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Net2Con: Gender and the Social Web: New Tools, Same...Stuff?

Christine said something like, "When you visit a website do you ever think about what you allowed to do on the site?"  She points to how gender does it translate gender representation?

I think this a good question I haven't thought about before.   How do women interact in person?  What are those customs that we use?  Are those represented in online communication models?

I dream up a mom/woman specific operating system from time to time and it often is framed in my social experience as a woman/mom.

What I dream...

You organize things in rooms.  You assign a room to each person in your family.  Mom's room, daughter's room, the cat's litter box, a living room, dining room, and a patio.  Each of those places represented by the OS have objects that we often use - a fridge for keeping recipies, shopping lists; a television where we keep tags of items we want to return to later for entertainment purposes; a closet to bury my mall wishlist.

Let me brainstorm what an online activist version of this dream may be...

 

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