Launch .dpi 30 : Cyber Surveillance

.dpi, Feminist Journal of Art and Digital Culture

Man up! Owning and Pwning the Policing of Gender Online
Guest Editor: Kate Milberry
Presentation
Women’s bodies have been a contested terrain historically, with the battle for control waged by men and later, the patriarchal state. Feminism in its various waves and permutations fought to reclaim the body as an autonomous domain. Nevertheless, the female body remains a scene of struggle: women the world over are engaged in an ongoing contest for autonomy, control, protection and acceptance of our physical selves.
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Do We (Really) Have Culture?
Candace Mooers
Editorial
The policing of gender online is both individual and systemic, and is of paramount concern to most Internet users. In October 2014, the Canadian Parliament passed Bill C-13: Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, a bill touted as a defence against cyber-bullying. In short, anyone who posts or transmits an “intimate image” of another individual without that person's consent could face up to 5 years in prison. Bill C-13 also enables greater police powers: Internet Service Providers may be forced to hand over customer information without a warrant. In Canada, in recent years, 9 telecommunications companies received approximately 1.2 million requests from federal law enforcement agencies for private customer information every year.
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Social Surveillance: Feminist Implications for Online Privacy, Self Disclosure and Gendered Agency
Trevor Scott Milford and Ciara Bracken-Roche
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Queer Technologies of the Selfie: Radical Self-Imaging in the Online Performances of Ann Hirsch and Georges Jacotey
Mikhel Proulx
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How to Hide From Cameras
Jillian Mayer
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POETRY.txt
Annie Malamet
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The Crafting a Feminist Internet
Wednesday Lupypciw, Nicole Burisch and Diana Sherlock
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Do Cyborgs Dream of Performance Art?
Claire Paquet
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Radical Response
Stella Marrs
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De la bible à la télé : Femmes soyez de Carmen Lapchuck
Julie Alary Lavallée
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