CfP EASST 2006 EXTENDED DEADLINE January 16th
EASST Conference 2006, University of Lausanne, EXTENDED DEADLINE: Paper and session proposals will now be accepted up to the new deadline of January 16th, 2006 Session proposals are provisionally published on the Conference website http://www2.unil.ch/easst2006/ see "what's new". Send your session proposal as soon as possible to easst2006@unil.ch The Call for Papers (reminder) "Reviewing humanness: bodies, technologies and spaces" What is it to be human today? How are developments in science and technology affecting the human experience? Developments in the life sciences offer new ways of understanding and intervening in bodily processes. Human influence is distributed through socio-technical networks and artifacts. Transnational connections and imaginings extend our conception of humanness. What concepts do we need to understand these processes and to address their practical and political consequences? "Reviewing Humanness" forms the theme for biennial conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from 23rd to 26th August 2006. Paper and session proposals addressing any aspect of the theme are welcomed. All members of the science, technology and innovation studies community are invited to attend and there will be open paper sessions for topics outside of the theme. See the full Call for Papers and all information on the conference web site http://www2.unil.ch/easst2006/ Christine Hine Department of Sociology University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK c.hine@surrey.ac.uk http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/christine_hine.htm
Hi list, Not to keep bringing up Friendster, but I noticed something that may be of interest to people working on gender-related themes as well as social networking sites. There's currently a bulletin board post going around Friendster that is a petition to get Friendster to add an "it's complicated" option to the gender choices (which are just "male" or "female." "It's complicated" is a recently-added option for relationship status). The bulletin board head reads "Gender-make it "complicated" on friendster." I have no idea how widespread this is - my hunch is not very, but I only have access to the bulletins of my friends, and three of them have posted it, so I'm curious if it's out there elsewhere. 1) Has anyone else seen this post or heard about it? Do we know of any similar instances of user-driven system changes toward a >2-gender norm? Has this happened before on Friendster or other networking sites? (I haven't seen it on Myspace, for instance, and I pretty much have the same friends on both sites) 2) Is "It's complicated" the best phrasing for an addition of more gender possibilities? Interested in any and all thoughts (take a break from grading/writing papers!), Lauren ---- Lauren Squires Linguistics Program University of Virginia *** http://polyglotconspiracy.net http://sociocmc.blogspot.com
Kinda interesting - I'm often accused of "making gender complicated" in FLOSS circles whenever I challenge the biological women-have-crap-brains thesis as an explanation for everything. As though gender was sitting there innocently transparent until I came along. Clearly, the gods and wizards have difficulty imagining a non-binary model of gender - but i'm quite happy to have a gender option which "doesn't compile" - yep, it's complicated, and I'd prefer that on a dropdown to the ever-increasingly tongue-twisting les-gay-bi-trans-blah-blah stuff? Paula Lauren Squires wrote:
Hi list,
Not to keep bringing up Friendster, but I noticed something that may be of interest to people working on gender-related themes as well as social networking sites.
There's currently a bulletin board post going around Friendster that is a petition to get Friendster to add an "it's complicated" option to the gender choices (which are just "male" or "female." "It's complicated" is a recently-added option for relationship status). The bulletin board head reads "Gender-make it "complicated" on friendster." I have no idea how widespread this is - my hunch is not very, but I only have access to the bulletins of my friends, and three of them have posted it, so I'm curious if it's out there elsewhere.
1) Has anyone else seen this post or heard about it? Do we know of any similar instances of user-driven system changes toward a >2-gender norm? Has this happened before on Friendster or other networking sites? (I haven't seen it on Myspace, for instance, and I pretty much have the same friends on both sites)
2) Is "It's complicated" the best phrasing for an addition of more gender possibilities?
Interested in any and all thoughts (take a break from grading/writing papers!), Lauren
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Paula