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March 24, 2013 – 4:05 pm |

AdaCamp is a conference dedicated to increasing women’s participation in open technology and culture: open source software, Wikipedia-related projects, open data, open geo, fan fiction, remix culture, and more. AdaCamp brings women together to build community, discuss issues women have in common across open technology and culture fields, and find ways to …

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Books Aren’t Dead: ME Luka with Vicki Mayer

May 1, 2013 – 10:41 pm | One Comment

In this month’s interview M.E. Luka (Doctoral Candidate at Concordia University) talks with Vicki Mayer, author of Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy (Duke University Press, 2011).

Feminist Works

December 13, 2012 – 4:03 pm |

By Julie Levin Russo, Research Associate, Mount Holyoke College / Five College Women’s Studies Research Center
What’s at stake in the turn to “labor” as a keyword in media studies? Several people who have encountered my current project on queer female fan production have asked me that question, and I do …

Books Aren’t Dead- The Optical Effects of Lightning

December 1, 2012 – 9:19 am |

Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) is a regular, monthly podcast series of interviews between feminist scholars and feminist authors of recent books. It is edited by Hye-Jin Lee, and will be available on iTunes as a regular subscription podcast in the near future. 
In this issue of BAD, Joan Haran interviews Sarah …

Feminism, Media, and Technology in the News

July 15, 2012 – 9:17 am |

I have fallen out of my bi-weekly routine due to conference travel, a disruption that will resume for another week after my much-anticipated trip to Boston for Console-ing Passions.
Disclaimer: This list is obviously not all-encompassing. It likely reflects an unconscious bias toward what I find intriguing (in the interest of …

Feminism, Media and Technology in the News

July 3, 2012 – 2:09 pm |

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 me to include in …

Feminism, Media, Technology in the News

June 28, 2012 – 10:07 pm |

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 …