Category: CSWS Special Projects

Shannon Elizabeth Bell Interviewed for Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead Podcast

Fembot’s February Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview couldn’t come at a more important time, especially in light of last month’s Elk River chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia.
In this BAD interview Sue Dockstader (MS, University of Oregon) talks with Shannon Bell (assistant professor, University of Kentucky), author of Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian […]

CSWS Affiliate Alisa Freedman Interviewed

Fembot’s Books Aren’t Dead (BAD) interview for December 2013 is now available on the Fembot website. In this BAD interview Kate Page-Lippsmeyer (Doctoral Candidate, University of Southern California) talks with Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, University of Oregon), coeditor of Modern Girls on the Go: Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, […]

Now Out! The Fembot Collective Focuses on Feminist Science Fiction in Ada, Issue No. 3

November 5, 2013—The Fembot Collective is delighted to announce the third issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology! This issue, “Feminist Science Fiction,” is edited by special issue editor Alexis Lothian (Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania). We invite you to read the articles at http://adanewmedia.org/.
Many thanks to the Fembot […]

How to Get Involved in Fembot

[ January 9, 2014; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Digital Scholarship Center
UO Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.

We’d like to invite you to participate in Fembot, an international network of feminist media scholars developed and managed here at the University of Oregon. In the past year, Fembot’s journal, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, has engaged in (successful!) experiments to transform peer review […]

How to Peer-Review Multimodal Content

[ January 17, 2014; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] Digital Scholarship Center
Knight Library
& via Google Hang-Out

The nature of peer review is changing, as authors experiment with new modes of knowledge production. On 17 January 2014, 1-3pm PST, the Fembot Collective will host a workshop that explores how we review and peer edit multimodal content.

The session will be led by Alex Juhasz (Pitzer College, issued […]

Now Out! The Fembot Collective Focuses on Feminist Game Studies in Ada, Issue No. 2

June 1, 2013—The Fembot Collective is delighted to announce the second issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology! This issue, “Feminist Game Studies,” is edited by Nina Huntemann (Suffolk University) and features articles by Audrey Anable (University of Toronto), Kishonna L. Gray (Eastern Kentucky University), and Alex Layne & Samantha Blackmon […]