Women's Voices in Digital Media: The Sonic Screen from Film to Memes (O'Meara Jennifer)(Paperback)

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
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