Thursday, November 13, 2008

Week 10: Cyberfeminism

If I understand cyberfeminism correctly, it is feminism focused around a specific medium. Same divisions within feminism exist in sub-countercultures, but the core values are the same.

In the manifesto I agree with my colleagues that the goal seems to be equality at the root level. By stripping down social implications of the analog state we can become equal. I question the possibility of total equality, and instead introduce the structure of scope to the debate. Equality to what degree? Even within the digital realm there are ...

At 1:43PM an announcement just came out on vt.edu saying police responding to reports of gunfire at Pritchard Hall
I say that to document my attention shift.

Um, so I was talking about equality. The sense of equality does exist but to what degree. Even in the digital realm there are system adminstrators, super users, users, and guests. The digital realm is not compliant to feminist goals at this time, at least not in the sense of global equality. I think a more reachable goal is to ask for user class equality, but isn't that similar to what is in place in the real world? Maybe I'm reading too much into this statement, or being too literal in my interpretation of a digital (assuming online) world.

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