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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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