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

[radhika_gajjala]

I am very very sorry I mispelled Michel Menou's name (again?)!

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At 8:12 AM -0400 10/3/03, Radhika Gajjala wrote:
>    * 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
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>for more information on registering for this etc - see 
>http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/conference.phtml#rad
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>http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik
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