Flossie 2012 CfP

Submitted by bastubis on Fri, 16/03/2012 - 16:40

Flossie 2012 is a free, two-day event for women who use or are otherwise interested in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Digital Arts or Open Data, Open Knowledge, Social Innovation, Research and Education.

Flossie organisers IRC meeting

Submitted by bastubis on Thu, 20/10/2011 - 16:50
All women interested in Flossie welcome to come along on 21 Oct at 16:00 BST or 15:00 UTC). The meeting will be in the #fossbox IRC channel on freenode.net.If you're not familiar with IRC, you'll find instructions here: http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=159 and links to more information and guides. Or search YouTube for 'IRC tutorials' if you prefer video guides.

UpStage CfP

Submitted by bastubis on Mon, 11/04/2011 - 15:45
The fifth annual festival of cyberformance in UpStage will take place live online, on and around 11 November 2011. UpStage is a web-based platform for cyberformance: remote performers combine images, animations, audio, web cams, text and drawing in real-time for an online audience. More details and submit your proposal here

Les Hutchins

Les Hutchins bio

Debra Benita Shaw

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Debra Benita Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Media & Cultural Studies at the University of East London.

Jane Tolmie

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I'm a medievalist and literature specialist teaching Women's Studies at Queen's University, Ontario. My primary research interests are in early theatre, lyric poetry, medieval romance (verse and prose), performance studies, feminist and gender theory.

Paula Graham

picture of paula grahamAfter starting out in journalism and publishing, I got interested in digital cultures in the 90s whilst researching a PhD in film and critical theory at the University of Sussex. I then worked for Jake Eberts, co-founder of Goldcrest Films, and was on the Board of Cinenova, the women's independent film distributor, for many years.

Stephen Maddison

Stephen is Principal Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI) at the University of East London.

He teaches on a range of programmes including BA Cultural Studies, BA English Literature, BA Creative Writing, MA Cultural Studies, as well as supervising projects at Masters and PhD level.

All work and no play makes Jane a dull girl

Submitted by bastubis on Wed, 30/04/2008 - 17:17

Is Free/Libre Software a feminist issue? Policy-makers throughout the EU evince concern at the under-representation of women in the ICT training and industries. There's a growing body of research on the near absence of women in Free/Libre Software development. Software and gadget vendors are also anxious to tap the female market. But, much as with domestic violence, no-one seems to realise that technological exclusion begins at home. An exploration of why women are barely represented in Free/Libre Software also needs to begin at home.

The 'sympathetic male' and his discontents

Submitted by bastubis on Wed, 30/04/2008 - 17:14
I went to an academic 'do' recently in the Hallowed Halls of Oxbridge. Amongs much mutual congratulation and male bonhomie, Britain's principal authority on e-democracy divested himself of a policy recommendation that there should be a "Civic Commons" constituted as a coalition of governmental, media and civil organisations. Its function would be to bridge digital exclusion and address the crisis in democratic participation. The second respondent was a woman of clear analysis and compelling articulation—the only woman who spoke. The issue of gender was not raised by anyone at any point.

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