[Air-L] Gender and Online Activism

Tue Jun 24 17:03:42 PDT 2014

These are two articles I have co-authored that analyze gender and online activism:
“Political
Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist Campaigns in Morocco
and Iran” Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam in Mobilization: An International Journal 15 (3): 267-288, September
2010.

----------------------------Translated into Persian and published in Iranian
Feminist School: http://www.iranianfeminschool.info/spip.php?article6574 

“Iran’s Reformist and
Activists: Internet Exploiters” coauthored with Babak Rahimi in Middle East Policy Journal, Volume XV,
Spring 2008, Number 1, pp. 46-59

Reprinted in Arseh Sevom
online Magazine: http://www.arsehsevom.net/zine/?p=44 
Best,elham gheytanchi
> From: marichal at callutheran.edu
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:55:38 -0700
> CC: air-l at aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Gender and Online Activism
> 
> 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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> > http://openhumanitiespress.org/), that explores critical and speculative
> > 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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