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 voice, looking at how popular media like Clueless
and The Simpsons have been mined for feminist memes, and encounters
vocal ventriloquism on RuPaul's Drag Race that queers and valorizes
the female voice. Through these detailed case studies, O'Meara
argues that the digital proliferation of screens alters the
reception of sounds as much as that of images, with substantial
implications for women's voices.
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