[Air-l] Postcolonial Feminists meet Internet Studies - AOIR preconvention

[Radhika Gajjala]

    * All who register will get a chance to engage and participate and 
workshop their ideas and research contexts - discussions are intended to be 
helpful to participants in clarifying the connection between Postcolonial 
Theory and Internet Studies.
    * [What counts and Postcolonial Studies - What counts as Internet 
Studies? - What counts as doing something at the intersection of both?]
    * If you have already registered please email me 
(radhika at cyberdiva.org) asap - so I can include your name, affiliation and 
topic (or point of interest/engagement in relation to this precon), and if 
you have one, a 100 word abstract, so we can hand these out to all 
participants in the handout at the precon and send you an email on the 
details of the plan for the afternoon.
    * Postcolonial Feminists Meet Internet Studies (afternoon, Wednesday, 
October 15)
    * Organizer: Radhika Gajjala, Associate Professor, Department of 
Interpersonal Communication Bowling Green State Univerisity

This preconvention will be a space where we will assert the basic 
problematics and struggles involved in bringing together the two fields 
postcolonial feminisms" and "internet studies". This is as much about 
making postcolonial theory take  Internet (and associated 
"virtuality")studies seriously as it is about voicing postcolonial feminist 
perspectives on Internet studies.

Postcolonial  issues - at the intersection of race, gender, class, caste, 
geography and economics - in relation to Internet studies often tend to get 
subsumed (or  side-tracked) under liberal cyberfeminist discourses 
while  only obliquely addressed in "intercultural/multicultural" approaches 
. Concepts of collaborative or cross-disciplinary work alone are not 
sufficient to address the issues of unequal power that arise at the 
intersection of postcolonial theory and Internet studies. Topics covered 
include digital diasporas and religion, globalization and third-world 
contexts, migrant labor and the production of technologies, race, class and 
gender and so on.

Main Speakers/Respondents include: Jillana Enteen, Theresa Senft, Mary 
Keller, Charles Ess, Michel Minou and Radhika Gajjala



for more information on registering for this etc - see 
http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/conference.phtml#rad



http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik