence and ever-accelerating development of digital media have sparked scholarly interest, debates, and complex challenges across many disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Within this diverse scholarship, the research on digitality, gender, sexuality, and embodiment has contributed substantially to many academic fields, such as media studies, sociology, religion, philosophy, and education studies. As a part of the special issue “Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Digital Spheres: Connecting Intersectionality and Digitality,” this roundtable consists of a conversation between five researchers from different (inter)disciplinary locations, all addressing matters of methodology, intersectionality, positionality, and theory in relation to the topics of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in digital spheres. Said roundtable begins with a critical self-positioning of the participants’ (inter)disciplinary and embodied locations using examples from their own research. The conversation then progresses to how these researchers have employed contemporary theories, conceptual vocabularies, methods, and analyses of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in digital spheres to then conclude with some ethico-political notes about collaborations between scholars and (digital) activists.
AB - During the past two decades or so, the emergence and ever-accelerating development of digital media have sparked scholarly interest, debates, and complex challenges across many disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. Within this diverse scholarship, the research on digitality, gender, sexuality, and embodiment has contributed substantially to many academic fields, such as media studies, sociology, religion, philosophy, and education studies. As a part of the special issue “Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment in Digital Spheres: Connecting Intersectionality and Digitality,” this roundtable consists of a conversation between five researchers from different (inter)disciplinary locations, all addressing matters of methodology, intersectionality, positionality, and theory in relation to the topics of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in digital spheres. Said roundtable begins with a critical self-positioning of the participants’ (inter)disciplinary and embodied locations using examples from their own research. The conversation then progresses to how these researchers have employed contemporary theories, conceptual vocabularies, methods, and analyses of gender, sexuality, and embodiment in digital spheres to then conclude with some ethico-political notes about collaborations between scholars and (digital) activists.
KW - Digitality
KW - Gender
KW - Sexuality
KW - Embodiment
KW - Intersectionality
KW - Interdisciplinarity
KW - Hybridity
KW - Positionality
KW - Continental philosophy
KW - Critical theory
U2 - 10.33621/jdsr.v4i3.140
DO - 10.33621/jdsr.v4i3.140
M3 - Article
SN - 2003-1998
VL - 4
SP - 86
EP - 106
JO - Journal of Digital Social Research
JF - Journal of Digital Social Research
IS - 3
ER -