Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 02:14:39 -0400
Subject: Call for participation in Preconconference workshop at AOIR


The following preconference workshop will happen on Wednesday, October 15 
at Toronto during the International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the 
Association of Internet Researchers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. If you 
have any questions please contact me off-list (radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org). 
There are a few limited slots still available for people wishing to be 
panelists at this preconvention. Researchers interested in being panelists, 
please submit a brief statement of interest and description of how your 
work is relevant.

see http://www.ecommons.net/aoir/conference.phtml for details on 
registration and so on.

Postcolonial Feminists Meet Internet Studies (afternoon) [$50]
Organizer: Radhika Gajjala, Associate Professor, Department of 
Interpersonal Communication Bowling Green State Univeristy

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together well-known Internet 
related feminist researchers who position themselves as doing race, gender, 
and postcolonial theory at the site of internet and technology research. 
Researchers include Theresa Senft, Lisa Nakamura, Jillana Enteen and some 
others in the field of Internet studies and Science and Tech studies who, 
while they work on issues of diversity, digital divide and the Internet, 
would not necessarily see themselves along the same lines as those whose 
work intersects with postcolonial feminisms (e.g., Charles Ess and Michel 
Minou). We will assert the basic problematics and struggles involved in 
bringing together the two fields - "postcolonial feminisms" and "internet 
studies". The session will be concluded with an open round table discussion 
where all people attending the workshop will be asked to engage with the 
issues laid out.




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