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Las fotos de perfil que se actualizan en las redes sociales y los comentarios que se reciben de personas “amigos” conocidos y no conocidos ¿deben ser consideradas acoso o no? ¡A debatir sobre las relaciones de género en el espacio virtual!

El debate sobre el acoso callejero volvió a los muros de Facebook: memes donde se critica la “exageración” de las mujeres ante los comentarios como “guapa” o “mamacita”; predicciones sobre el fin de la especie a falta de frases románticas dichas por los hombres para conquistar; dichos como “adiós al romanticismo de barrio”; a los taxistas coquetos que se creían el taxista de la canción de Ricardo Arjona; adiós a los romeos de las obras de construcción.

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'Interpreting the internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America by Elisabeth Jay Friedman looks at a decade long engagement of feminist and women's movements with technology. Alan Finlay reviews the book for GenderIT, and finds it to be essential reading for anyone interested in how feminist (or any) counterpublics are formed and shaped by appropriating whatever technology is available. The book is essential reading for those new to Latin American feminism, and also relevant to feminists seeking to contextualise the work they do online.

Feminists immersed in diverse technologies (collage): Original artwork by Flavia Fascendini

Interpreting the internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America by Elisabeth Jay Friedman is a grounded and well thought-out book.

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'Interpreting the internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America by Elisabeth Jay Friedman looks at a decade long engagement of feminist and women's movements with technology. Alan Finlay reviews the book for GenderIT, and finds it to be essential reading for anyone interested in how feminist (or any) counterpublics are formed and shaped by appropriating whatever technology is available. The book is essential reading for those new to Latin American feminism, and also relevant to feminists seeking to contextualise the work they do online.

Feminists immersed in diverse technologies (collage): Original artwork by Flavia Fascendini

Interpreting the internet: Feminist and Queer Counterpublics in Latin America by Elisabeth Jay Friedman is a grounded and well thought-out book.

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While Chelsea Manning has been pardoned by the Obama administration, there are still many political prisoners facing incarceration and lengthy trials for their exercise of freedom of expression and for whistle blowing. Very few countries have enacted laws that protect whistle blowers. Mallory Knodel writes about the benefit fundraiser to welcome home Chelsea Manning that took place at the Internet Freedom Festival 2017 in Valencia, Spain, and reflects on the many others who face similar charges around the world.

For international women’s day, some human rights and technology groups threw a benefit party for Chelsea Manning in Valencia, Spain as part of the annual Internet Freedom Festival. Chelsea Manning is an important activist in internet freedom for using the online platform Wikileaks to inform the world about classified US documents revealing corruption and civilian casualties. She was recently pardoned for blowing the whistle in 2010 on the Iraq War, which then ended in 2011.

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While Chelsea Manning has been pardoned by the Obama administration, there are still many political prisoners facing incarceration and lengthy trials for their exercise of freedom of expression and for whistle blowing. Very few countries have enacted laws that protect whistle blowers. Mallory Knodel writes about the benefit fundraiser to welcome home Chelsea Manning that took place at the Internet Freedom Festival 2017 in Valencia, Spain, and reflects on the many others who face similar charges around the world.

For international women’s day, some human rights and technology groups threw a benefit party for Chelsea Manning in Valencia, Spain as part of the annual Internet Freedom Festival. Chelsea Manning is an important activist in internet freedom for using the online platform Wikileaks to inform the world about classified US documents revealing corruption and civilian casualties. She was recently pardoned for blowing the whistle in 2010 on the Iraq War, which then ended in 2011.

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Technomagical Fires to warm your hearts: IFF podcast

At the Internet Freedom Festival, Jac sm Kee interviews four amazing feminists from Latin America.

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Technomagical Fires to warm your hearts: IFF podcast

At the Internet Freedom Festival, Jac sm Kee interviews four amazing feminists from Latin America.

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At the Internet Freedom Festival, Jac sm Kee interviews four amazing feminists from Latin America.

• Carla from Brazil, volunteers at Marialab and Vedetas
• Geisa Santos from Periféricas
• Fernanda, also with Marialab and Vedetas
• Nadege, located between Spain and Mexico, and part of Kéfir

They had organised a session at the Internet Freedom Festival titled Gender Inclusive: from the ground to the cloud.

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OTT services have become the main entry point to the Internet for most users in the prepaid mobile environment that characterises most African markets. To entice price-sensitive users and to encourage new Internet users, the availability of subsidised data – whether discounted or free – prompts questions of how Internet access and use are affected. Does it enable access to the Internet for first-time users? Does it improve the intensity of use, allowing people to explore the Internet without concerns of cost? Does it lock people into pared-down versions of social networking platforms?

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¿La idea de una internet libre para la expresión de todos y todas es solo una fantasía febril o ya no hay vuelta atrás en su consagración como plataforma de control patriarcal? La decisión de una jueza al sur del mundo, en Paraguay, brinda pistas de una discusión global y urgente.

A principios de febrero la comunicadora Karen Ovando dio a conocer el contenido de un chat grupal en Facebook al que fue incorporada por algunos de sus integrantes. En ese grupo leyó una serie de mensajes misóginos y lesbofóbicos, donde incluso se hablaba de violarla para “corregir” (!) su sexualidad.

Feminist talk Co-author:  Francisco Vera Hott

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¿La idea de una internet libre para la expresión de todos y todas es solo una fantasía febril o ya no hay vuelta atrás en su consagración como plataforma de control patriarcal? La decisión de una jueza al sur del mundo, en Paraguay, brinda pistas de una discusión global y urgente.

A principios de febrero la comunicadora Karen Ovando dio a conocer el contenido de un chat grupal en Facebook al que fue incorporada por algunos de sus integrantes. En ese grupo leyó una serie de mensajes misóginos y lesbofóbicos, donde incluso se hablaba de violarla para “corregir” (!) su sexualidad.

Feminist talk Co-author:  Francisco Vera Hott

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¿Cómo se resuelve el acceso a materiales académicos relevantes, buena parte de ellos cercados por las políticas de journals y editoriales científicas? Las mujeres participan de iniciativas de acceso abierto al conocimiento que interpelan a un sistema de mercado que traba la libre circulación de investigaciones, papers y saberes.

Las comparaciones pueden ser odiosas: a menudo reducen fenómenos complejos a una simple contrastación de rasgos. Así, por ejemplo, Ars Technica titulaba una nota sobre Alexandra Elbakyan como "Un sucesor espiritual de Aaron Swartz está enojando a los editores de nuevo".

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¿Cómo se resuelve el acceso a materiales académicos relevantes, buena parte de ellos cercados por las políticas de journals y editoriales científicas? Las mujeres participan de iniciativas de acceso abierto al conocimiento que interpelan a un sistema de mercado que traba la libre circulación de investigaciones, papers y saberes.

Las comparaciones pueden ser odiosas: a menudo reducen fenómenos complejos a una simple contrastación de rasgos. Así, por ejemplo, Ars Technica titulaba una nota sobre Alexandra Elbakyan como "Un sucesor espiritual de Aaron Swartz está enojando a los editores de nuevo".

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An interview with Helen Nyinakiiza, who has recently joined Association for Progressive Communication as an individual member. Helen is a passionate digital security trainer, and in this interview she talks about the use of technology and internet rights in Uganda, the digital divide around gender and region, and how she does her trainings.

Helen Nyinakiiza (right), aside from being a digital security trainer, also works in an education project for orphans in Iganga district in Eastern Uganda.

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An interview with Helen Nyinakiiza, who has recently joined Association for Progressive Communication as an individual member. Helen is a passionate digital security trainer, and in this interview she talks about the use of technology and internet rights in Uganda, the digital divide around gender and region, and how she does her trainings.

Helen Nyinakiiza (right), aside from being a digital security trainer, also works in an education project for orphans in Iganga district in Eastern Uganda.

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Online harassment has taken various forms on the internet, including doxxing, intimate violence, stalking and so on. In this article, Part 2 of the series, Maya Ganesh explores a different way of thinking through this contemporary phenomenon by using an approach that emphasises 'design-thinking'. Possibilities that are explored include whether the system or platform can predict or respond to interactions that are escalating. However we also need to acknowledge that design, no matter how good, cannot solve social problems or harassment, but can be part of how we deal with it.

Collage with statute La Pensadora (Thinking Woman) by José Luis Fernández in Spain

The ‘Architectures of Online Harassment’ was the first in a two-part post that described the context and motivations of Tactical Tech’s work addressing the problem of online harassment through the lens of interface design. In this second post, I describe the results and outcomes of the workshop developed by Caroline Sinders and myself.

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Online harassment has taken various forms on the internet, including doxxing, intimate violence, stalking and so on. In this article, Part 2 of the series, Maya Ganesh explores a different way of thinking through this contemporary phenomenon by using an approach that emphasises 'design-thinking'. Possibilities that are explored include whether the system or platform can predict or respond to interactions that are escalating. However we also need to acknowledge that design, no matter how good, cannot solve social problems or harassment, but can be part of how we deal with it.

Collage with statute La Pensadora (Thinking Woman) by José Luis Fernández in Spain

The ‘Architectures of Online Harassment’ was the first in a two-part post that described the context and motivations of Tactical Tech’s work addressing the problem of online harassment through the lens of interface design. In this second post, I describe the results and outcomes of the workshop developed by Caroline Sinders and myself.

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We can no longer ignore the pervasive datafication of our lives - the ways in which our habits, illness, abilities, relations are abstracted, and our bodies made into data by an intersecting range of institutions and processes. In this article, the gendered, sexualised and racialised nature of surveillance is unpacked, so we maintain a focus on the power relations involved. Surveillance affects racialised groups, the gender non-conforming, people with disabilities, and other marginalised populations disproportionately.

Original design by Paru Ramesh

The work of caring and writing about sexual surveillance elicits occasional productive puzzlement over its precise meaning. Questions usually boil down to versions of —

• What is sexual surveillance?
• What is sexual about surveillance?
• We are all under surveillance, why make it about _______?
  • ◻ sex?
  • ◻ gender?

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We can no longer ignore the pervasive datafication of our lives - the ways in which our habits, illness, abilities, relations are abstracted, and our bodies made into data by an intersecting range of institutions and processes. In this article, the gendered, sexualised and racialised nature of surveillance is unpacked, so we maintain a focus on the power relations involved. Surveillance affects racialised groups, the gender non-conforming, people with disabilities, and other marginalised populations disproportionately.

Original design by Paru Ramesh

The work of caring and writing about sexual surveillance elicits occasional productive puzzlement over its precise meaning. Questions usually boil down to versions of —

• What is sexual surveillance?
• What is sexual about surveillance?
• We are all under surveillance, why make it about _______?
  • ◻ sex?
  • ◻ gender?

Feminist talk

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