Women's voices in digital media: the sonic screen from film to memes

In today's digital era, women's voices are heard everywhere-from smart home devices to social media platforms, virtual reality, podcasts, and even memes-but these new forms of communication are often accompanied by dated gender politics. In Women's Voices in Digital Media, Jennifer O&...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Meara, Jennifer ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin University of Texas Press 2022
Edition:First edition
Series:Louann Atkins temple women & culture series
Subjects:
Online Access:Volltext
Summary:In today's digital era, women's voices are heard everywhere-from smart home devices to social media platforms, virtual reality, podcasts, and even memes-but these new forms of communication are often accompanied by dated gender politics. In Women's Voices in Digital Media, Jennifer O'Meara dives into new and well-established media formats to show how contemporary screen media and cultural practices police and fetishize women's voices, but also provide exciting new ways to amplify and empower them. As she travels through the digital world, O'Meara discovers newly acknowledged-or newly erased-female voice actors from classic films on YouTube, meets the AI and digital avatars in Her and The Congress, and hears women's voices being disembodied in new ways via podcasts and VR voice-overs. She engages with dialogue that is spreading with only the memory of a voice, looking at how popular media like Clueless and The Simpsons have been mined for feminist memes, and encounters vocal ventriloquism on RuPaul's Drag Race that queers and valorizes the female voice. Through these detailed case studies, O'Meara argues that the digital proliferation of screens alters the reception of sounds as much as that of images, with substantial implications for women's voices
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (272 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781477324455
DOI:10.7560/324431

There is no print copy available.

Interlibrary loan Place Request Caution: Not in THWS collection! Get full text