Guertin is known for critical writing related to cyberfeminism, born-digital arts, participatory cultures, theoretical work in emergent media arts and literatures, global digital culture, information aesthetics, hacktivism, tactical media, and the social practices surrounding technology.
While one hopes that we are now decidedly post-“postfeminism,” the idea of networked feminism as crossing (and erasing) boundaries.
"[5] Kareem Metula reviews Guertin's From Cyborgs to Hacktivists: Postfeminist Disobedience and Virtual Communities, (EBR, 2005) stating, "Guertin does present a cogent argument on the validity of cyberfeminism as one facet of postfeminism by presenting several cyberfeminist collectives"[6] In Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia, Jaishree Odin writes, "Carolyn Guertin interprets Califia 's multi-layered narrative structure as an "engine of forgetfulness" which, because the reader's response is primarily on the emotional and sensory level, can be read using the model of Alzheimer's disease.
Guertin attributes this response to information overload and the complexity of the narrative, which the reader finds difficult to retain in the form of any coherent trajectory.
[8] As does Lisa Joyce in the article Introduction: Waves,[9] and Katherine Hayles in Cyber|literature and Multicourses: Rescuing Electronic Literature from Infanticide.