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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:17:05 -0500
From: Radhika Gajjala <radhika-AT-cyberdiva.org>
Subject: Cross-Context - International course 


The following course is being offered this summer at Bowling Green State 
University - see http://www.cyberdiva.org/tech.html for syllabus and 
contact radhik-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu for help with details on registering etc. 
This is an invitation to interested graduate students to participate - 
there are various options for how you might participate, so contact me with 
questions,

WS 694--TECHNOLOGY, MIGRANCY & GLOBALIZATION--(3 cr.)--Call# 
43546--5/12-6/02, SUMMER WORKSHOP
Short description: This is a unique, new workshop that extends the notion 
of webs and communities to geographical locations outside of Bowling Green, 
Ohio. Therefore this workshop examines various issues regarding labor, 
migration and globalization at the intersection of the digital and the 
analogue, by attempting to juxtapose various cultures of production locally 
and internationally in an effort to show how technology, migrancy and 
globalization are linked to our everyday lives whether in the US or in 
India. One of the instructors will bring an academic perspective and draw 
on her research and expertise with digital media and the other instructor 
will bring an activist/field-work perspective and draw on her expertise 
working with communities using weaving technologies in rural India.
This workshop's objectives are to familiarize participants with 
cyberfeminist theoretical frameworks while teaching them to work with 
specific computer programs and digital media.  In this workshop we 
critically examine theory and practice of producing digital texts and 
multi-mediated spaces for marginalized populations.

_________


Longer description:


Instructors: Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University

                         Annapurna Mamidipudi, Dastkar Andhra




International online and analogue meetings will be scheduled once the 
participants have been identified and accepted duration May 12 through June 
2nd.





Description:

Technology and its use has shaped and in turn been shaped by dominant 
production processes, community practices and cultural activities 
throughout history. Nowhere is this more obvious that in the practices of 
travel and communication fostered by modern and postmodern modes of work 
and play through an engagement with digital technologies. Therefore this 
course examines various issues regarding labor, migration and globalization 
at the intersection of the digital and the analogue, by attempting to 
juxtapose various cultures of production locally and internationally in an 
effort to show how technology, migrancy and globalization are linked to our 
everyday lives whether in the US or in India. One of the instructors will 
bring an academic perspective and draw on her research and expertise with 
digital media and the other instructor will bring an activist/field-work 
perspective and draw on her expertise working with communities using 
weaving technologies in rural India. Both have published co-authored essays 
juxtaposing these contexts (see for instance Gajjala and Mamidipudi 1999, 
2002, 2003 and forthcoming 2004).



In this course, through various activities, virtual engagements, community 
related projects and lectures, we suggest a close examination of multiply 
mediated contexts of technology design and use as a model for understanding 
the scope for empowerment of underprivileged women and men through 
information communication technologies. We will use several available 
digital and distance technologies for interaction.

___________________________
Radhika Gajjala

Associate Professor
Dept of IPC/School of Comm Studies
315 West Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403

419-372-0528
fax - 419-372-0202
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik



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