Thank for sharing this Zach! I am totally sympathetic to this issue. Reagle is totally justified here, but it goes far beyond Free Software / Free Culture worlds. These issues are ubiquitous in tons of areas throughout our society. And as someone both sensitive to these issues and also rejecting of inserting gender-focus into everything, I've ended up being hesitant to participate in *any* subculture or counter-culture community. The best respectful and fair community I've yet found is that of scientific mainstream academia, where there are still many issues.
At my project, Snowdrift.coop, I intend to develop an honor system and code of ethics that really works to keep this issue out, to be welcoming to all folks except those who make the community less welcoming. Cheers, Aaron -- Aaron Wolf wolftune.com On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Alex Leavitt <[email protected]> wrote: > This talk to some people might actually be a bit frustrating. I know that > Reagle doesn't mean to say that women are not a part of geek culture, but > that's what the majority if not all of the talk focuses on, instead of > women are (at least) highly active in a different part of the free culture > movement, even if they're a minority (and there are issues with software > culture in treating them as a minority). Mainly, I think that many of the > free-culture-ites in the fandom communities (for instance, most of the > people that make up the Organization for Transformative Works team, > http://transformativeworks.org/, and many of the participants in fan art, > fan fiction, and cosplay communities) would really rail against this > presentation because that aspect of free culture is not recognized in this > talk. > > Alex > > --- > > Alexander Leavitt > PhD Student > USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism > http://alexleavitt.com > Twitter: @alexleavitt > > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Zach McDowell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I did a Camtasia recording of last night's lecture by Joseph Reagle that >> I think you all might be interested in. The first part of it is sort of an >> overview (for a wide audience) by the latter part is an interesting >> discussion about Free Culture and FOSS/FLOSS and gender gap issues. >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_mdjPZIuqU&feature=youtu.be >> >> >> best, >> >> Zach >> >> ---------------------- >> Zachary J. McDowell >> Doctoral Candidate >> Department of Communication >> University of Massachusetts, Amherst >> >> Wikipedia Teaching >> Fellow<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Writing_As_Communication_Spring_2012> >> Managing Editor: communication +1 <http://www.communicationplusone.org/> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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