Dear All, You might find this sister-publication of Info-Cache useful. FYI. Mari ======================================== The online version of Women in Action No. 1, 2004, issue on "Corporatised Media and ICT Structures and Systems" is now available at <http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/index.html>. The print edition will be off the press by the end of August 2004. Women in Action No. 1, 2004 Theme: Corporatised Media and ICT Structures and Systems Editorial: For Whom Media Speaks: The Paucity of Today's ICT Explosion http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/editorial.htm Globalisation and Media: Making Feminist Sense By Susanna George Locates recent developments in media—the fantabulous business mergers, the permeation of advertising in all of human activity, the ringside view of the Iraq war—within the overall struggle against patriarchy. http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/susanna.htm IT in India: Social Revolution or Approaching Implosion? By Kalyani Menon-Sen Warns against the dangers posed by the IT Revolution including the numbers of women employed in call centres face—their unused college education, abnormal working hours and consequently, compromised human interaction and relationships. http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/kalyani.htm When Technology, Media and Globalisation Conspire: Old Threats, New Prospects By Anita Gurumurthy Speaks about the downsides of globalised ICTs and the actions that must be taken to counter these. http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/anita1.htm False and Real Differences:Alternative and Mainstream Media in Latin America By Maria Suárez Toro and Margaret Thompson Relates how a women's organisation seized the potential of modern ICTs, introduced webcasts of its community radio programmes and captured a market—of women and men—looking for information other than that provided by mainstream media. http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/maria.htm Choices We (Must) Make For Ourselves: Women and Transnational Media By Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki Analyses the methods of exclusion employed by the major media establishments—whether those supportive of America's agenda against the Muslim world, or those that seek to perpetuate the traditional, one-dimensional representations of Arab and Muslim women. http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/muthoni.htm Media and ICT Systems, Globalisation, Militarism and Fundamentalisms By Anuradha M. Chenoy Dissects how media and ICTs are being used in India by nationalist groups to push their fundamentalist and militarist agenda. Such "virtual recruitment" of foot soldiers perpetuates not only women's subordination but also the ruling elite's strategic political control. http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/anuradha.htm Knowledge Economy: Does It Come with a Knowledge Society? By Anita Gurumurthy Presents the irony of a "knowledge society" in a context where ICTs are galloping but one-third of the population is illiterate and knowledge remains controlled by a few http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/anita2.htm Recalling the Past, Looking to the Future By Marilee Karl Explores the changes—big and small—brought about by the women's movement's use of various communication technologies to forward gender equality; and identifies the issues that have fallen in the wayside http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/marilee.htm Common Agenda, Different Methods: Women's Use of ICTs in Conflict Situations By Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng Examines how ICTs became a vehicle in Uganda for putting women's agenda on the international negotiating tables http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/ruth.htm WILMA: Making a Difference By Rhona O. Bauista Describes the making of an ICT application that preserves information resources useful to women's movements and links feminists, activists and the public, with or without Internet connectivity http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/rhona.htm For more information, please write to us at Media, Information and Communications Programme Isis International-Manila 3 Marunong St., Bgy Central, Quezon City 1100, Philippines Fax: (63-2) 924 1065 E-mail: communications@isiswomen.org MARI M. SANTIAGO Associate - Information, Documentation and Resources Programme Isis International-Manila P.O. Box 1837 Quezon City Main, Quezon City 1100 Philippines Tel: (632) 928-1956 Fax:(632) 924-1065 E-mail:mari@isiswomen.org Website: www.isiswomen.org "To create, one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of thought, feeling, action and reaction, and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion & meaning." - ESTES, Women who Run with the Wolves ========== HURIDOCS-Tech listserv ========== Send mail intended for the list to <huridocs-tech@hrea.org>. Archives of the list can be found at: http://www.hrea.org/lists/huridocs-tech/markup/maillist.php To subscribe to the list, send a message to <majordomo@hrea.org>, with the following text in the message: subscribe huridocs-tech To unsubscribe from the list, send a message to <majordomo@hrea.org>, with the following text in the message: unsubscribe huridocs-tech If you have problems (un)subscribing, contact <owner-huridocs-tech@hrea.org>.
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