FemTechNet

The network began in Southern California in 2012 with Anne Balsamo and Alexandra Juhasz as co-founders and co-facilitators. FemTechNet describes itself as “an activated network of scholars, artists and students who work on, with, and at the borders of technology, science and feminism in a variety of fields including STS, Media and Visual Studies, Art, Women's, Queer and Ethnic Studies.”{{cite web |url=http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/the-network/ |title=About FemTechNet |publisher=FemTechNet Commons |access-date=2013-11-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113040131/http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/the-network/ |archive-date=2013-11-13 |url-status=dead }} In a peer-reviewed concept paper, the founders more concretely described the project as one of interdisciplinary community building.{{Cite journal|last1=Juhasz|first1=Alexandra|last2=Balsamo|first2=Anne|last3=Juhasz|first3=Alexandra|last4=Balsamo|first4=Anne|date=2012-11-01|title=An Idea Whose Time is Here: FemTechNet – A Distributed Online Collaborative Course (DOCC)|url=http://adanewmedia.org/2012/11/issue1-juhasz/|journal=Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology|language=en-US|issue=1|doi=10.7264/N3MW2F2J|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |issn=2325-0496|access-date=2013-11-19|archive-date=2013-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131117101531/http://adanewmedia.org/2012/11/issue1-juhasz/|url-status=dead}}

Distributed open collaborative courses (DOCC), FemTechNet's primary initiative, uses networked technologies in many innovative ways, including developing “nodal” classes around shared themes that are augmented by video discussions available on FemTechNet's website by participating university instructors. The first DOCC, "Dialogues in Feminism and Technology,"{{cite news|last=Naili|first=Hajer|title=Feminists Launch Model for Online Learning|url=http://womensenews.org/story/education/130814/feminists-launch-model-online-learning|newspaper=Women's eNews|date=August 15, 2013}} was initiated in 2013 as for-credit courses at the following institutions:

• Rutgers University
• The New School
• CUNY
• University of California at San Diego
• University of Illinois
• Ohio State University
• Bowling Green State University
• Pitzer College
• Colby-Sawyer College
• Penn State University
• California Polytechnic University
• Ontario College of Art and Design
• Brown University
• Yale University
• California State University, Fullerton

Non-traditional students take the course via the FTN website's free, self-directed learner component.{{cite web|last=Enlow |first=Callie |url=http://sacurrent.com/news/femtechnet-hopes-to-revolutionize-sa-s-higher-education-possibilities-1.1553684 |title=FemTechNet Hopes to Revolutionize SA's Higher Education Possibilities |work=San Antonio Current |date=September 18, 2013 |access-date=2013-11-26}} In 2014 - 2015 the second Distributed Open Collaborative Course (DOCC) series was offered at the following nodes.[http://femtechnet.org/docc/previous-seasons/2013-2014/nodes/ 2013–2014 DOCC Nodes]. Femtechnet.org. Retrieved on 2016-05-29.

In 2013 FemTechNet launched "Storming Wikipedia", which aimed to encourage students to engage in Wikipedia editing. Described as a response to Wikipedia's gender imbalance,{{cite news|url=https://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/08/storming-wikipedia-women-problem-internet|title=Can These Students Fix Wikipedia's Lady Problem?|author=Liss-Schultz, Nina |date=August 23, 2013|publisher=Mother Jones|access-date=October 24, 2013}} the assignment is also used to highlight "the significant contributions of feminists to technology".{{cite web|last=Naili |first=Hajer |url=https://womensenews.org/2013/08/feminists-launch-model-online-learning/#.Ug3Uvm2BaZS |title=Feminists Launch Model for Online Learning |publisher=Women's ENews |date=August 15, 2013 |access-date=January 26, 2018}} "Wikistorming" got the attention of mainstream media networks, including a story by Fox News and CampusReform.org, which derisively framed the effort as counter-factual.{{cite web |title=Wikistorming: Colleges offer credit to inject feminism into Wikipedia |url=https://www.foxnews.com/tech/wikistorming-colleges-offer-credit-to-inject-feminism-into-wikipedia/ |website=Fox News |publisher=NewsCorp |access-date=6 September 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119015824/http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/09/06/wikistorming-colleges-offer-credit-to-corrupt-wikipedia.html |archive-date=19 November 2015}}

• Cyberfeminism
• Feminist technoscience
• Networked feminism

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130808062222/http://femtechnet.newschool.edu/ FemTechNet] (Old Site)
• [http://femtechnet.org/ FemTechNet] (New site)
• [http://femtechnet.org/about-the-network/manifesto/ "We Are FemTechNet"] (Group Manifesto)
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20141016103559/http://femtechnet.org/about-the-network/technical-report/ Technical Report on the DOCC]
• [http://fembotcollective.org/femtechnet/faq-for-femtechnet/ FAQ for FemTechNet] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203032640/http://fembotcollective.org/femtechnet/faq-for-femtechnet/ |date=2013-12-03 }}
• [http://connectedcourses.net/event/unit-4-class-3-teaching-wikipedia-editing Connected Courses, Unit 4, Class 3: Teaching Wikipedia Editing]

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