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Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg.

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dc.contributor.author Gqola, P
dc.date.accessioned 2007-11-15T09:28:11Z
dc.date.available 2007-11-15T09:28:11Z
dc.date.issued 2007-03
dc.identifier.citation Gqola, P. 2007. Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg. CCCB. "Challenges of urban diversity: Inclusive cities vs divided cities". University of the Witwatersrand, 12-13 March 2007, pp 17 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1604
dc.description 2007: CCCB. "Challenges of urban diversity: Inclusive cities vs divided cities". en
dc.description.abstract The utopian assumptions about the Internet and other allied Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as the harbingers of a world free of violent hierarchies have long since proved erroneous. Instead the initial idealism has been recognized as overzealous miscalculation in scholarship, software developer communities and economic development settings, alike. The initial optimism has been replaced by the stark recognition that technologies are not value-free but carry the political effects of their distributors, users and uses. As the first opening quotation of this paper, the extract from an essay by Jennifer Radloff, the co-ordinator of the Association for Progressive Communications’ Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), above, suggests, the Internet and ICTs offer both solutions and challenges. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject Information technologies en
dc.subject Communication Technologies en
dc.subject Women'sNet en
dc.subject LinuxChix en
dc.subject Empowerment en
dc.subject Socio economic development en
dc.subject Urban areas en
dc.title Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg. en
dc.type Conference Presentation en
dc.identifier.apacitation Gqola, P. (2007). Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1604 en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation Gqola, P. "Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg." (2007): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1604 en_ZA
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation Gqola P, Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg; 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1604 . en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Conference Presentation AU - Gqola, P AB - The utopian assumptions about the Internet and other allied Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as the harbingers of a world free of violent hierarchies have long since proved erroneous. Instead the initial idealism has been recognized as overzealous miscalculation in scholarship, software developer communities and economic development settings, alike. The initial optimism has been replaced by the stark recognition that technologies are not value-free but carry the political effects of their distributors, users and uses. As the first opening quotation of this paper, the extract from an essay by Jennifer Radloff, the co-ordinator of the Association for Progressive Communications’ Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), above, suggests, the Internet and ICTs offer both solutions and challenges. DA - 2007-03 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Information technologies KW - Communication Technologies KW - Women'sNet KW - LinuxChix KW - Empowerment KW - Socio economic development KW - Urban areas LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2007 T1 - Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg TI - Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1604 ER - en_ZA


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