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Voices from digital spaces: Technology related violence against women

Katerina Fialova and Flavia Fascendini
Katerina Fialova and Flavia Fascendini on 27 March, 2012 - 15:52
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Based in Czech Republic, Katerina is GenderIT.org´s coordinator. Flavia lives in Argentina and is Spanish and Portuguese GenderIT.org editor.

Drawing on findings from APC's MDG3i: Take Back the Tech!i project with women's rightsi organisations in twelve countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America, this paper explores the links between the interneti, cell phones and violence against womeni and illustrates that technology related violence impacts women as seriously as other forms of violence.

 
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The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies

Anita Sarkeesian
Anita Sarkeesian on 7 December, 2009
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Anita Sarkeesian is a feminist cultural critic who produces an ongoing web series of video commentaries from a feminist/fangirl perspective.

This is a funky introductory video which explains the Bechdel Test or Mo Movie Test, three simple rules that make it horribly clear how absent women are on the big screen.

 
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The Global Media Monitoring Project 2010

World Association of Christian Communications (coordinator)
World Association of Christian Communications (coordinator) on 28 September, 2010
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The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) promotes communication for social change. It has corporate and personal members in 120 countries.

On 10 November 2009, the news media came under scrutiny in 108 countries. Trained volunteers from women's rightsi organizations, media professional associations, and universities monitored the representation of women and men and gender iportrayal in their local news media. The GMMP Report 2010 reveals what they found. The 2010 GMMP is the first to address women in the online news media.

 
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Comic: How we betray our gender

Gabby Schulz
Gabby Schulz on 29 October, 2010
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A fantastic comic about online sexism. Witty, creative and elegantly drawn, with comments below that prove the points made in the comic.

 
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Copyright? Copyleft? Why does it matter? An interview with Heather Ford

Mavic Cabrera-Balleza
Mavic Cabrera-Balleza on 12 April, 2009
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GenderIt writer Mavic Cabrera-Balleza interviewed Heather Ford, Founder of the African Commonsi Project, a South African NGO with the goal of mobilizing communities through active participation in collaborative technology. Ford has worked in the fields of interneti policyi, law and management in South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. She sheds light on some of these issues.
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Challenges of communal copyright: Traditional and indigenous knowledge

Sonia Randhawa
Sonia Randhawa on 9 April, 2009
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Copyrighti and patents legislation has spread rapidly over the past century. This has a particular impact on indigenous women and the holders of traditional knowledge, as copyright ignores the possibility that knowledge can be held communally and has definitions of knowledge that exclude information held in a spiritual context. In this article, GenderIT writer Sonia Randhawa examines how women's lives in traditional and indigenous societies have been affected by the spread of copyright.
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New technologies and women in Arab countries: a forest of concepts, a complex reality

Natalia Fernández-Díaz
Natalia Fernández-Díaz on 12 July, 2007 · Arab States
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Natalia Fernández-Diaz identifies the difficulties of understanding feminist concerns regarding the needs and potential benefits of emerging technologies in what is usually known as ‘Arab countries’. Locating the relationship between women and ICTs in women’s movements, Fernández-Diaz interrogates the concepts of technologists, producers, users, victims and indirect beneficiaries in this complex political, geographical and imaginary terrain.
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Where is women´s “J” spot?

María Suárez Toro
María Suárez Toro on 3 March, 2005
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As the international community prepares to join the United Nation’s 49th Session of the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW), women media practitioners are asking: where is women’s “J” spot? Despite the fact that the latform for Action (PFA) contemplates Section “J” in Chapter 3, about Women and Media, the issue is hardly found in the provisional agenda for the evaluationi process. The U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) has also ignored “Women and media” in its web page discussion topics towards the process.

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Review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action - Report of the Secretary-General

on 15 March, 2010 · Global
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DAW, CSW, Beijing +15, mdg3
The UN Secretary-General's report (E/CN.6/2010/2) in preparation for the 54th Commission on the Status of Women who undertook the 15 year review of the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (BpfA), including the section J – Women and Media. Media and ICTi are mentioned throughout the Report as important tools for awareness raising and information dissemination, for example, under the sections covering 'Education and training', 'Women and health', 'Violence against womeni', 'Human rightsi of women' and 'The girl child'.
 
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Where is Women´s “J” Spot?

María Suárez Toro
María Suárez Toro on 9 December, 2009
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As the international community prepares to join the United Nation’s 49th Session of the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW), women media practitioners are asking: where is women’s “J” spot? Commonly known as “Beijing +10,” the role of the official UN session is to evaluate what governments have done to implement the Platform for Action (PFA) of the Fourth World Conference on Women 10 years ago in Beijing, China. The review and appraisal process will take place from February 28 to March 11, 2005 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Despite the fact that the PFA contemplates Section “J” in Chapter 3, about Women and Media, the issue is hardly found in the provisional agenda for the evaluationi process.
 
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