My grandmother (Adah -aka Peggy - Ambrose - later Shade) at the turn of the century in San Francisco as a young working woman.

Barbara Crow and I were invited to give a talk on 'Feminist perspectives on Digital technology' at the University of Texas Austin as part of their Gender and Technology Speaker Series.

We had a great time! Thanks to our hosts Sharon Strover, Gretchen Ritter, Christa French, Hillary Hart, Phil Doty and new friends Joe Straubhaar, Martha Fuentes-Bautista, Nobuya Inagaki, Michael, and Winston.

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Gender and Community in the Social Construction of the Internet....

Who Makes the News? Global Media Monitoring Project 2005.

On 16th February 2005 the world's news media came under scrutiny when hundreds of people in over 76 countries monitored the representation and portrayal of women and men in news on television, radio and in newspaper. One year on, groups in over 50 countries will launch the results of this incredible effort and challenge the media to ensure that fair gender portrayal becomes a professional criterion like any other such as balance, fairness and honesty which all good journalists should aspire to in their work.

Some updated resources for the CRACIN Annotated Bibliography.

The path in BSCW is:

CRACIN Community Informatics bibliography and reading room

With Andrew Clement at OII - dashing in his suit.

A picture taken at Oxford Internet Institute in September 2003. I am sitting with Maria Bakardjieva and someone else whose name I can't remember - how embarassing! I look rather dissolute in one of those fading rock-star ways. Maria of course looks splendid as usual.

Some updated resources for the CRACIN Annotated Bibliography.

These are to be added under:

Technology: Broadband, Wireless, etc.

The path in BSCW is:

CRACIN Community Informatics bibliography and reading room
Location: (BSCW) Literature Review/Technology: Broadband, Wireless, etc./author name