Gendermediatechnology: A Journal:
Gendermediatechnology: a journal invites explorations of the complex interconnections between gender, technology and media.
History: This journal began as a project for an undergraduate communications course at York University. The course is entitled Feminism, Media and Technology, and the first issue contains the final project submissions from members of this class. Our course focus was diverse and utilized multimedia. One unifying theme was image as it intersects with gender, media and technology. We used feminism as a lens to consider these topics. Members kept a journal/scrapbook/website/blog or video journal and made weekly entries. They tried processing the course through varied mediums in these collection sites.
We created the journal, as our final project, in part to challenge ourselves to think about our relationship with the technologies of expression and how they connect to the formation of public spaces. We chose the journal format as a means to experience and learn from situating the relationship of our voice to public space(s).
The submissions here represent the broad spectrum of voices in the course. The journal certainly does not represent one unified opinion on any of its subjects. The course participants come from many diverse life experiences and had varied reactions to our material. We tried to be with one another and listen and hear each others inquiry and interests. Agreement and disagreement were certainly part of the journey. We tried to maintain our classroom space as a place democratic discourse and to value the honesty that undergirds this. This was not always comfortable, and it was work. But together we did create a place, that did allow us to explore considerable material, and to look variously at the i the intersections of gender, technology and image. These articles represent the wide range of that exploration.
History: This journal began as a project for an undergraduate communications course at York University. The course is entitled Feminism, Media and Technology, and the first issue contains the final project submissions from members of this class. Our course focus was diverse and utilized multimedia. One unifying theme was image as it intersects with gender, media and technology. We used feminism as a lens to consider these topics. Members kept a journal/scrapbook/website/blog or video journal and made weekly entries. They tried processing the course through varied mediums in these collection sites.
We created the journal, as our final project, in part to challenge ourselves to think about our relationship with the technologies of expression and how they connect to the formation of public spaces. We chose the journal format as a means to experience and learn from situating the relationship of our voice to public space(s).
The submissions here represent the broad spectrum of voices in the course. The journal certainly does not represent one unified opinion on any of its subjects. The course participants come from many diverse life experiences and had varied reactions to our material. We tried to be with one another and listen and hear each others inquiry and interests. Agreement and disagreement were certainly part of the journey. We tried to maintain our classroom space as a place democratic discourse and to value the honesty that undergirds this. This was not always comfortable, and it was work. But together we did create a place, that did allow us to explore considerable material, and to look variously at the i the intersections of gender, technology and image. These articles represent the wide range of that exploration.