Feminist Cyberspaces

Author : Jenny Wolmark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122749794

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Cybersexualities by Jenny Wolmark Pdf

Cyberspace, the cyborg and cyberpunk have given feminists new imaginative possibilities for thinking about embodiment and identity in relation to technology. This is the first anthology of the key essays on these potent metaphors. Divided into three sections (Technology, Embodiment and Cyberspace; Cybersubjects: Cyborgs and Cyberpunks; Cyborg Futures), the book addresses different aspects of the human-technology interface. The extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory and indicates the context for the specific essays. This is an invaluable guide for students studying any aspects of contemporary theory and culture.* Brings together in a unique collection the work of key authors in feminist and cyber theory* Demonstrates the wide range of contemporary critical work* Challenges constructions of gender, race and class* An extensive introduction surveys the ways cyborg and cyberspace metaphors have been used in relation to current critical theory* Brief section introductions indicate the context for the specific essays

Author : Sharon Collingwood,Alvina E. Quintana,Caroline J. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443836814

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Feminist Cyberspaces by Sharon Collingwood,Alvina E. Quintana,Caroline J. Smith Pdf

Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition is a collection of essays exploring the ways in which new media technologies are being used in the feminist “classroom.” The collection has been structured to reflect the multifaceted nature of education today. Learning takes place on a personal level through independent study and social media; it takes place at a local level in our classrooms and lecture halls, but it is also increasingly taking place on a global scale as new technologies foster international collaboration between individuals and organizations. In addition, there is a growing acceptance of learning in the collaborative 3D classrooms of virtual worlds. These educational spaces are not mutually exclusive, as the contributions to this volume make clear. The anthology explores how technology is being used in antiviolence teaching, art education, HIV and AIDS education, and other specialized topics, but it also gives many examples of innovations in teaching introductory courses. The technology used ranges from the implementation of course management systems for large university classes to the use of digital storytelling in small groups outside the university. It also explores technology for removing barriers to people with disabilities in both traditional and online classrooms. The collection is not a “how to” book, but it does use practical experience as a basis for feminist theorizing of the classroom. All of the essays look at the use of new technology in the light of feminist pedagogy, seeking new ways to foster provocative, creative and non-hierarchical learning that transcends the physical boundaries of the university.

Author : Susan Hawthorne,Renate Klein
Publisher : Spinifex Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 187555968X

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Cyberfeminism by Susan Hawthorne,Renate Klein Pdf

An international anthology by feminists working in the field of electronic publishing, electronic activism, electronic data delivery, multimedia production, virtual reality creation, developing programs or products electronically, as well as those developing critiques of electronic culture. This collection explores what the possibilities are for feminists and for feminism. It also grapples with the pitfalls of the medium. The book, however, does not assume that the technology in itself is negative, but rather how it is used is open to critique. This leaves open the possibility of feminists having an impact on the way the technologies develop. The book includes connecting HTML with poetry, developing resources for Women's Studies and libraries, on-line, CD-ROM and VRML developments. The book has markets across trade and educational sectors and could be used at secondary and tertiary levels.

Author : Khun Eng Kuah
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789053567517

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Chinese Women and the Cyberspace by Khun Eng Kuah Pdf

This volume examines how Chinese women negotiate the Internet as a research tool and a strategy for the acquisition of information, as well as for social networking purposes. Offering insight into the complicated creation of a female Chinese cybercommunity, Chinese Women and the Cyberspace discusses the impact of increasingly available Internet technology on the life and lifestyle of Chinese women—examining larger issues of how women become both masters of their electronic domain and the objects of exploitation in a faceless online world.

Author : Susanna Paasonen
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820476072

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Figures of Fantasy by Susanna Paasonen Pdf

Figures of Fantasy explores the popularization of the idea of the Internet as a «cyberspace» and considers the implications this has for discussions of gender and identity. The book analyzes the standard figures used to conceptualize and explain technology and gender, and traces the ways in which these concepts have served to create the figure of the Internet as a cyberspace - a manner of thinking that has come to dominate Internet research internationally, making visible its historicity, limitations, and implications. Figures of Fantasy offers an innovative theoretical approach to Internet research, and provides a highly original, systematic critique of the canonical works in the field.

Author : Mary Flanagan,Austin Booth
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262561506

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Reload by Mary Flanagan,Austin Booth Pdf

An anthology of feminist cyberfiction and theoretical and critical writings on gender and technoculture. Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. Reload offers an alternative picture of cyberspace as a complex and contradictory place where there is oppression as well as liberation. It shows how cyberpunk's revolutionary claims conceal its ultimate conservatism on matters of class, gender, and race. The cyberfeminists writing here view cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures. The book brings together women's cyberfiction—fiction that explores the relationship between people and virtual technologies—and feminist theoretical and critical investigations of gender and technoculture. From a variety of viewpoints, the writers consider the effects of rapid and profound technological change on culture, in particular both the revolutionary and reactionary effects of cyberculture on women's lives. They also explore the feminist implications of the cyborg, a human-machine hybrid. The writers challenge the conceptual and institutional rifts between high and low culture, which are embedded in the texts and artifacts of cyberculture.

Author : Nina Lykke,Rosi Braidotti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037500504

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Monsters, Goddesses and Cyborgs by Nina Lykke,Rosi Braidotti Pdf

It is divided into four sections covering science as a whole, the new technologies of the postmodern era, bio-medical discourses, and nature. A distinguished cast of contributors explores the central feminist concerns in each arena, through the central metaphors of monster, mother goddess and cyborg. They look at the consequences of gynogenesis, postmodern eco-buddhism in heathcare, sexual violence in cyberspace, the postmodernization of menopause, the dolphin as androgyne and feminist environmentalism.

Author : Claudia Reiche,Verena Kuni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015059318173

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Cyberfeminism. Next Protocols by Claudia Reiche,Verena Kuni Pdf

In the beginning cyberFeminism. next protocols was a call posted on mailing lists by the old boys network, the first international cyberfeminist alliance. Now cyberFeminism. next protocols is a book that presents an introduction as well as an outlook for the large network of contemporary cyberfeminism. Protocols are both scientific records of observations and coded commands for digital and human procedures of communication. next protocols reaches boldly into the utopian gap between the now and its possible futures. If gender is not obsolete, there is a stake in reformulating it under conditions ruled by the dominance of the digital medium and test its capacities to subvert cultural practices. cyberFeminism carries the Fem in its center - Fem which hints politically at gender and the female sex, yet exceeds, enjoys, and remodels this relation. With approaches coming from art, theory and activism, cyberFeminism. next protocols invents and documents a cyberFeminism which is dedicated to the wilderness of precise critique and experimental thinking. Book jacket.

Author : Wendy Harcourt
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1856495728

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Women@Internet by Wendy Harcourt Pdf

This is a major analysis of the emerging cultural characteristics of women's activities on the internet across the globe. It brings together anthropologists, communications experts, development workers and media analysts and women's movement activists to ask: are women caught in the net or weaving it themselves? The book maps both the social, economic and political biases in which the culture of cyberspace is embedded as well its revolutionary potential, explores women's knowledge of and access to the Internet across the world, and puts forward concrete proposals for increasing women's engagement with the new communication technologies.

Author : Zillah Eisenstein
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814722060

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Global Obscenities by Zillah Eisenstein Pdf

The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to America's declining interest in politics and its obsession with money, finance, and the markets. Bill Gates builds a $50 million mansion while food pantries and homeless shelters overflow with the desperate. The explosive expansion of media and cyber conglomerates creates dreamworlds while the ecology of our actual world is jeopardized. Public space and public democracy withers, as is evidenced by the fact that the closest facsimile of a town square is the local Barnes and Noble. New geographies of power are defined by sex scandals, plant closings, cyberporn, sweatshop labor, information webs, and stock market schizophrenia. Global capitalism and its cyberrelations use this chaos to construct modern forms of sexual and racial exploitation. Into this world steps Zillah Eisenstein, with a book of profound despair and yet also great hope, informed by her trademark sharp analysis and her unrelenting passion for a more humane world. Exposing the purported democratic effect of new media for the global mirage it is, Eisenstein shows how transnational capital and its patriarchal obsessions threaten us all, while at the same time creating possibilities for a new democratic society.

Author : Ann Travers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317733218

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Writing the Public in Cyberspace by Ann Travers Pdf

Popular claims that new information technology will expand democratic and public spaces are problematic given the exclusive history of the public and the restriction of access to computer technology to elites. This book investigates patterns of behavior in a cybercommunity consisting of Americans and Canadians, and discusses the ways in which these so-called public spaces are likely to reshape the boundaries between social insiders and outsiders rather than eliminate them. Traverse analyses the ways in which the norms for participation within cyberspaces often play a role in undermining public tendencies, but notes that new information technologies provide educators, feminists, and other social groups concerned with broadening the inclusive nature of public spaces with unique opportunities. The book's final section explores current efforts by feminists on-line to expand public access for women and suggests further strategies for developing more genuinely inclusive public spaces. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oregon,1996; revised with new introduction, bibliography, and index)

Author : Agnes M. Brazal,K. Abraham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137395863

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Feminist Cyberethics in Asia by Agnes M. Brazal,K. Abraham Pdf

This anthology hopes to contribute, in particular, to the analysis of the mutually constitutive interaction of the use of cyberspace and Asian cultures, with particular attention to ethical, feminist, and religious perspectives especially within Catholic Christianity.

Author : Kristine Blair,Pamela Takayoshi
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106015380352

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Feminist Cyberscapes by Kristine Blair,Pamela Takayoshi Pdf

This collection helps to historicize not only the development of computers and composition as a field but also the impact of technology on the professional lives of women teachers and scholars."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ann Travers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0815332653

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Writing the Public in Cyberspace by Ann Travers Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Joan Nordquist
Publisher : Reference & Research Services
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021830182

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Women and Cyberspace by Joan Nordquist Pdf