User:Eleanorg/thesisOutline

Summary

I will use my thesis to tackle questions about authorship/attribution in (collaborative) networked publishing, by using emerging feminist theories of consent and collaborative agency.

Outline

• Networked publishing forms such as aggregation and user curation disrupt the conventional notion of discreet authors who control and/or endorse whole publications. Texts are fragmented or "atomized" (Ludovico 2012), and their origins and authorship become unclear as they are circulated online.
• This uncertainty about who endorses or authors a particular fragment of text raises bigger questions about individual agency in relation to others.
• When we collaborate (in the broadest sense), where is our own agency?
• I will investigate feminist theories of consent to help answer this question. Current feminist debates are useful because they are in the process of a shift from a liberal emphasis on autonomous subjects ("Yes means yes/No Means No") to grappling with the reality of consent as a process of collaborative authoring, where motivations and desires are not fixed beforehand.
• I will relate this theoretical debate to my own work as a facilitator of text-based dialogue.

The conceptual problems, social context and texts used will continue from the outline begun in my Graduation proposal.

Bibliography

Publishing

• Ludovico, Alessandro (2012) Post Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing since 1894 (Eindhoven: Onopatopee).
• Garsiel, Tali (2011) How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers [online]. Accessed 19 October 2012 at http://taligarsiel.com/Projects/howbrowserswork1.htm.
• IMC London (2012) Time to move on: IMC London signing off [online]. Accessed 13 October 2012 at http://london.indymedia.org/articles/13128
• Pariser, E. (2011) The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think (London: Penguin).
• Upworthy (2012) Could This Be The Most Upworthy Site In The History Of The Internet? [online]. Available at: http://www.upworthy.com/could-this-be-the-most-upworthy-site-in-the-history-of-the-internet (Accessed 1 December 2012).

Consent

• Butler, J. (2004) 'Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy' in Undoing Gender (London: Routledge).
• Easton, D. & Liszt, C. A. (1997) The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (Oregon: Greenery Press).
• Home Office (2006) If You Don't Get a 'Yes' Before Sex, Who'll Be Your Next Sleeping Partner? [campaign] PDF available at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/consent-campaign/Prison.pdf?view=... (Accessed 1 December 2012).
• Johnston, J. (2010) 'A History of Consent in Western Thought', in: Miller, G. & Wertheimer, A. (eds.)(2010) The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• Kleinig, J. (2010) 'The Nature of Consent', in: Miller, G. & Wertheimer, A. (eds.)(2010) The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• Kramer Bussel, R. (2008) 'Beyond Yes or No: Consent as Sexual Process', in Freidman, J. & Valenti, J. (eds) Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (California: Seal Press).
• Miller, G. & Wertheimer, A. (eds.)(2010) The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• Millar, Thomas M. (2008) 'Towards a Performance Model of Sex', in Freidman, J. & Valenti, J. (eds) Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape (California: Seal Press).
• Rape Crisis Scotland (2008) This Is Not an Invitiation to Rape Me [campaign]. Available at: www.thisisnotaninvitationtorapeme.co.uk (Accessed 1 December 2012).

(2010) Not Ever [campaign]. Available at: http://www.notever.co.uk (Accessed 1 December 2012).

(2011) Pie Chart Postcard [campaign]. Available at: www.rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/workspace/uploads/files/chart.pdf (Accessed 1 December 2012).

• Reclaim The Night Oxford (2011) Reclaim The Night [online]. Available at: http://oxfordfeminist.ox4.org/rtn (Accessed 1 December 2012).
• Schwyzer, H. (2008) The Opposite of Rape is Not Consent; the Opposite of Rape is Enthusiasm [online]. Available at: http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/2008/06/15/the-opposite-of-rape-is-not-consent-the-opposite-of-rape-is-enthusiasm-a-revised-and-expanded-post/ (Accessed 1 December 2012).
• Sokolov, D & Jools (2010) 'Two Sex Radicals Consider Kink' in Play!Fight!: Thoughts, Fantasies and Stories on Kinky Sex and Politics (Oxford: Radical X).
• Wertheimer, Alan (2003) Consent to Sexual Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Consensus

• Epstein, M. (1996) 'Bare Attention', in: Thoughts Without A Thinker (New York: Basic Books).
• Hardt, M. & Negri, A. (2004) Multitude: war and democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: Penguin).
• Seeds for Change (2012a) Consensus Decision Making [online]. Available at: http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/consensus (Accessed 1 December 2012).

(2012b) Facilitating Meetings: A Short Guide [online]. Available at: http://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/free/shortfacilitation#skills (Accessed 1 December 2012).