Abstract
Eckert and Steiner address how feminist media and communication research leads to interventions. Feminist teaching/pedagogy and feminist research are forms of political action, returning practical knowledge to the community; feminist media and communication research often leads to policy change. Focusing on interventions that go beyond the ideational and the academy, Eckert and Steiner evaluate their own after-school program to help middle and high school girls learn online research and design skills that can be applied to knowledge sites such as Wikipedia. Wikid GRRLS also serves as a research project and a learning/mentoring opportunity for its undergraduate and graduate assistants. Eckert and Steiner caution that pre-tenure feminist scholars must think hard about how to launch community service projects when working to satisfy the tenure system’s demands.
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Fonow and Cook (1991) add that feminist research also involves critically reflecting on the research process and the researcher’s position, considering the consequences of the research process, and using situations at hand.
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This very problem urges some archival work about feminist interventions to preserve and make concrete and visible a collective sense of scholars’ feminist interventions and to show just how dangerous—or safe—it is. Ultimately such a project could involve categorization and evaluation (different kinds of projects, different kinds of feminism) but presumably at this point merely recovering and recording the data would constitute an “intervention.”
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Hollaback! International Street Harassment Survey Project. Available at: http://www.ihollaback.org/cornell-international-survey-on-street-harassment/#cr.
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Eckert, S., Steiner, L. (2018). Teaching Girls Online Skills for Knowledge Projects: A Research-Based Feminist Intervention. In: Harp, D., Loke, J., Bachmann, I. (eds) Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research. Comparative Feminist Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90838-0_15
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