Table of Contents
Editor’s introduction: Technofeminism:
A Perspective on Science and Technology Studies . 3
Technical Difficulties:
Technofeminist Scholarship in
Communication Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. Introduction: A History of Feminist Technology . 4
2. Data Feminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A. The nature of AI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
B. AI / bias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
C. AI / bots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
D. Media representation / AI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3. Design Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A. Design justice / porn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. Arts and Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A. Activism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. Digital Methods Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6. Privacy / Surveillance / Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Briefly Noted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Recommended Citation
Crandall, Heather M. and Cunningham, Carolyn M.
(2025)
"Technical Difficulties: Technofeminist Scholarship in Communication Studies,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 44:
No.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol44/iss3/1