[Air-l] blogging postcolonial feminists

[Radhika Gajjala]

I have just been informed that there will be no registration fee for the 
precon workshop on Postcolonial Feminists Meet Internet Studies - please 
pass the word around far and wide:)

thanks,
r


At 09:31 AM 10/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>{sorry for the crosspost}
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>Okay - here's the blogspace -
>
>http://cyberdiva.typepad.com/postcolonialaoir/
>
>Anyone wishing to participate virtually, email me with
>
>1] Why do you want to participate - your thoughts and experience at this 
>intersection...
>
>2] Your email address, Name, affiliation and so on
>
>Posting of abstracts from the Precon that happens on October 15 at Toronto 
>still depends on whether participants there give me permission to do so.
>
>thanks,
>r
>
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>
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>At 09:33 PM 10/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>If I get permission from participants, I will put them up on my weblogs 
>>(just starting them) - anyone wishing to contribute virtually is also 
>>free to do so via the weblogs (for the you will have to email me and 
>>explain who you are and what your RL location/affiliation is if you wish 
>>to post to them, so I can give you an access code).
>>
>>http://www.cyberdiva.org/cyberdiv/october/
>>
>>thanks,
>>r
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>* 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 University
>>>
>>>
>>>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 Menou
>>>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
>>
>>_____________________________________________________
>>Postcolonial Feminists Meet Internet Studies Blogpace 
>>http://cyberdiva.typepad.com/postcolonialaoir/
>>Cultures of Tech Blogspace (this will eventually have info on the 
>>Cultures of Tech Virtual Seminar series) 
>>http://cyberdiva.typepad.com/cultures_of_tech/
>>AOIR Panel Studying the Internet via the Internet: Electronic 
>>Collaboration blogs
>>http://cyberdiva.typepad.com/aoirbgnu/
>>____________________________________________
>>http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik
>>personal weblogs: http://www.cyberdiva.org/cyberdiv/october/
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