• Course Code:  DOCC15

  • Term:  Self-Paced

  • Open for Enrollment

  • Self-paced

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    FemTechNet
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Collaborations in Feminism and Technology

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    Anne Balsamo
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    Lisa Nakamura
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    Sharon Irish
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    Ashley Walker
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Description

 

Welcome to Collaborations in Feminism and Technology!

 

 

Exploring the intersections of feminism, technology and culture.

This course is the foundation for a DOCC--Distributed Online Collaborative Course.

A DOCC is a collection of NODAL courses which could be a course at an educational institution or at a community location.

Students who enroll in institutional courses receive credit for participating in the DOCC nodal course.

Self-directed learners do not receive educational credit for participating in the DOCC.

 

 

Instructor Biography

 

 

Anne Balsamo - Ph.D. in Communications Research, University of Illinois

 

Anne Balsamo teaches courses in interactive media, design research, and technology and technology and culture at the University of Southern California. She holds joint appointments in the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism and in the Interactive Media Division of the School of Cinematic Arts. She serves as the Director of Emergent Technologies for the Annenberg Innovation Lab. She is also the Editor of the E-Book Series Imprint for the Annenberg Press.

 

She is a cofounder of Onomy Labs, a Silicon Valley make-tank that designs cultural technologies. From 1998-2001, she was a principal scientist at Xerox PARC where she worked as a member of the research-design group RED. Her book, Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (Duke, 1996) explored the cultural implications of emergent bio-technologies.

 

Her current area of research and design focuses on the emergent genre of new media called Public Interactive. In 2010 she received a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Start-Up grant to build a tangible interface browser for the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

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