Technologies of Non-Violence: Re-Imagining Mobile and Social Media Practices in the Lives of Girls and Young Women
Guest Editor: Laurel Hart
Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions for upcoming special issues.
This special issue seeks to examine the ways in which the notion of technologies of non-violence might lead to a re-imagining of both urban and rural spaces as sites of networked resistance and transformation for girls and young women.
Contributions to this themed issue may address, among others, the following questions:
- What existing digital technologies of non-violence are used or could be used by girls and young women (both online
and offine)? In what ways do they (or might they) function for girls and young women in relation to emergency communication,
local storytelling, education, or addressing contexts and circumstances that put girls at risk?
- What historical technologies might be re-examined as girl-centered technologies of non-violence?
- What types of software and support infrastructures exist to facilitate girls’ and young women’s development of technologies
of non-violence (for example, the plug-and-play MIT App Inventor)? What roles do NGOs, universities, and
crowdsourcing hold in the development and support of these softwares, and other forms of technologies of non-violence?
- What technology-enabled research methods are being used by and with girls and young women to create various kinds
of data (for example, affective storytelling media)? How does this work inform policy making?
- In what ways might mobile technologies designed for non-violence meet the needs of diverse groups of girls and young
women such as, for instance, LGBTi, indigenous, and racial minority girls as well as girls with disabilities, and other marginalized
populations?
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