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#accordingToTheInternet: Made For Women - Learn how anyone can reclaim the internet as an inclusive cultural space #179

Open mozfest-bot opened 6 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 6 years ago

[ UUID ] c0b1ca25-efb1-41e5-b568-d3db9b685fa8

[ Session Name ] #accordingToTheInternet: Made For Women - Learn how anyone can reclaim the internet as an inclusive cultural space [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Web Literacy

[ Submitter's Name ] Gretchen Andrew [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Gretchen Andrew Art [ Submitter's GitHub ] @gretchenandrew

What will happen in your session?

AccordingToTheInternet:

Amazon is a company

Cherokee is a car

Citizen is a watch brand

It isn’t that the internet is incorrect in returning these results, but that in doing so it tells us something essential about the way the internet works and who is more likely to benefit: products > people.

With the sexualized female body a commodity for consumption, such a structure disproportionally hurts women.

This workshop deploys its participants in the active modification of how and by whom women are represented online. Participants will learn how search engines work and together we will make a more inclusive internet by replacing the anti-feminist images that currently represent women online with images selected by those within the session.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

  1. Increase internet literacy as it pertains to search engines, internet authority and the impact of corporately controlled search engines on internet content and visibility.

  2. Increased participation in making a more diverse and inclusive internet.

  3. Retained search engine optimization skills with an understanding of how these skills can be used by communities and cultures instead of just companies and commerce.

  4. Changed represented of women surfacing within search engines.

  5. New community of content creators reversing the slowly commercial-first preference of search engines.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Request that attendees bring a personal device, but possible to actively participate without one.

Time needed

60 mins

gretchenandrew commented 6 years ago

I spoke with @mozfest-bot Amira on how I work within digital inclusion and web literacy in this interview: https://medium.com/read-write-participate/this-artists-paintings-are-making-the-internet-more-open-and-equal-2c9b4340f08c

amirad commented 6 years ago

So much yes to this being a session at Mozfest!!!! This work has been so fun and critical to engaging people in a unique way and through art to get to the core of our issues!

Saallen commented 6 years ago

cc @moz-ex

gretchenandrew commented 6 years ago

I want to clarify that the session is an active hacking session. Participants will create along on their own devices as we code, add metadata, deconstruct and reconstruct information online in a way that speaks directly to search engines. Participants will learn about and use XML sitemaps, HTML, tagging, SEO, link building and information theory to change the visible internet that currently represents women in a discriminatory way. Participants will write their own code, make their own sites, and contribute to a grass-roots change.

Carotejada commented 6 years ago

Really cool proposal @gretchenandrew, thank you for submitting.

gretchenandrew commented 6 years ago

Thank you @Carotejada - just to give some more information,

Goals & Learning takeaways: