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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).