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CFP: All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop Scholarship
Call For PapersA Special Issue of Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. “All Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop Scholarship”Issue Guest Editors: Shanté Paradigm...
View ArticleThe Female Biography Project: international, multilingual, IT-driven
I'm writing to share an event and some links related to The Female Biography Project, an international, multilingual, collaborative digitally-supported endeavor with which I've been involved since...
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Feminist POC Wikipedia Takeover at JustPublics@365
Feminist POC Wikipedia Takeover!March 15th, 2013 * 11am - 3pmread more
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#tooFEW - collaborative wiki page
Welcome to the collaborative wiki page for #tooFEW. Add your resources, links and questions below! You can edit this page if you are a registered member of HASTAC.Other official info on...
View ArticleTHATCamp Feminisms West #tcfw: Precarity, Solidarity, and Pressure
It's been over a week since THATCamp Feminisms West, hosted by Jacque Wernimont at the Claremont Colleges in LA. Somehow this blogpost got lost in the rush to finish grading, and to prep for an...
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SLSA 2013 - PostNatural
PostNatural - SLSA 2013The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)Location: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (USA)Dates: October 3-6,...
View ArticleFeminist Scholars Workshop
Hi All:Is anyone who is working on feminist scholarship interested in "getting together" over the summer to share work, give feedback, and exchange ideas? If folks are interested, I'm thinking we...
View ArticleWikipedia is pushing the boundaries of scholarly practice but the gender gap...
[Cross-posted from Impact of Social Sciences]Wikipedia is the largest reference work the world has ever created. It is the sixth-largest website in the world. It is the most visited reference work on...
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This coming fall: Decoding the Digital-Technology, New Media, and A Culture...
My institution will be holding a digital humanities event called "Decoding the Digital" this coming fall. The dates will be likely on September 12-14. We are bringing a mix of academia and industry...
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Beyond categorization on Wikipedia
There are 508 articles in the category “English women writers” and 30 in the subcategory “English women dramatists and playwrights”. Is that how many writers there actually are? Absolutely not. Am I...
View ArticleWho speaks for the women of Wikipedia? Not the women of Wikipedia.
In the past few days, there has been extensive coverage of Wikipedia’s “categorygate”. In this post, I am not concerned with the details of what happened during the debate over the category “American...
View ArticleReview of Black Arts Live!
When I first came across the twitter link for Tammy Brown's open access e-book Black Arts Live! I was extremely excited by both the form and content. As the recent review of the fabulous show Now Dig...
View ArticleFembot Unconference: Multiplying Standpoints and Participatory Feminism
Fembot Unconference: Multiplying Standpoints and Participatory FeminismJuly 18-19, 2013White Stag, Portland, OregonThis event is free and open to UO faculty members, students, as well as the general...
View ArticleOn Changing the Rules of Digital Humanities from the Inside
There has been a lot of talk recently about how my field – Digital Humanities – has to change. We are too insular. We’re excluding those who want to partake in it. The structures that have been built...
View ArticleWikipedia's gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias
The question of the gender gap on Wikipedia has been percolating for several years now and “read more
View ArticleLooking at the five pillars of Wikipedia as a feminist, part 1
While Wikipedia can seem intimidating and overwhelming to new users, it is important to remember that it has only five basic rules: “the five pillars”. Successfully editing Wikipedia means...
View ArticleThe struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning
By Adrianne Wadewitz and Phoebe Ayers One of Wikipedia’s strengths is that it can be changed by anyone at anytime -- this means that its information is rarely outdated because the second or the minute...
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Reviewing featured articles on Wikipedia: contributing to the best articles...
One of the most useful functions that academics can perform on Wikipedia is reviewing articread more
View Article04. Gaming the System: Things I Learned by Asking Lit Majors to Design Their...
(Reposted from Gamer Trouble)I’m breaking my summer blogging hiatus by reflecting on the class I taught during Spring quarter. It was mentally and emotionally overwhelming in a lot of ways and has...
View ArticleThe Royal Society Women in Science Edit-a-thon
Date: Friday 11 October 2013; in two parts - editathon runs 13.15-18.00; panel 18.30-20.30.Venue: read more
View Articlerequest for references: global videogame culture and videogame and gender
Hi all,In my intro I mentioned briefly that I am looking for more references for two classes that I am proposing to teach next year. Now this is the post.read more
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Top 4 Tips from TransH4CK 2013
TransH4CK was uncharted territory, both for the transgender and hackathon communities. Never before had there been a hackathon specifically for trans empowerment, nor had there ever been a group of...
View ArticleTrans*H4CK, hackathon for trans* empowerment -- Las Vegas, Feb 21 - 23
Trans*H4CK is the first hackathon focused on the trans* community. It was conceived as a response to the growing social and economic barriers that plague the trans community. Due to anti-transgender...
View ArticleBerkman Center Event: Internet Skills and Wikipedia's Gender Inequality
Internet Skills and Wikipedia's Gender Inequalityread more
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Queering the Digital Humanities
How can the digital humanities be mobilized in the service of queer, feminist, trans*, and postcolonial social justice work? What are the points of convergence and divergence between social justice...
View ArticleCFParticipation: Critical Code Studies Working Group 2014 (2/12, 2/23-3/23/14)
Critical Code Studies Working Group 2014Feb 23-March 23, 2014read more
View ArticleCFP: Ada - Issue 8: Gender, Globalization and the Digital
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and TechnologyIssue 8: Gender, Globalization and the DigitalEdited by Adeline Koh and Roopika Risamread more
View ArticleTrans*H4CK @ #DML2014 - 'Trans*H4CK Reboot: A Workshop on Trans People and...
I will be doing a cafe talk at this year's Digital Media Learning conference! I wanted to take the opportunity to invite you all to that. Here's the original proposal -- and I aim to also discuss...
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ASA 2014 Panel: Queer OS
Our panel submission to the next American Studies Association conference was accepted! We will be presenting the following panel at #ASA2014 in Los Angeles, from November 6-9 2014.read more
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To be or not to be: Academic bios on Wikipedia
There has been a big push recently to add biographies of women to Wikipedia, especiallread more
View Article#QueerDH Then Not Now Blurring Dichotomies
cross posted from my blogproject also covered in prior HASTAC post Talk for Philly Queer Media read more
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Deadline Approaching: Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop
Event: 2014 Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop Dates: Monday, June 16th through Sunday, June 22ndSign-up Deadline: Monday, May 5th Remember that the deadline to register for the 2014 Feminist...
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CFP: Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and TechnologyIssue 7 CFP: Open CallFebruary 2015 Editors: Carol Stabile (University of Oregon) and Radhika Gajjala (Bowling Green State University)read more
View ArticleAlterConf Boston - on diversity in tech and gaming culture
"With the AlterConf Sessions we move beyond the 101 discussions and limited definition of diversity, covering all aspects of diversity - race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, language, country of...
View ArticleAlterConf NYC - on diversity in tech and gaming culture
"With the AlterConf Sessions we move beyond the 101 discussions and limited definition of diversity, covering all aspects of diversity - race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, language, country of...
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Job opportunity: tenure-track assistant professor of Digital Studies and...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of DIGITAL STUDIES and SOCIAL JUSTICE.read more
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Drones are for boys: Gender and popular surveillance culture
originally posted on my personal blog, but reposting here because I'd love to have a conversation on this. read more
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Volunteer for the Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop!
The Feminist Scholars Digital Workshop is an online, asynchronous, interdisciplinary workshop for individuals working on feminist-oriented research projects. The workshop offers an online forum where...
View ArticleTenured / Tenure Track Positions in Emerging Media and Communication at UT...
Please Note: Updated "Review Begins" date of March 16, 2015.read more
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