http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2010/08/13/some-models/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-models Gender, New Media, and Technology Fri, 03 May 2013 14:08:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2010/08/13/some-models/#comment-14 Carol Stabile Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:25:20 +0000 http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2010/08/13/some-models/#comment-14 haha. following from this, I think one of the important things about Fembot might be the fact that we’re not trying to wrestle a population away from a disciplinary association or publication — we’re trying to wrestle an interdisciplinary field into being. For me, that’s one of the reasons I wanted to support this — I’m just weary of having to deal with those who want to defend specific media, methodological approaches, or disciplinary truisms. I think the focus of Fembot — should we decide to maintain it — on gender, new media, and technology gives us a way to think outside those old boxes.

]]> http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2010/08/13/some-models/#comment-15 Bryce Peake Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:22:23 +0000 http://fembotcollective.org/blog/2010/08/13/some-models/#comment-15 I think there’s also an important lesson (and big difference) between Fembot and anthropos/openanth- both were really a reaction against the terrible professional organization available to anthropologists. Although they filled a much needed gap (an actual intellectual collaborative for anthros), they weren’t able to wrestle a population away from the American Anthropological Association because there was not enough synergy. The communication was clunky, the mission ill-defined, and there was no true means (as in they didn’t own their own platform). The lesson to be learned from them? I believe that a Californian proverb sums it up best: “go big or go home.”

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