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autonomous
media camp
/ mediencamp karlsplatz
participation
in a discursive investigation
produced
by
public netbase, public
voice lab,
ig kultur wien, malmoe, radio
orange
vienna 2003
woman
and computer
autonomous media camp (8)
27 / 08 /
03
dieter
schrage, moderation
alexandra reill, media producer
audio
file: woman and computer
MP3 (60:25, 112kbps)
in form of a discursive investigation the positioning of women in the context of computer production, it-business, software development in relation to technical talent and the interest in technical developments, embedded in a male-dominated world of industry and production, was researched. free access to equipment and training was one of the major demands raised.
another
conclusion was that women - if it is true that classical strength of a
majority of women still lies in social skills - do not
have the chance to integrate more intuitive or emotional
approaches into the development of software and technolical
tools as the digital technologies as such are based on purely
rational approaches - could have a better chance to integrate
their social skills - which might be a very practical step not consuming
so much negatively connotated energy than
continously having to lead a fight for their right to be
respected as fully autonomous and responsible individuals,
which still most of the time is not given, and thus maybe representing
a constructive step to finally gain this right
in the long run.
as a consequence, further integration of women into leading positions as well as enhancing the importance of their social skills and talents within it-developments - an approach which in the it world is still very unusual - could lead to more human and social-oriented purposes of software products and it applications.
a list of relevant literature shall be citated to provide further information on the theme:
o
Women Undergraduate Enrollment in Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science at MIT (Final Report of the EECS Women Undergraduate
Enrollment Committee)
o Leveson, Nancy. Educational Pipeline Issues for Women.
Computing Research News, October 1990 and January 1991.
o Pearl, Amy, Martha E. Pollack, Eve Riskin, Becky Thomas, Elizabeth
Wolf, and Alice Wu. Becoming a Computer Scientist. Communications
of the ACM, 33(11) (November 1990).
o Frenkel, Karen A. Women and computing. Communications
of the ACM, 33(11) (November 1990).
o Strok, Dale. Women in AI. IEEE Expert, 7(4) (August
1992).
o Cottrell, Janet. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: A Consideration
of Women and Computing (PDF). *
*list
citated from:
http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/Gender/gender.html
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media - unfree media
autonomous media camp (10)
10 / 09 / 03
fiona
steinert, radio orange
gerhard gutschi, radioATTAC
ralph leonhard, TAZ
alexandra reill, media producer
sebastian reinfeldt, communication & politics
helga koecher, moderation
audio
file: free - unfree media
MP3 (118:20, 112kbps)
•
what is meant by 'free media'?
what makes media free?
• which role does finance play in this context? whose money? on
the basis of which agreement?
• which role does participation play in this context?
• who participates and why? do people want to participate?
• who takes which responsibility?
• how are themes positioned in different media?
• how do free media, public and commercial media comply with each
other in regard to the positioning of themes, in how far are they conform?
• are there themes that are tabooed in all kinds of media? why?
• what are the conditions for quality productions?
• in how far does the quality of media products contribute to critical
political consciousness?
during
the summer 2003, the autonomous media camp invited a variety of culture
workers and political thinkers to investigate the inner contents of
the critical approach of the media camp organizers in regard to the
political attitudes of austrian and viennese politicians concerned with
contemporary cultural and media production.
audio
file: woman and computer
MP3 (60:25, 112kbps)
audio
file: free - unfree media
MP3 (118:20, 112kbps)
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