Cyberfeminism: Connectivity, Critique and Creativity

Other Books......Page 3
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Editors’ note......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Cyber Words......Page 11
Connectivity......Page 14
Critique......Page 18
Creativity......Page 20
References......Page 24
Connectivity......Page 27
one Home and the World: The Internet as a personal and political tool......Page 28
References......Page 39
Communication Technologies Bring Change to Feminist Ways of Working......Page 40
Women Do It! The Internet as a feminist tool......Page 41
Women’space magazine......Page 45
The Fight for Access to Resources......Page 48
The Women’s Internet Conference/ Conférence: les femmes et l’internet......Page 49
Challenges to Feminists......Page 51
References......Page 53
three Online Teaching: No fear of flying in cyberspace......Page 54
Teaching with it?......Page 55
Learning to develop Web sites......Page 56
What is First Class?......Page 57
How is First Class administered?......Page 59
How to succeed......Page 61
Silent ones or ‘Lurkers’?......Page 62
Roadblock to Girls and Women entering Cyberspace......Page 67
Critics: Opposition to girls flying in cyberspace......Page 70
Girls get connected......Page 72
Virtual Possibilities......Page 74
Visions: Where to from here?......Page 75
References......Page 76
four Email Forums and Women’s Studies: The Example of WMST-L......Page 78
References......Page 91
five Everyday Use: Women, Work and Online ‘Play’......Page 93
Access and Time......Page 94
Work, Identity and Online Community......Page 100
Discussion......Page 106
Conclusion......Page 109
References......Page 110
Cultural Practices of the Powerful......Page 112
Not seeing......Page 113
Cultural Homogeneity......Page 115
The Local......Page 116
Knowledge......Page 118
Community Networking: Subversion from the margins?......Page 121
References......Page 123
Critique......Page 126
Introduction......Page 127
Background of Information Technology (IT)......Page 128
IT’s Effects on Libraries and Librarianship......Page 129
Effects on Libraries and Library Users......Page 132
Accessing Information......Page 135
Feminism, Cyberspace, and Libraries: Now......Page 136
Feminism, Cyberspace, and Libraries: The future......Page 140
References......Page 142
eight The Internet and the Global Prostitution Industry......Page 144
Newsgroups and Web Sites for Men Who Buy Women and Children......Page 145
Prostitution Tours......Page 151
Bride Trafficking......Page 153
Sexual Exploitation and Organized Crime......Page 156
Live Videoconferencing......Page 159
Growth of the Commercial Prostitution Industry on the Internet......Page 160
Regulation......Page 163
References......Page 164
Introduction......Page 167
I Promises......Page 169
II Doubts......Page 172
Post-modern ideology…......Page 176
…and reproductive technologies......Page 177
Still Our Bodies—OurSelves?......Page 178
Multiple Identities......Page 179
Body Art......Page 180
Cyborgs......Page 181
Eroticised technobodies......Page 183
Cyberminds......Page 184
IV CyberFeminism: Holistic Strategies for Social Change......Page 187
References......Page 189
ten Cyborgs, Virtual Bodies and Organic Bodies: Theoretical Feminist Responses......Page 192
Cyborg Bodies......Page 193
Virtual Bodies......Page 201
Organic Bodies......Page 213
Conclusion......Page 221
References......Page 222
eleven Feminist Poetics and Cybercolonisation......Page 226
References:......Page 249
Creativity......Page 251
Can you see?......Page 252
See me move.......Page 253
Recent History......Page 254
What can we use it for and why would I even want to?......Page 261
The downside......Page 265
Ramifications......Page 267
On the Internet......Page 269
thirteen The Nickelodeon Days of Cyberspace......Page 271
The Beginnings of Interactive Soap Opera and Melodrama......Page 279
The Dovetailing of Entertaining Role-Play and Mental Health......Page 281
The Principles of Drama: Real life and fantasy......Page 284
The Place of Archetypal Characters and Stereotypes in Role-play Development......Page 286
Role-play Scenarios and Mental Constructs......Page 287
Story Plots and Character Plotting for online role-play......Page 290
Interface Design for Communication Tracking......Page 291
Meta-Game Design......Page 294
Role-Play Design for Player Self-Development......Page 295
References......Page 297
Cyberpunks......Page 299
Theme One: The journey from oral representation and communication to cyberspace......Page 303
Theme Two: Alice as a metaphor of body and Pixel as mind......Page 305
Theme Three: The reconciliation of body and the mind in cyberspace......Page 307
Practical Uses of the Internet for Fiction Writers......Page 308
Conclusion: Cyberfeminism and Creativity......Page 309
References......Page 310
The transition from teaching to technology......Page 311
Development by evolution......Page 316
Concept development......Page 318
Instructional design......Page 319
Storyboarding......Page 320
Interface design......Page 321
Resources......Page 322
Programming......Page 323
Testing and editing......Page 324
sixteen Fiction and Interactive Multimedia......Page 326
References......Page 328
Hindu tradition, text and technology, implications for global education......Page 329
References......Page 337
eighteen A Hyperfext Fable and Some Explanation......Page 338
Hypertext......Page 342
Poetry......Page 346
Feminism......Page 350
Unstopped Mouths......Page 352
References......Page 359
Glossary......Page 361
References......Page 367
Notes on Contributors......Page 368
Index......Page 379