The congress

The congress is the culmination of a four-year project –ARES Analyzing Antifeminist Resistances— designed to detect discursive antifeminism, envision fairer futures in digital media content and behavior, and ultimately imagine a better world.

In this congress, we explore the following questions: What power asymmetries are hidden in digital technology? What can be learned from women’s stories in technology? What hinders or enables empowering women through technology? What is the relationship between datafication and gender? What new critical interpretations of the datafication process are emerging? How do platforms shape discourses or determine decisions that affect women? What new narratives can inspire the rise of fairer technological systems and algorithms? What possibilities can digital technology offer for equality? What digital practices challenge gender discrimination and antifeminist narratives?