Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader

In Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader Keilty and Dean put the field of Information Studies into critical conversation with studies of gender sexuality race and technology. In classic and original essays renowned scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of information and technology philosophies and practices. Conceiving of information in a broad sense the contributors reevaluate conventional methods and topics within Information Studies to examine encounters with information phenomena and technology that do not lend themselves easily to the scientific and behaviorist modes of description that have long dominated the field. A Foreword Introduction and Afterword provide helpful context to the reader's 27 essays arranged around topics that include information as gendered labor cyborgs and cyberfeminism online environments information organization information extraction and flow archives and performance.