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Title:

Everything I Needed to Know About the Web I Learned from Feminism

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Beginner
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Category:
Community / Social Networks
Organizer:
Heather Gold, subvert
Panelists:
danah boyd (danah.org), Heather Gold (subvert)
Description:
Feminism teaches "the personal is political" and the web shows that the personal is now public. Christmas newsletters and recipes are the social media of their time, and women are the key social nodes of our culture. In her comic and though-provoking style, Heather Gold brings together 4 very different feminist and web thinkers to discuss what makes social networks strong and predict where they're heading next online.
Ed Schipul
on 8/8/08
Heather Gold? The Heather Gold? Oh this is a definite must-attend panel!
Ali Cherry
on 13/8/08
Geek, comedian, truth, the web, social networks and feminism. A deadly combination! I'll definitely be there!
Babette Pepaj
on 28/8/08
Interesting topic!
heather gold
on 29/8/08
Thanks guys.

I'm really looking forward to digging into this conversation with some really interesting feminist scholars and web / network thinkers. This is the last day to vote. If you'd like this conversation to happen at SXSW, please vote for it now and I'll podcast it too.

There is a really lovely compatibility about the notion of transcendence in both feminism and the Net....both of which give protection and community to those who have been invisible / "private" before.

The Net is quantifying / making visible the value of the social skills / communal skills that have previously gone unvalued by the market or "public" space.

Authority is being more publicly marked as directly relational rather than imposed or one-off.

I don't think it's a change in where authority comes from ..but that this aspect was "hidden" by it being a silent piece of "private" life that women mostly carried out....preparing holidays, gatherings..maintaining relationships..creating and giving physical and other bits of acknowledgement (gifts , cards ..the Christmas newsletter etc)

online casino
on 4/5/09
Very interesting discussion, thank you
last minute
on 18/5/09
Can't wait!
Do it today!
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