This page lists past and upcoming seminars, meetups and edit-a-thons planned by FemTechNet.
Previous Events
- Dec 2014 @ Barnard: Workshop/ Edit-a-thon that took place at Barnard College on December 12th, 2014.
Upcoming Event
- Date: Thursday, January 29th & Thursday, Feb 5th
- Time: 2:30-3:50 p.m. PT (1/29) & 1-3:50 p.m. PT (2/5)
- Location: Face-to-face class session held at University of Southern California.
- Event: A seminar / edit-a-thon! Students in [Vicki Callahan|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Djzoetrop]'s "New Media For Social Change" class in the Media Arts + Practice program at the University of Southern California
- Course Description: This course focuses on using digital tools for social change in our highly mediated, globally connected world. The course fulfills the Diversity Requirement by considering the ways in which race and gender function in the world, how these issues are mapped onto digital space and, finally, the possibilities for intervention using digital media.
This semester our focus will be on issues of gender and sexual equality with special attention to feminist media praxis. Our community partner for this course will be the feminist technology and education collaborative group, FemTechNet (http://femtechnet.org). Our projects will focus on issues of representation, women media makers, and alternative strategies for storytelling and writing history. We will begin with the reclaiming of women’s media history via “wikistorming” activity and conclude by developing a cross-platform story employing “speculative fiction” or counter-histories of gender representation.
- Hashtag: #FemTechNet #DOCC14
Preparation
Preparation: Students/ participants should create an account at least by the 2/5 session, look through the suggested readings below. Furthers resources will also be linked below.
What to Bring
Students (and participants from outside the class) should read the articles linked under resources below. By the 2/5 session, students should have created an account and signed in on this page as an attendee. Though it would be very helpful for students to have an idea of Wikipedia articles they would like to see improved by the 2/5 session (you can look at the links below for guidance in finding these articles), instructors are working on finding an article the group can contribute to together.
If you wish to work on a particular topic or article during the 2/5 session, you may do prior research and bring a bibliography with you. You can also bring a laptop to use during the session, though we are meeting in a computer lab with available machines.
Sign Up
Please make sure to RSVP for the local events. Once you have an account, make sure to add your name below.
Please just add your Wikipedia name to the list below with four tildas (~~~~). If you have comments, insert them after a dash.
Confirmed attendees
Potential attendees
Remote attendees
Regrets
Suggested Readings
From Adrianne Wadewitz’s HASTAC blog:
- “The struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning,” (with Phoebe Ayers)(9/3/13)
- “Looking at the five pillars of Wikipedia as a feminist, part 1″ (8/26/13) & part 2 (11/13/13)
- “Wikipedia’s gender gap and the complicated reality of systemic gender bias,” (7/26/13)
Further Readings
About “Wikipedia’s Women Problem”:
- James Gleick, “Wikipedia’s Women Problem,” The New York Review of Books (4/29/13)
- Amanda Filipacchi, “Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists,” New York Times Opinion (4/24/13)
- Sue Gardner, “New York Times prompts a flurry of coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap,” Sue Gardner’s Blog (1/31/11)
- Noam Cohen, “Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List,” The New York Times (1/30/11)
Lists to work from
Try improving an existing article -- most of them need copyediting, references added or other work! This is often a better place to start than writing a new article from scratch.
- Dkriegls - Biography to-do list - List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
- Dsp13 - Redlinks - Women - Women around the world
- Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list:
- Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - Sorted by profession
- Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - In other sources - Sorted by other sources
- Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - Awards and honors - Sorted by awards and honors
- Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - By nationality - Sorted by nationality
- Gobonobo - Gender Gap red list - Non-biographical topics - Sorted by topic
- Rosiestep - Gender Gap red list - Gender Gap of notable women with links to other language Wikipedia articles; sorted by topics and nationality
- Yupik - Redlinks - Indigenous Women - Redlink and stub lists for articles of indigenous women from around the world
Specific Articles
- Carol Twombly - Article needs inline citations
- Carmelita Little Turtle - Article needs more citations, at risk for deletion for lack of notability, needs to be expanded with proper sections, needs an info box
- Marianne Strengell - An article we can create together [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Projects
Help the following WikiProjects: