Women, Technology and Networks in Eastern Europe

The exhibition project HACK.Fem.EAST seeks to present experimental and artistic practicesof artists and activists working in digital networks in Eastern Europe. Main topics are media, art and hacking. Protagonists are women or projects in which women play an important role.

Radhika Gajjala is Associate Professor in Interpersonal Communication/Communication Studies at Bowling Green State University. She teaches courses on Cyberculture, Humanistic Research Methods and Feminist Research Methods in Communication. Her research interests include new media technologies, critical theory, feminist theory, transnational communication, postcolonial theory. Vedi anche http://www.cyberdiva.org/

Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181.

Intervista a Sherry Turkle sulla Biblioteca Multimediale di Mediamente.

The Internet has been dominated by males since its inception. Although use of the Internet by females has increased dramatically in the last few years, women and girls worldwide still use the Internet less and in different ways than males. Low Internet use by females not only gives them less access to information and services available online, but also can have negative economic and educational consequences. This paper discusses barriers to greater female use of the Internet: the Internet as new technology, the masculine Internet culture, and gendered communication styles online. Historically, females have been less likely to embrace new technology than females.

"Le femministe cyborg devono sostenere che noi non vogliamo più nessuna matrice di unità e che nessuna costruzione è l'insieme. L'innocenza, unitamente al corollario del vittimismo come unico territorio dell'interiorità ha già fatto abbastanza danno (...)"
Donna Haraway - WOMEN, SIMIANS AND CYBORGS

with Miss M. and Meike Schmidt-Gleim at Public Netbase Media~Space! on the occasion of her presentation, "Cyberflesh: World Wide White Wash" on 28 April 1997