Article Archive for June 2012
Women’s Laborers Transitioning and Reskilling through Digital Divides
What we learn from the juxtaposition of contexts from the Varied Geographical and Socio-cultural Contexts
by Radhika Gajjala
This article addresses ‘transition’ within a variety of contexts wherein subjectivities are negotiated at the intersection of age, gender, technology, and hierarchies of literacies and skills called for by a globalization that is shaped …
Feminism, Media, Technology in the News
Welcome to the first bi-weekly listing of some recent articles/blogs related to feminism, media, and technology. Disclaimer: This list is obviously not all-encompassing. It likely reflects an unconscious bias toward what I find intriguing (in the interest of self-reflexivity). If you come across something YOU find interesting that you’d like …
Fembot Happy Hour at Crossroads Conference
For those of you attending Crossroads Conference in Paris next week, we’ll be meeting on Thursday, 7/5 at Les Pipos (a wine bar / bistro and that has mains, sharing plates, cheeses, and charcuteries) plenty of good wine! We are reserved for dinner and drinks at 7pm sharp and the …
CFP Special Issue on Feminist Game Studies — Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
CALL FOR PAPERS
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
Issue 2: Feminist Game Studies
Editor: Nina Huntemann, Suffolk University (nhuntemann@suffolk.edu)
Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2012
Word length: 5000-9000 words
Publication Date: April 2013
Despite worldwide popularity across an increasingly diverse population of players, video and computer games continue to be defined, discussed, debated …
A Fresh Look at Male Promiscuity on TV
Having lots of sex with as many women as possible is the best, most desirable thing that any man can aspire to, right?
That’s usually the message presented by most male characters in popular media today. Male promiscuity is almost always portrayed as something admirable. But rarely, if ever, do we …
Fembot Zine: Feminist Media Production II
This is Fembot’s second Fembot Zine issue on media production – this time focused on sound. Over the past decade, the interdisciplinary field of sound studies has attracted increasing attention and participation on the part of feminist scholars. Many of these scholars freely cross the boundary between artist, composer, and …
Designed affections
by Jamie “Skye” Bianco
…by examining the rhythms of life in detail, by descending from the great rhythms forced upon us by the universe to the finer rhythms that play upon our most exquisite sensibilities, it would be possible to work out a rhythmanalysis…
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Lived experience, the …
Patterns of movement: landscapes, data + sound
by Tara Rodgers
Since 2005, I have worked with SuperCollider, an open-source programming language for audio synthesis, to create experimental music and sound art. Many of my projects employ data sonification techniques (conversions of data from diverse sources into sound) and generative compositional structures (which are open-ended in form and/or duration). …
Bridge: a duet
by Steph Ceraso
Bridge. noun. In music, a transitional passage connecting two subjects or movements.
My grandmother and I never talked much about music when I was growing up. I was aware that she liked music—I have vague memories of jitterbugging to records in her living room as a young child—but it …
Books aren’t dead!
Books Aren’t Dead will be a series of monthly interviews with authors of recent feminist books on new media, science, and technology. These will appear both as downloadable podcasts (no more than thirty minutes long) and as transcripts of those interviews. The goal of Books Aren’t Dead is to provide a forum for …
