Weapons of Magic: Afghan Women Asserting Voice via the Net

Bickel, Beverly

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2003.tb00204.x

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“…First, digital counter-publics are seen as forming through the practices of alternative online media sites, social movement digital initiatives and subaltern online spaces, by means of e-mail lists, websites, and digital audio and video. Examples pointed to in the counter-publics literature, and also clearly observable as counter-public, include: the anti-globalism (or alter-globalization) movement, supported by the Indymedia network (Downey and Fenton, 2003: 186-187;Langman, 2005), the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan (Bickel, 2003), South Asian Women's Network (Mitra, 2004), movie discussion lists in China (Zhang, 2006), the Zapitistas (Kowal, 2002), refugee groups (Siapera, 2004), 'right to die' advocates (McDorman, 2001), sars.org's countering of government and news media representations of SARS (Gillet, 2007), and Aotearoa Café. Aotearoa Café, for example, offers online discussion spaces that take seriously reasoning based on Maori spirituality, language, myth, tradition and sovereignty claims, reasoning that is largely ignored in New Zealand's officially democratic mainstream public sphere.…”

Section: Counter-publics Digital Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…6. For commentary on digital democracy where a counter-publics position can be clearly found articulated, see Bickel (2003), Dahlberg (2007aDahlberg ( , 2007b, Dahlgren (2007), Downey and Fenton (2003), Gallo (2003), Gillet (2007), Kellner (2005, 2007), Kowal (2002), Langman (2005), McDorman ( 2001), Palczewski (2001), Ramírez de la Piscina ( 2006), Salazar (2003), Warf and Grimes (1997), Wimmer (2008), andZhang (2006). 7.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four ‘positions’

Dahlberg

2011

New Media & Society

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There is currently a diversity of understandings of digital democracy being deployed within popular commentary, research, policy making, and practical initiative. However, there is a lack of resources clearly outlining this diversity; this article undertakes such an outline. It provides a reconstruction of four digital democracy positions. These four positions are referred to here as liberal-individualist, deliberative, counter-publics, and autonomist Marxist. The delineation of each position draws from critical-interpretative research and has been developed with respect to three elements: the democratic subject assumed, the related conception of democracy promoted, and the associated democratic affordances of digital media technology. The aim is to draw attention to different understandings of what extending democracy through digital media means, and to provide a framework for further examination and evaluation of digital democracy rhetoric and practice.

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Section: Counter-publics Digital Democracymentioning

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Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four ‘positions’

Dahlberg

2011

New Media & Society

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“…VSD takes the position that certain values are universally held, but that the ways that these values play out in different cultures vary widely. Yet, as we discuss in more detail later, claims of universality for values are enormously problematic [11,25,61]. At the same time, a position of cultural relativism is problematic as well [37,38,71].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Next steps for value sensitive design

Borning

Müller

2012

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Questions of human values often arise in HCI research and practice. Such questions can be difficult to address well, and a principled approach can clarify issues of both theory and practice. One such approach is Value Sensitive Design (VSD), an established theory and method for addressing issues of values in a systematic and principled fashion in the design of information technology. In this essay, we suggest however that the theory and at times the presentation of VSD overclaims in a number of key respects, with the result of inhibiting its more widespread adoption and appropriation. We address these issues by suggesting four topics for next steps in the evolution of VSD: (1) tempering VSD's position on universal values; (2) contextualizing existing and future lists of values that are presented as heuristics for consideration; (3) strengthening the voice of the participants in publications describing VSD investigations; and (4) making clearer the voice of the researchers. We propose new or altered approaches for VSD that address these issues of theory, voice, and reportage.

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“…Political engagement of Afghani women facilitated by the use of websites (i.e., www.rawa.org) is another focus of research. 15 All these studies share one characteristic: they suggest that online environments, be they blogs, websites or discussion lists, are a space where Muslim women discuss two parallel discourses that attempt to control them; one is a mutation of the Orientalist representation which builds on the stereotype of backward, subservient, uneducated women of the East who, in the eyes of the West, must be protected from their men and their religion which is the fundamental cause of their subservience. 16 Religious women, who argue that Islam is central to their lives, are seen as willing accomplices in their own victimisation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim Women's Online Discussions of Gender Relations in Islam

Piela¹

2010

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs

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This paper analyses debates of Muslim women who discuss gender relations in Islam in English-speaking women-only online groups. My focus is particularly on Muslim women's engagement with Islamic sources on the levels of existing interpretations and women's own readings. There is a diversity of views on different points and women expertly refer to the Qur'an and to the Prophetic traditions to support their respective positions. I argue that this variety of discourses is characteristic for Muslim women who have engaged with the concept of gender relations in Islam since the emergence of Islam. Finally, as this activity takes place online, the role of the Internet is considered in terms of facilitation of production of women's Islamic discourses. An examination of interactions between the women reveals fundamentally new patterns, specific to the online environments. Whereas Muslim women professing different views on gender relations in Islam tend not to engage in dialogue with each other in the off-line world, they participate in a common online debate which is more likely to result in shared understandings.

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Weapons of Magic: Afghan Women Asserting Voice via the Net

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four ‘positions’

Re-constructing digital democracy: An outline of four ‘positions’

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Muslim Women's Online Discussions of Gender Relations in Islam

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