
Feminist Internet Research Network
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Feminist internet ethical research practices
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[Research] Brazilian feminist responses to online hate speech: Seeing online violence through an intersectional lens
Feminist talk
How Platform Design Shapes Working Conditions in India: A Case Study Of Urban Company
Conversations about service delivery apps are usually centred around how customers experience these apps, but rarely do these discussions explore and examine the conditions service providers work in. The study by The Centre for Internet & Society analyses one platform, Urban Company, in India for its treatment of domestic workers who register on the app to provide services on the company's...
Feminist talk
Connecting reflections through a community network's experience in Brazil
Community networks in quilombolas from Terra Seca/Ribeirão Grande in Brazil have been helping households to connect to the internet while serving individual needs of residents. In the backdrop of the FIRN research exploring the same, the authors discuss how these community-led networks connect communities with technology.
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White paper on feminist internet research
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Feminist Internet Research Network: Meta-research project report
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Discussing Ethics of Care, Intersectionality and Power Dynamics in the Feminist Research Work
When conducting feminist research, it is important to acknowledge various intersectionalities, as well as ethics of care, challenges and all the dynamic interconnections in the process. The FIRN partners explore these themes in their research through the years.
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[Research] Designing Domestic Work Platforms in India
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Sharing human and internet bandwidth of a community network in the middle of a pandemic
In Vale do Ribeira, São Paulo, Brazil, a group of ecological, quilombola farmer women, in partnership with two feminist organisations: APC and Sempreviva Organização Feminista (SOF), managed to deploy and operate their Wi-Fi mesh network. Bruna Zanolli highlights the importance of building trust, empathy and feminist guidelines in the community so that their internet infrastructure could...
Feminist talk
EROTICS Regional Survey learnings (2): understanding access and expression, and negotiating differences
Srinidhi Raghavan, coordinator of the EROTICS Regional Survey 2020, shares her learnings from cross-country feminist research on internet and sexuality through the lens of the Feminist Principles of the Internet.