Projects tagged "new media activism"

The Participatory Condition
Practitioner:
Media@McGill, N. Katherine Hayles, Bernard Stiegler, Kate Crawford, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Geert Lovink, T. L. Taylor, Jillian York, Christopher Soghoian
Date:
Nov 15 2013
Media@McGill will be hosting The Participatory Condition, an International Colloquium, which will be held in Montreal at the Musée d’art contemporain (MAC) on November 15 and 16, 2013. The Colloquium’s main objective is to assess the role of media in the development of a principle whose expansion has become so large as to become the condition of our contemporaneity.
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Write(H)ers: Duke University Equips Feminist Activists
Practitioner:
Duke Women's Center Director Ada Gregory and Write(H)ers
Date:
Feb 2 2013
A new media activism program at Duke University was started this year with the aim of helping young womeen excel in blogging about gender issues. The feminist-oriented program is called Write(H)ers and was created by Duke senior, Samantha Lachman and Women's Center Director Ada Gregory. The 23 women involved in the program will meet professional journalists at workshops centered around blogging and gender issues on campus and abroad.
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