{sorry for the crosspost} ___ 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 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@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/