So how goes everything?

Havent heard from any of you in a while?

thankyou for your response post, Susanna

Thankyou Susanna.

I'm sure your post will generate further discussion.

As for me - I am a compulsive scribbler - give me any surface and I will scribble - that doesnt mean I always have something worthwhile to say.

And because of years (by golly - its now officially a DECADE...) of moderating experience on email lists and putting up stuff - web logging before "blog" became part of our everyday vocabulary because they found ways for people to journal online without having to know much code (even simple code like html) ... I seem to have no problems making an ass of myself online over and over again;-)

I will have substantive discussion/dialogue with your contribution hopefully later this week. Today I am off to Hyderabad, India - family and sabbatical related field work (working with my NGO collaborator and also possibly dialoguing with some livejournallers from those parts.

I'm expecting to be mobbed by family for a few days though.

more later,
r

hey susanna:)

Susanna - great to hear from you.

Was on a road trip over the weekend and am catching up.



Two things - in response (and this does not have to be only Susanna responding, of course...:)):



1] I'd be interested in you elaborating on how queering the internet - the ways in which it may disrupt (if at all) heternormative gender binaries to reproduce other saliences - in terms of desirable traits in subject positions within discursive and material transnational digital economies....



For instance, seeing how (granted the access is still class and geography specific in various ways) younger generations are social online in their everyday practices, and how some of these are also into Anime etc (and when you look at some more sophisticated anime - not always centered around marketing to the U.S. - there is some interesting gender blurring going on... ) - how are their notions of what it means to be gendered in a technomediated society shifting. How are gendered hegemonies rearticulated? And does rearticulation mean "liberation" in any sense?



(its like the telephone was for our generation - xcuse I meant MY generataion - quite transparent. I do remember though how there was awkwardness on the part of my grandmother and her generation - whatever I remember of her- in relation to acts of dialing and speaking in a phone...)





I look fwd to reading your book when it comes out.



2] Kris has asked about blogging experiences in the comments section to what you posted. And you mentioned being a "virgin" blogger... That question actually is for all of you, I'd say. And expanding upon what Kris says, what if anything is different about the way we dialogue at this interface?

What kinds of conversations might these sorts of formats foster, encourage etc.



hoping to hear from more of you ....

Welcome again!

Hello all,

We were all asked to do "self-introductions and dialogue about the many facets of cyberfeminist work that are driving your research in general and the collection in particular."

So here goes.

I am associate prof in the School of Comm Studies at Bowling Green State U - been here 8 years. Working at the intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, Technology and Globalization mostly from Postcolonial Feminist angle. Inevitably, queer theory intersects with what I do as do various development studies related issues. I dont want to say I study "digital divide" - because I think that framework is limited - but I can say I am trying to re-articulate the notion of "divides"... I wont say I research online learning environments - but I will say I develop them and as a result of that, am engaged in various writing projects related to that.

So I have critical view on "cyberfeminism". Questions I would ask are about production, choice, and Agency in relation to code and design. In addition, complicity and resistance, silence and voice are themes I have explored. After all - as of now many of the internet savvy consumers are women! But the key word here is CONSUMERS...

Stuff I've done etc can be viewed from my attempt at a professional url - http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik

(I say "attempt" and you'll see why;-))

My most recent published work includes my book "Cyberselves" (Altamira, 2004)

This July, I am off on Faculty improvement leave (one more way that we women get to "improve" upon ourselves - HA!) related field work in Cyberabad and nearby rural areas. But I am online periodically - even if not compulsively as I am usually.

Its been a pleasure reading your essays so far. So I hope to hear more.

Dear contributors...

Dear Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice Contributors:

Hope your summer is going well, and thanks so much for getting your revised 
manuscripts to us. During the summer we will be writing our introduction and 
section intros in order to share our sections with the respondents and meet our 
early fall deadline for a full review. We know it's a busy time, but we would like 
very much for you to log onto our blogsite to begin self-introductions and 
dialogue about the many facets of cyberfeminist work that are driving your 
research in general and the collection in particular. Thanks so much to those of 
you who have already done so. Some of you should have received an invitation 
from blogger.com in the last several weeks; if you have inadvertently deleted 
this email, let us know and we can re-invite you. In the event you received your 
invite a longer while ago, we will need to re-invite you and are in the process of 
doing so. Our site is at ; we believe the blog 
will help contribute to the dialogic nature of the collection and help us mirror that 
within our print overview. 

Looking forward to the conversation.

Kris, Radhika, and Christine

Welcome all

Blogs rock! Can't wait to get started. k

It's alive!

wow!

all of a sudden there is activity.

Hi all:)

radhika

Blog for Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice Discussion

Ready to start discussion. Welcome to all contributors!