[Air-L] Gender and Online Activism

[jose marichal]

Dear Internet researchers,

Could any of you point me to articles that look at the role of gender in
on-line activism, particularly the use of social media in activism?   My
own efforts at compiling a lit review on this subject has produced some
work, but it would be helpful if I could identify some seminar work in the
field.

I'd be happy to compile what I receive for those that are interested.

Warm regards,
Jose Marichal
California Lutheran University




On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Jean Burgess <je.burgess at qut.edu.au> wrote:

>
> CFP—Issue 24 Fibreculture Journal: Entanglements: activism and technology
>
> http://fibreculturejournal.org/cfp-entanglements/
>
> Please note that for this issue, initial submissions should be abstracts
> only.
>
> Issue Editors: Pip Shea, Tanya Notley and Jean Burgess
>
> Abstract deadline: August 20 2014 (no late abstracts will be accepted)
> Article deadline: November 3 2014
> Publication aimed for: February 2015
>
> all contributors and editors must read the guidelines at:
> http://fibreculturejournal.org/policy-and-style/
> before working with the Fibreculture Journal
>
> Email correspondence for this issue: p.shea at qub.ac.uk<mailto:
> p.shea at qub.ac.uk>
>
> This themed issue explores the entanglements that arise due to frictions
> between the philosophies embedded within technologies and the philosophies
> embedded within activism. Straightforward solutions are rarely on offer as
> the bringing together of different philosophies requires the negotiation of
> acceptance, compromise, or submission (Tsing 2004). This friction can be
> disruptive, productive, or both, and it may contribute discord or harmony.
>
> In this special issue, we seek submissions that respond to the idea that
> frictions between technologies and activists may ultimately enhance the
> ability of activists to take more control of their projects, create new
> ethical spaces and subvert technologies, just as it may also result in
> tension, conflict and hostility.
>
> By dwelling in between and within these frictions and entanglements –
> through strategic and tactical media discourses as well as the very concept
> of an activist politics within technology – this special issue will
> elucidate the context-specific nature, constraints and possibilities of the
> digital environments that are co-habited by activists from proximate fields
> including social movements, human rights, ecological and green movements,
> international development, community arts and cultural development.
>
> Past issues of the Fibreculture Journal have examined activist
> philosophies from angles such as social justice and networked
> organisational forms, communication rights and net neutrality debates, and
> the push back against precarious new media labour. Our issue extends this
> work by revealing the conflicting debates that surround activist
> philosophies of technology.
>
> Submissions are sought that engage specifically with the ethics,
> rationales and methods adopted by activists to justify selecting, building,
> using, promoting or rejecting specific technologies. We also encourage work
> that considers the ways in which these negotiations speak to broader
> mythologies and tensions embedded within digital culture – between openness
> and control; political consistency and popular appeal; appropriateness,
> usability and availability.
>
> We invite responses to these provocations from activists, practitioners
> and academics. Critiques, case studies, and multimedia proposals will be
> considered for inclusion. Submissions should explore both constraints and
> possibilities caused by activism and its digital technology entanglements
> through the following themes:
>
> Alternative technology versus appropriate technology
> Pragmatism and technology choice
> The philosophies and practices of hacking technologies
> Activist cultures and the proprietary web
> Digital privacy and security breaches and errors
> Uncovering and exposing technology vulnerabilities
> Technology and e-waste
> The philosophies of long/short term impact
> Authenticity and evidence
>
> Initial submissions should comprise 300 word abstracts and 60 word
> biographies, emailed to p.shea at qub.ac.uk<mailto:p.shea at qub.ac.uk> and
> t.notley at uws.edu.au<mailto:t.notley at uws.edu.au>
>
> References:
>
> Tsing, A. 2005 Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton:
> Princeton University Press.
>
> The Fibreculture Journal (http://fibreculturejournal.org/) is a peer
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> interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and
> communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures
> and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and
> the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability.
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josé marichal, ph.d. | professor of political science
<http://about.me/marichal>
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