Short thesis
Description
Of Bees and Bytes is a science fiction short story that takes two protagonists on a road-trip through the feminist internet in the year 2025. In this close-future scenario, the big internet players have been overthrown and new, feminist infrastructures are rising. On their trip, the two protagonists drive through post-apocalyptical cyber-landscapes. They visit a meme-factory, a virtual bazaar and a bodyhacking-spa and discover already existing utopian feminist places. The short story combines feminist theories, methods of narration and fiction, as well as digital ethnographies. Of Bees and Bytes is published as part of the Next Generation Internet - Engineroom project by Nesta in March 2019. It aims to spark ideas and discussions around how to re-imagine an open and diverse internet.