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- Harrison, Katherine, 1977-
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Detecting bodily and discursive noise in the naming of biotech products
- 2010
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Ingår i: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES. - : Sage; 1999. - 1350-5068 .- 1461-7420. ; 17:4, s. 347-361
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article contributes to existing feminist technoscience analyses by proposing a new tool for examining how norms governing viable and unviable bodies are discursively constructed in an increasingly technologized world. This tool is the result of synthesizing two existing concepts: white noise from the field of media theory/information studies, and the abject from psychosemiotics/gender studies. Synthesizing these two concepts produces an enriched term for detecting interrelations between discursive disturbances and disturbances in bodily norms. In this article, the synthesized concept (abject/noise) is used as a tool to analyse material concerning the assignment of International Nonproprietary Names (or generic names) to biotechnological drugs. Biotech offers itself as a prime testing ground for this new tool, replete as it is with bodily anxieties, powerful discourses and innovative technologies. This article compares three versions of an INN guidance document showing how anxieties about bodily norms are reflected in, and managed through, these documents.
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- Harrison, Katherine, 1977-
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Discursive skin : Entanglements of gender, discourse and technology
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between gender, discourse and technology, and the resulting construction of bodily norms, in a contemporary environment dominated by info- and bio-technologies. The premise from which this study starts is that the ‘intra-action’ between gender, discourse and technology plays a central role in shaping contemporary identities. The study is based on close readings of material from three case studies: cyberpunk fiction, (in)fertility weblogs and the World Health Organisation guidelines on naming of biotechnologies. The distinctive combination of the three case studies provides a unique perspective on the relationship between gender, discourse and technology, showing how it shifts across different contexts, and demonstrating the socio-historical contingency of the bodily norms produced therein.This study is comprised of three empirical texts, one theoretical text and a kappa. The analysis shows how innovative cyberpunk narratives challenge not only human/non-human boundaries, but also genre and gender conventions. The specific format of the blog allows women’s experiences of infertility to be heard and produces hybrid discourses which challenge contemporary authoritative discourses about femininity. The third case study explores the assignment of International Nonproprietary Names to new biotechnologies, and the implications of this on the construction of patients’ bodies. Finally, the theoretical text contributes to existing feminist analyses of technoscience by proposing a new tool called abject/noise for examining disruptions to discursive and bodily coherence. This tool is then tested on a series of documents about the assignment of International Nonproprietary Names to new biotechnologies. Throughout, the importance of ‘situated knowledges’ is emphasised, both in how gender, discourse and technology are understood, but also in the norms produced and the position of the researcher.
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- Harrison, Katherine, 1977-
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Gender resistance : interrogating the ‘punk’ in cyberpunk
- 2012
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Ingår i: Frontiers of cyberspace. - Amsterdam : Rodopi. - 9789042035836 ; , s. 207-227
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter, I examine two cyberpunk texts to assess whether their apparent resistance to mainstream society includes resistance to gender stereotypes. Writing from a feminist perspective, I suggest that much of the disruptive potential of this genre is derived from its integration of ‘punk’ as a discourse or practice of resistance to social ‘norms.’ Punk explicitly sets out to upset preconceived notions of identity, subscribing to values which highlight ‘alternative’ ways of being. I focus on Candas Jane Dorsey’s short story ‘(Learning about) Machine Sex’ - a feminist parody of cyberpunk - and Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash - a second-wave cyberpunk text. Dorsey’s text centres on female protagonist Angel, who creates a piece of software designed to program the human body to orgasm. In so doing, Dorsey exploits the sexualised rhetoric of technology often seen in early cyberpunk, resulting in an ironic, open-ended narrative. Stephenson’s novel provides an interesting counterpoint to Dorsey’s text, bringing together ‘classic’ cyberpunk concerns about on/off-line life with contemporary social anxieties about bodily boundaries, religious fundamentalism, migration and global corporatisation. I have deliberately chosen texts whose relationship with first-wave cyberpunk is complicated either by an explicitly feminist standpoint (Dorsey) or a generational distance (Stephenson), in order to assess whether these authors avoid or succumb to the same critiques levelled at early cyberpunk about gender representation. I am concerned with who and what these texts are resisting, and how this resistance is performed. This line of enquiry, however, also demands a closer examination of the positive connotations attached to ‘resistance’ in cyberpunk, and, consequently, to ask whose interests are not represented. To do this, I use the disruptive associations of ‘punk’ as a tool, looking not only at particular themes of resistance within the text, but also how the authors’ innovative stylistic manoeuvres resist genre conventions.
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- Harrison, Katherine, 1977-
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Gender resistance: interrogating the ‘punk’ in cyberpunk
- 2010
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Ingår i: Humanity in Cybernetic Environments. - Oxford : Inter-Disciplinary Press. - 9781904710714 ; , s. 103-113
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, I examine two cyberpunk texts to assess whether their apparentresistance to mainstream society includes resistance to gender stereotypes.Writing from a feminist perspective, I suggest that much of the disruptivepotential of this genre is derived from its integration of ‘punk’ as a discourseor practice of resistance to social ‘norms’. I focus on Candas Jane Dorsey’sshort story ‘(Learning About) Machine Sex’ and Neal Stephenson’s novelSnow Crash. I have deliberately chosen texts whose relationship with firstwavecyberpunk is complicated either by an explicitly feminist standpoint(Dorsey) or a generational distance (Stephenson), in order to assess whetherthese authors avoid or succumb to the same critiques levelled at earlycyberpunk about gender representation. I am concerned with who and whatthese texts are resisting, and how this resistance is performed. This line ofenquiry, however, also demands a closer examination of the positiveconnotations attached to ‘resistance’ in cyberpunk, and, consequently, to askwhose interests are not represented. To do this, I use the disruptiveassociations of ‘punk’ as a tool, looking not only at particular themes ofresistance within the text, but also how the authors’ innovative stylisticmanoeuvres resist genre conventions.
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- Harrison, Katherine, 1977-
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Online negotiations of infertility : knowledge production in (in)fertility blogs
- 2014
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Ingår i: Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. - : Sage Publications. - 1354-8565 .- 1748-7382. ; 20:3, s. 337-351
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Although now used for a wide range of functions such as education, marketing and political commentary, blogs were originally a space for narrating personal life stories and have much in common with autobiography and diary genres. This article examines (in)fertility blogs written by women trying to conceive, arguing that blogging helps women to renegotiate their experiences of femininity when motherhood is denied or difficult. To do this, I focus on blogs as a space for knowledge production, creating a new paradigm for fertility information which challenges both the doctor/patient power dynamic and traditional discourses concerning fertility. I show how bloggers use their blogs to ‘make sense’ of their (in)fertility experiences by looking at the distinctive content, style and format of their blogs. Finally, the knowledge produced in the blogs is problematized by ‘situating’ them within a broader sociohistorical framework.
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- Hearn, Jeff, 1947-, et al.
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Hegemony, transpatriarchies, ICTs and virtualization
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Ingår i: Rethinking transnational men. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138952805 ; , s. 91-109
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 1991 in a Cambridge University laboratory two computer scientists, Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky, wanted to keep their eyes on the availability of fresh coffee while they were working. Accordingly, they fixed a recycled video camera to an old computer and then a video frame-grabber on top of the coffee machine placed outside their working environment, called the “Trojan Room”. In the name of having more “control” over the coffee, they posted the very first real-time cybersurveillance recording process on the Internet: 1 they could watch it from other places. This, one of many examples of the reach of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and virtualization, has led into many kinds of transnational cybersurveillance experiences that have since grabbed the attention of many Internet surfers (Campanella 2002). Transnationalizations take many forms and have many implications for intersectional gender relations, for men and masculinities, for hegemony. They comprise acutely contradictory processes, with multiple forms of difference, presence, and absence for men, and women, in power and men, and women, who are dispossessed materially or in terms of aspects of citizenship. Different transnationalizations problematize taken-for-granted national, organizational, and local contexts; gender relations; and men and masculinities in many ways. This chapter builds on critical debates on men, masculinities, hegemony, and patriarchy in relation to intersectionalities and transnationalizations. It uses the concept of transnational patriarchies, or transpatriarchies for short, to speak of the structural tendency and individualized …
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