WS205 Lecture 7: Class 7
Document Summary
Social determinants: race, gender, education, income level, social inclusion. Online harassment: most users report it happening in social networking sites, then the comment section of a website, most people ignore the incident (60% of people) Early feminist visions of the internet: hoped that people could not assume the gender of someone over the internet. Ideas that it would be a democratic space to discuss ideas. Where all people could theoretically participate equally. Feminist principles of the internet: a feminist internet works towards empowering women and queer people. Integrates differences: women and queer persons have the right to use icts and reclaim computers for themselves, governments help control internet governments. Interrogate capitalist ideas that create and continue computers: consent into cultural design, we have the right to have anonymity and reject all claims to restrict this online. Reclaim the internet: role of the police and prosecutors etc.
