We recommend: Hannah Schmedes “–1.153 Characters. Towards A Queerfeminist Infrastructural Critique of Wikipedia”
“–1.153 Characters. Towards A Queerfeminist Infrastructural Critique of Wikipedia”
Hannah Schmedes (Ruhr University Bochum)
In June 2024, our SFB member Hannah Schmedes (B09) published an article worth reading in the journal FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur 74 (2024) entitled “-1.153 Characters. Towards A Queerfeminist Infrastructural Critique of Wikipedia”, in which she explores the concealed biases, power dynamics, and inequalities within Wikipedia’s infrastructural framework.
Hannah Schmedes is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Media Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum. She is a researcher in the project “B09 – Bicycle Media. Cooperative Media of Mobility” in the DFG-funded CRC 1187 “Media of Cooperation”.
FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur analyzes visual representations and discourses in their social and gender-political significance. FKW thus combines art and cultural theory, image and media studies, gender-specific, political and methodological issues to create a critical cultural history of the visual. Questions about constructions in the field of visual culture, about mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, symptomatic subject designs and unreflected objectifications are at the forefront of the critical interest in representation. From a perspective that understands knowledge and understanding as dynamic processes that are always changing, FKW sees itself as a platform for constructive debate and discussion that aims to provide food for thought and critically accompany ways of rethinking.