Wikipedia:Meetup/FemTechNet/USC

Edit-a-thon info

Date: Thursday, January 29th & Thursday, Feb 5th
Time: 2:30-3:50 p.m. PT (1/29) & 1:00-3:50 p.m. PT (2/5)
Location: Face-to-face class session held at University of Southern California.
Event: A seminar / edit-a-thon! Students in Vicki Callahan's "New Media For Social Change" class in the Media Arts + Practice program at the University of Southern California
Course Description: This course focuses on using digital tools for social change in our highly mediated, globally connected world. The course fulfills the Diversity Requirement by considering the ways in which race and gender function in the world, how these issues are mapped onto digital space and, finally, the possibilities for intervention using digital media.

This semester our focus will be on issues of gender and sexual equality with special attention to feminist media praxis. Our community partner for this course will be the feminist technology and education collaborative group, FemTechNet (http://femtechnet.org). Our projects will focus on issues of representation, women media makers, and alternative strategies for storytelling and writing history. We will begin with the reclaiming of women’s media history via “wikistorming” activity and conclude by developing a cross-platform story employing “speculative fiction” or counter-histories of gender representation.

Hashtag: #FemTechNet #DOCC14

Preparation

Preparation: Students/ participants should create an account at least by the 2/5 session, look through the suggested readings below. Furthers resources will also be linked below.

What to Bring

Students (and participants from outside the class) should read the articles linked under resources below. By the 2/5 session, students should have created an account and signed in on this page as an attendee. Though it would be very helpful for students to have an idea of Wikipedia articles they would like to see improved by the 2/5 session (you can look at the links below for guidance in finding these articles), instructors are working on finding an article the group can contribute to together.

If you wish to work on a particular topic or article during the 2/5 session, you may do prior research and bring a bibliography with you. You can also bring a laptop to use during the session, though we are meeting in a computer lab with available machines.

Sign Up

Please make sure to RSVP for the local events. Once you have an account, make sure to add your name below.

Please just add your Wikipedia name to the list below with four tildas (~~~~). If you have comments, insert them after a dash.

Attendees

Sebastian Albagli

Lexinteractive (talk) Alexis Miller 02:27, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MissPicatrix (talk) A. Wijaya 03:18, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
MediaArtInfo (talk) 06:40, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
EMarctInfo (talk) 10:40, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ichenjulieko (talk) 08:29, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Suoluomendezhihui1234 (talk) 12:40, 19 Febrary 2015 (UTC)
Chapylee12 (talk) 08:50, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Jgold14 (talk) 03:16, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Regrets

Deckdeckdeck (talk) 18:36, 26 January 2015 (UTC) Super bummed to miss the seminar edit session, but I've added some links and suggestions for edits![reply]

Outcomes

List any articles created and/or edited during this Meetup here:

Sebastian Albagli: I added information on Marcia Tucker's early life and beginning of her career
MissPicatrix: I rearranged elements of Mendieta's page to clean up the flow of information (e.g. eliminated redundant sections). Added a "Death & Controversy" section, as well as more information to the "Works" section.
Example 2
Alexis Miller: I added more information about Suzanne lacy's Performance Art. I revised the first paragraph on her early performance art. I also created sections on her projects titled: In Morning and Rage, The Oakland Projects, and Three Weeks in January (Storying Rape).
MediaArtInfo (talk) 06:48, 19 February 2015 (UTC): Rachel Rosenthal's page - I added more information to aspects about her early life and her work, really trying to add more contextualization and depth. I hope that I added a bit more richness and flavor to her page so that readers understand the facts in a contextual manner and understand the complexities of her life and work. I took out one statement about her appearance that I felt was no longer relevant.[reply]
Emarc - I worked on Martha Rosler's page, specifically in her Exhibit section, adding info about her "Meta-Monumental Garage Sale" at MoMa. I also added some information about her life to give more depth to her page. On top of that, I edited some of the grammar and information throughout the page.
Julie Ko: I added the links between Judy Baca's works and their already-existed wikipedia pages, and I also requested to put pictures of her works onto her article.
Melody J.:I revised the early life section of Judy Chicago's page, correcting grammar mistakes and adding some more information to her page.
Chapman: I added more information about Yvonne Rainer's film Journeys From Berlin/1971 regarding its intentions.
Joshua: Researched Y. Rainer's biography, but did not make edits due to not finding any new or update-able information.