The publication looks at the intersections that now exist between gender studies and the objects of

digital media culturememes, apps, posts. Speculative experiments are carried out to test out entry

points to the contemporary constellations of digital media culture and gender theory approaches

using individual objects. Feeling and affect play a key role here: having our emotions appealed

to by artistic and media objects changes our critical thinking about them. The cartography of

contemporary digital media culture thus constitutes a situated method.



Julia Bee is Professor of Media Aesthetics at the University of Siegen. Irina Gradinari is Junior

Professor of Gender Studies at FernUniversität in Hagen. Katrin Köppert is Junior Professor of Art

History/Popular Cultures at the HGB Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.