I am part of a global effort--FemTechNet--to archive and teach the history of feminism and technology and invite members of this list to join us in our collective efforts in building the world's first MDCLE. “Dialogues in Feminism and Technology” is a Massively Distributed Collaborative Learning Experiment: a feminist rethinking of a MOOC. For our feminist endeavor, teaching and learning are adaptive, dispersed, and shared. As technology remakes academia and the arts, we see that critical analysis of gender, sexualities, and race have been absent in much of this re-thinking of disciplines and practices. Feminist scholarship that made great strides in the pre-Internet era may be lost in the digital one. Feminists who work in a variety of disciplinary and institutional homes may not share their histories or current work. Course Description Produced collectively by FemTechNet—a network of hundreds of international feminist scholars in a variety of fields and disciplines—“Dialogues in Feminism and Technology” delivers (and grows) ten weeks of course content covering both the histories and cutting edge scholarship on technology produced through art, science and visual studies. Recorded conversations between luminaries in these fields will anchor each of ten weeks of themed content, but from there, each professor will tailor a course best-suited to her students, institution, locale, and discipline from a diverse, robust, and growing database of “Boundary Objects that Learn”—readings, media, web-resources, and conversations that are submitted and peer-reviewed for teaching by the network. Shared assignments will link learners across disciplines, institutions and national boundaries as their own efforts become part of the feminist database and dialogue. You can join the network by joining our listserv which sits on the fembotcollective.org<http://fembotcollective.org/> site under the pull-down "Register" Thanks and I hope to be collaborating with many of you soon. Alex Juhasz Media Studies Pitzer College
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