Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/California State University, Fullerton/Gender and Technoculture (Spring 2015)/Course description

Gender and technology inflect, shape, and delimit each other in surprising, provocative and fascinating ways. In this course we will be looking at these inter-relationships and we will be interrogating the ways in which these may shape and delimit our ability to work, play, and create with technological forms. We will be asking questions such as: How do popular narratives of technology’s origins shape our understanding of it?; What is the relationship between the corporeal body and the much-lauded virtual body of cyberspace?; In what ways might governmental and other efforts toward “warranting” virtual bodies have a chilling effect on the Internet and other technologies of communication?; How might the truth-value of images and other texts be affected by editing programs such as Photoshop; What might new technologies of visibility have to tell us about understanding “Otherness” in a globalizing world?; And, how might technologies like Wikipedia inform and intervene in traditional knowledge-making practices.

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