Jouer à un jeu de ficelle spéculatif

prendre en compte les potentialités féministes de Twine

Auteurs-es

Mots-clés :

Twine, fabulation spéculative, féminisme, collaboration, pratique créative, récits non linéaires

Résumé

Inspirées par les possibilités féministes offertes par les technologies numériques, tout en reconnaissant leurs limites, les auteures examinent le processus collaboratif de création d’ateliers sur Twine pour trois conférences, soit celles de l’International Communications Association, de l’Association canadienne de communication et de l’Association pour l’ouverture/les technologies en éducation, dans la société et pour l’avancement des savoirs. Les ateliers ont mobilisé Twine comme outil interactif permettant d’aborder de manière critique les récits de l’Empire à travers une expression féministe, non linéaire, non normative et créative, tout en explorant la manière dont l’adoption de l’éthique de Twine pourrait favoriser une idéation analogique collaborative. Dans Twine, nous voyons des façons de s’écarter des normalisations libertariennes de l’individualisme et proposons plutôt de « jouer à un jeu de ficelle spéculatif » en suivant l’appel de Donna Haraway à réfléchir collectivement, à réimaginer et à coexpérimenter des formes émergentes d’expression numérique afin de façonner d’autres modes de pensée et de futures possibilités. En nous appuyant sur nos domaines d’expertise respectifs (cultures numériques; communications; histoire; études féminines, féministes et sur le genre; études environnementales; écriture et rhétorique; études des jeux), nous examinons les possibilités et les limites de Twine et réfléchissons au processus d’établissement d’une collaboration féministe. Nous mettons l’accent sur les processus et les relations plutôt que de nous concentrer uniquement sur les résultats, comme une intervention féministe délibérée contre les approches néolibérales axées sur les résultats en recherche. Nous suggérons aussi qu’un aspect de la collaboration féministe consiste à être ouvert à un travail commun non linéaire, continu et itératif.

Biographies de l'auteur-e

  • Anna Lee-Popham, University of Guelph

    Anna Lee-Popham is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. Her poetry collection, Empires of the Everyday (McClelland & Stewart), was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her writing was first runner-up in PRISM international’s Pacific Poetry Prize, shortlisted for The Fiddlehead Creative Nonfiction Contest and Room's Poetry Contest, longlisted for CBC's nonfiction prize, and published in Arc, Brick, Canthius, Riddle Fence, Autostraddle, Lingue e Linguaggi, and others. Anna holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.

  • Sarah York-Bertram, York University, York University

    Sarah York-Bertram is a graduate of the Gender, Feminist, and Women’s Studies doctoral program at York University and is currently the Riley Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Winnipeg in the History Department. In 2022, she co-organized the Feminist Digital Methods Events and Conference, which later became a Research Cluster,  at the Centre for Feminist Research. She is co-editor of the forthcoming Feminist Digital Methods book with Routledge Press.

  • Aparajita Bhandari, University of Waterloo

    Aparajita Bhandari is an assistant professor whose work sits at the nexus of critical internet studies, feminist media studies and cultural theory engaging in critical examinations of social media platforms with a focus on understanding instantiations of everyday or mundane online experiences as potential sites of resistance against hegemonic power.

  • Laurence Butet-Roch, York University, York University

    Laurence Butet-Roch is an environmental media scholar, photographer, and writer. Her work questions the entanglements of the politics of visibility, representational justice, and extractivism through both academic research, and artistic and curatorial endeavours. Her doctoral project was awarded a Governor General Gold Medal and excerpts have appeared in RACAR, Visual Studies, Journal of Environmental Media, Facts & Frictions, as well as edited volumes.

  • Sarah Choukah, Université de l'Ontario français

    Sarah Choukah is a transmedia artist and researcher, and assistant professor in digital communications and media studies at the Université de l'Ontario français in Toronto. Her research combines digital technologies with transdisciplinary practices across bioart, creative computing, interspecies collaboration, and feminist and posthuman approaches. She has a longstanding relationship with Physarum polycephalum, a slime mold that challenges anthropocentric notions of intelligence and invites alternative modes of decentered, more-than-human sensing and thinking. Her current work explores hybrid, modular, bioelectronic art gardens as experimental spaces, as well as modes of belonging and collective action at the margins of big tech, with a particular concern for minority francophone communities navigating predominantly anglophone digital systems.

  • Alison Harvey, Glendon College, York University, Glendon College, York University

    Alison Harvey is Associate Professor of Communications and the Director of the Institute for Research on Digital Literacies at York University. Her research and teaching focuses on issues of inclusivity and accessibility in digital culture, with an emphasis on gender and labour in digital games. She is the author of Gender, Age, and Digital Games in the Domestic Context (2015, Routledge) and Feminist Media Studies (2019, Polity). Her work has also appeared in a range of interdisciplinary journals, including most recently in Feminist Media Studies, Diversity & Inclusion Research, Global Media & China, and New Media & Society. She served as the president of the Canadian Game Studies Association from 2023-2025 and is acting as a co-chair of the 2026 meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

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2026-01-22

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