Hm.. my website is the thumbnail of this video. I don't have time to watch this whole thing right now, but am totally willing to address any concerns of sexism, either in public or in private. I very firmly believe in gender equality.
R On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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