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Title:

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

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Organizer:
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.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is necessary for online social networks to mature?
  2. What does it mean for a social network to be given a monetary value?
  3. Has the feminist movement (eg. moving women into the public sphere) decreased their social role, creating a need for online social networks?
  4. Compare the exchange of information and building of trust online and in traditional social networks
  5. What does feminist history tell us about which social networks succeed? Can they be "owned"?
  6. Are women still the "private" social nodes online (eg community managers) while men take public credit (eg CEOs)?
  7. How is the web feminist?
  8. What do you mean by feminism?
  9. Is posting to the web a political act?
  10. Can you run a successful social network without women?
Panelists:
danah boyd (danah.org), Heather Gold (subvert)
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Community / Social Networks
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
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)

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on 4/5/09
Very interesting discussion, thank you
last minute
on 18/5/09
Can't wait!
Sergio Kotko
on 4/8/09
How do you think it possible the emergence of feminist social networks?
Essay help
on 7/8/09
it will be good! I know it!
La Zagaleta property
on 27/8/09
I think that posting to the web is very much a political act and should be viewed as such. I love the way you compare christmas newsletters and recipes as social media of its time, never thought of it that way.
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on 13/11/09
I'd be super into learning from Kris. Dig it!
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