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Re: [Air-l] sources on gendering of technology?
by NANCY MCDONALD-KNWRTHY 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

I've also got some other interesting resources (that I'm actually working on this very minute): One of the earlier researchers would be Sherry Turkle, and her ealy work (1995) on "Life on the Screen: Identity inthe age of the Internet" (book) NY: Simon & Schuster. She's got quite a bit of ongoing work after that. Another one that I have in my hands: Dale Spender's "Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace" (1995). Another piece discussed in class today is by Michele Martin (1991) "The culture of the telephone" (ch 3 in Sex/Machine: Readings in culture, gender and technology ed Patrick D. Hopkins, Indiana Press. Interesting concept: the early invention of telephone was intended for business, and women were not supposed to be using it at home; the enterpreneurs had no idea of the possibilities of this tool.. ;-) Nancy McDonald-Kenworthy, TA Education Policy & Leadership: Cultural Studies 121 Ramseyer Hall Columbus, Ohio 43210 http://www.cstw.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tuszynski, Stephanie" <stuszyn(a)UTNet.UToledo.Edu> Date: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:16 pm Subject: [Air-l] sources on gendering of technology? > Hi everyone - > > I was hoping some people could suggest some sources on the subject > of gendering technology? I'm thinking in particular of research > that looked at things like "women use the phone to gossip while > men use it for business" and so forth. > > References that talk about using the Internet for "information > gathering" versus social activity would also be helpful. > > Thanks > > Stephanie Tuszynski > Visiting Assistant Professor > Department of Theatre and Film > University of Toledo > > > _______________________________________________ > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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Re: [Air-l] sources on gendering of technology?
by NANCY MCDONALD-KNWRTHY 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

You might also want to check what Cornelia Brunner has been doing in her 30-yr research in gender and technology: http://cct.edc.org/indv_staff.asp?numStaffId=14 I just finished a reading of hers: "The feminization of technology" (2002) in Ghosts in the machine: women's voices in research with technology, Yellin and Andee Robin, eds., (pp 71-96). NY: Peter Lang. Nancy McDonald-Kenworthy, TA, PhD student, Education Policy & Leadership: Cultural Studies 121 Ramseyer Hall Columbus, Ohio 43210 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sara M. Grimes" <smgrimes(a)sfu.ca> Date: Thursday, July 19, 2007 2:36 pm Subject: Re: [Air-l] sources on gendering of technology? > Hi Stephanie - > Here are a few on technology that you might find useful: > > Berg, Anne-Jorunn and Merete Lie (1995). Feminism and > constructivism: Do > artefacts have gender? Science, Technology & Human Values 20(3): > 332-351. • > > Graner Ray, Sheri (2004). Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the > market. Hingham: Charles River Media. > > Kirkham, Pat (ed.) (1996). The Gendered Object. Manchester: Manchester > University Press. > > Rothschild, Joan, Althea Cheng, Etain Fitzpatrick (eds.) (1999). > Design and > Feminism: Re-Visioning Spaces, Places and Everyday Things. Rutgers > University Press. > > Wajcman, Judy (1991). Feminism confronts technology. University > Park: Penn > State University. > > Shade, Leslie Regan (2007) "Feminizing the Mobile: Gender > Scripting of > Mobiles in North America." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural > Studies,21(2). > > > Sara M. Grimes > PhD Student/School of Communication > Research Assistant/Applied Communication + Technology (ACT) Lab > Simon Fraser University > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:16:59 -0400 air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > > Hi everyone - > > > > I was hoping some people could suggest some sources on the > subject of > > gendering technology? I'm thinking in particular of research that > > looked at things like "women use the phone to gossip while men > use it > > for business" and so forth. > > > > References that talk about using the Internet for "information > > gathering" versus social activity would also be helpful. > > > > Thanks > > > > Stephanie Tuszynski > > Visiting Assistant Professor > > Department of Theatre and Film > > University of Toledo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers > http://aoir.org> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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Re: [Air-l] sources on gendering of technology?
by Sara M. Grimes 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi Stephanie - Here are a few on technology that you might find useful: Berg, Anne-Jorunn and Merete Lie (1995). Feminism and constructivism: Do artefacts have gender? Science, Technology & Human Values 20(3): 332-351. Graner Ray, Sheri (2004). Gender Inclusive Game Design: Expanding the market. Hingham: Charles River Media. Kirkham, Pat (ed.) (1996). The Gendered Object. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Rothschild, Joan, Althea Cheng, Etain Fitzpatrick (eds.) (1999). Design and Feminism: Re-Visioning Spaces, Places and Everyday Things. Rutgers University Press. Wajcman, Judy (1991). Feminism confronts technology. University Park: Penn State University. Shade, Leslie Regan (2007) "Feminizing the Mobile: Gender Scripting of Mobiles in North America." Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 21(2). Sara M. Grimes PhD Student/School of Communication Research Assistant/Applied Communication + Technology (ACT) Lab Simon Fraser University On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:16:59 -0400 air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org wrote: > Hi everyone - > > I was hoping some people could suggest some sources on the subject of > gendering technology? I'm thinking in particular of research that > looked at things like "women use the phone to gossip while men use it > for business" and so forth. > > References that talk about using the Internet for "information > gathering" versus social activity would also be helpful. > > Thanks > > Stephanie Tuszynski > Visiting Assistant Professor > Department of Theatre and Film > University of Toledo > > > _______________________________________________ > The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ >

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IR8 roommate finder
by Kris Markman 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hello fellow AoIRers! Since rooms at the IR8 hotels seem to be going fast, it occurred to me that some of us may be looking for a roommate. To facilitate this, I put up a roommate finder on the wiki for people to post notices/ queries: http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=IR8_Roommate_Finder Looking forward to Vancouver, Kris M. ---------- ---------- ---------- Kris M. Markman, Ph.D. krism(a)alumni.utexas.net http://home.earthlink.net/~kmmarkman/index.html

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Re: [Air-l] Social networking hobby sites
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

I recently heard a wonderful presentation about a sewing site: http://www.burdastyle.com/ It is commercially oriented, relatively new, and growing quickly. It is expecting to make money through fabric sales but at present is in development and supports a wide community of sewers who adapt the Burda patterns. They have a creative commons approach to their patterns -- they can be used, modified and sold. /Caroline ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:53:28 +1000 >From: mhward <mhward(a)usyd.edu.au> >Subject: [Air-l] Social networking hobby sites >To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > >There is a new a social networking site for people with fibre hobbies >(knitters, spinners, weavers, crocheters etc): http://www.ravelry.com/ > >In a matter of weeks over 17,000 people are either in the site or on a >waiting list - the developers have had to put up a form so people can check >where they are on the list to save their own sanity. They have been able to >give up their day jobs and work on this fulltime, although it's not clear to >me how the money is flowing to them personally. The site is still in beta, >which is why they aren't giving all comers free access. > >Techcrunch recently poured some sarcasm on this (knitting is often portrayed >very negatively on tech sites), but some of the comments are interesting: >http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/15/lets-get-down-to-some-hard- core-knittin >g/ > >Does anyone know of other hobby social networking sites like this that have >such big numbers of members/would-be members? I guess that flickr and u- tube >would qualify, although they are perhaps less 'niche', but are there others? > >M-H > > > >_______________________________________________ >The air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list >is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org >Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > >Join the Association of Internet Researchers: >http://www.aoir.org/ ---------------------------------------- Caroline Haythornthwaite Associate Professor Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820

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Lars Kirchhoff ist außer Haus.
by Lars Kirchhoff 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Ich werde ab 18.07.2007 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 06.08.2007. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten.

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periodic table of the interent
by Jeremy Hunsinger 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-06-23-- periodic-table-of-the-internet.html jeremy hunsinger Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ LI-the journal http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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Re: [Air-l] Is all Communication Commercial?
by Cameron Adams 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

No. Just because all known forms of communication can be used for commercial activities does not mean all forms of communication are commercial in themselves. As one poster has noted, "commercial" can be stretched quite far, but the concept of commercial is rather knew in human history. Another poster noted that writing arose as an aid to commercial transactions. To the best of our knowledge this is true, but writing is certainly not the first form of communication. Further, communication is not a human exclusive domain. One would be hard pressed to claim that the calls of chimps are commercially motivated. Even broadcasting (an agricultural metaphor) was nearly abandoned as a means of communication until someone applied the metaphor and saw the potential for commercial needs. I think that a better question may be "Is there a form of communication that can not be used in a commercial context?" Or something like that. All IMHO, my good friends. Cheers, Cam

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Call For Papers: “The Synthetic Aesthetics of New Media Art”
by Carolyn L Kane 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Call For Papers: “The Synthetic Aesthetics of New Media Art” Presented by The New Media Caucus in Association with the College Art Association February 20–23, 2008, Dallas, TX http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/ Contrary to traditional aesthetic theories that argue for the primacy of either the subjective and phenomenological, or formal and objective interpretations of artwork, the aesthetics of electronic media, like the logic of technical media itself, is thoroughly removed from anthropomorphic sensibility. One could say that electronic media aesthetics are marked by technical trauma. However, much contemporary new media art criticism exemplifies a hermeneutic approach that seeks to rationalize and transform work into intelligible “art objects” for canonization and social theories. Is this approach problematic for the logic of technical media? Can certain attributes such as color, form, affect, or sound, effectively reconcile computer based artwork with the subjective and humanistic drives in art making? The panel invites papers that address the aesthetics of New Media art in distinction to previous aesthetic models or media platforms. For instance, papers suggesting the ways in which color, sound, line, form, symbolism, affect, anti-aesthetics, or ideology may be distinct to new media aesthetics are all welcomed. Essentially the panel inquires: what do aestheticians address in New Media art, and why? Which artists and / or commercial work do you think best exemplifies these issues? Special attention will be given to those abstracts that are concerned with the use of color in New Media work. • Timeline: Abstracts (max 500 words) and a brief bio due by October 1, 2007. Presenters will be notified by October 15, 2007. Final Papers due February 1, 2008. Send abstracts and papers to: clk267(a)nyu.edu •Format: Presenters can propose brief lectures; media or artist presentations of their own, or other artists’ work; discussions; or other acceptable suggestions. Contact me with any questions: Carolyn Kane: clk267(a)nyu.edu For CAA conference information visit: http://conference.collegeart.org/2008/

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Making Links 2007: Keynote speakers announced
by Marcus Foth 18 Jul '07

18 Jul '07

Making Links 2007 Keynote speakers announced Making Links is pleased to announce Danny Butt and Dr Christine Satchell as keynote speakers at the Making Links conference October 30th - 31st. Danny Butt is a consultant in new media, culture, and development based in Aotearoa New Zealand. In his presentation Danny will outline some of the ways that community-based practitioners can avoid some of the pitfalls of new technology in planning and evaluating their projects. Dr Christine Satchell currently works at the University of Melbourne's Interaction Design Group. Christine will discuss emerging technology trends such as Web 2.0 with a particular focus on strategies non-profit and community organisations can employ to interact with youth and young people for social change and community action. You can view Danny and Christine’s abstracts at: http://www.makinglinks.org.au/news/detail.chtml?filename_num=168129 Abstracts still being accepted Don’t forget, the deadline for abstracts is COB Monday July 30th. See http://www.makinglinks.org.au/papers.shtml for suggestions and submission guidelines. Registrations are open Register now to take advantage of our generous earlybird rate. http:// www.makinglinks.org.au/registration.shtml Making Links 2007 acknowledges the support of Bronze Sponsor The Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology Making Links 2007 is organised by: Jill Sergeant, Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) (Conference Chair) Marcus Foth, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (Academic Program Chair) Simon Gee, CommunIT, Community Information Strategies Australia (CISA) Jonathan Hallett (Western Australian Centre for Health Promotion Research, Curtin University of Technology) Liz Landray, Infoxchange Australia Liliana Ruti, Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) Juan Salazar, Lecturer, Media Studies and Production, University of Western Sydney (UWS) -- Dr Marcus Foth Australian Postdoctoral Fellow Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 313 x88772 - Fax x88195 - Office Z6-511 m.foth(a)qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/publications/

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