There’s a lot going on these days that I’m excited about – here’s a short list: Liz Losh wrote up the first of our series of Digital Media and Learning posts about our Trust Challenge Addressing Antifeminist Violence work this year. The post follows on the summer summit held at ASU and announces the start of the Center for Solutions to Online Violence – a collaborative and distributed process of […]
Author: Jacqueline Wernimont
Signal Boost – GG attacks SXSW panels on online safety, harassment, and VR.
Via Arthur Chu and with permission: “As you may know, the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin uses a crowdsourced approval method for its panels, taking into account online voting to see which proposed panels get approved. (http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/) Three panels proposed for SXSW Interactive — about gaming and interactive media — are being attacked by GamerGate right now. One of them, a panel about VR, isn’t even related to […]
Internet Safety Resource List
As part of our ongoing effort to address antifeminist violence online, the AAFVO project team has been working on a resource list. Inevitably this will be incomplete and subject to change – nothing stays stable on the web for long. This is very much a work in progress. We welcome your input about resources we should list and other places we might look. The majority of the credit for this […]
#WhosFirst – the Facebook Icon Experiment
This will be a very outline-esque post because I have three other writing deadlines in the next week, but I just can’t resist getting some of this out there for all the other curious cats. Please – if you’re interested in doing something with this story, let me know; I will happily share the data/survey with you. I don’t have the time to write this up, but it clearly deserves […]
#iwomi and feminist actions
I’m currently somewhere 35,000 feet in the air, roughly over Kansas, making my way back home from the International Workshop on Misogyny and the Internet, aka #iwomi. When working to address violence against feminists, the very act of meeting can be both radical and dangerous. While an event in an elite setting in the U.S. is probably less at risk than meetings of feminists elsewhere, there’s a lot to be […]
Build a better list of code experts
I’ll admit that I post this in frustration. I’ve been watching several prominent conversations on social media that seem to argue (from the distance that is always social media) that everyday misogyny is ok, that gendered/sexed derogatory language is a cute example for corpus analysis, and that there just aren’t any good women out there doing “hard core” code work we can point to (I don’t support that formulation, nor the […]
Call for Proposals: Feminist Debates in DH
Colleagues, we invite your contributions to a proposed third volume in the Debates in DH series, which was inaugurated by Matt Gold and is now directed by Gold and Lauren Klein. This series will continue the first volume’s commitment to open access and peer-to-peer review. In order to propose a piece, please send an abstract and a short (2 page) vita to Jacque Wernimont and Elizabeth Losh at jwernimo (at) […]
Addressing Antifeminist Violence Online: Work Narrative
Need According to a recent Pew Study, 1 in 4 women have experienced online stalking or sexual harassment. Labeled as “social justice warriors,” prominent journalists, media makers, and bloggers have been harassed and threatened for writing about economic inequality, education, and racism in popular culture. The culture of fear that is being created impacts not just professionals, but more perniciously, young women and men who are developing their habits and […]
Addressing Anti-Feminist Violence Online – beginnings
I’m delighted to announce here that the Digital Media and Learning Competition 5: The Trust Challenge has selected FemTechNet’s “Addressing Anti-Feminist Violence Online” for funding. This was a wonderfully collaborative effort that arose out conversations sparked by both GamerGate and the violences experienced in the summer of 2014 by female public intellectuals like Dr. Sarah Kendzior (which Eric Garland’s Urgent Dispatch from the Seat of White Privilege does a good […]
Build a better DH syllabus
Prompted by a discussion on twitter (ht to Whitney Trettien and Daniel Powell) today (2/18/2015) about the inexcusable absence of women’s work from DH syllabi, I’m creating a space for collecting resources (the initial set up is derived from the DHSI course on Feminist DH that I teach each year with Liz Losh – if you’re not on here, it’s not because I don’t know and love your work – […]