Feminist Encounters with Wikipedia

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 7:00 p.m.
Wollman Hall (Room B500, 5th floor)
65 West 11th Street
New York, NY 10003

This event is free and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be available.

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This panel will address systemic gaps in participation in editing Wikipedia, where the editor base is currently 87% male. Unsurprisingly, consistent underrepresentation is also reflected in content and coverage throughout the digital cultural archive. Recent feminist initiatives have garnered much coverage and attention in countering these proven biases. Results of these efforts have built significant entry points for engaging Wikipedia practically and critically. In addition to reporting on the quantitative aspects of these successes, this panel will explore potentially unexpected questions around digital labor, intersectionality and sustainability that emerge in designing feminist encounters with Wikipedia. Panelists will include:

Anne Balsamo, Dean of School of Media Studies at The New School for Public Engagement

Marcea Decker, Master’s Candidate in Parsons The New School for Design’s MS Design and Urban Ecologies program

Dorothy Howard, former Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Metropolitan New York Library Council and co-organizer of Art+Feminism campaign

Antoinette LaFarge, Professor of Art in Digital Media at University of California, Irvine

Veronica Paredes (moderator), Lecturer at School of Media Studies and PhD Candidate in Media Arts+Practice at University of Southern California