Dr. Dene Grigar, Assistant Professor TWUMOO Venus Login Back to class home page Email me with questions or comments   Course Materials and Daily Activities

Friday, July 16 Social and Cultural Contexts Course materials for today: Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace" Peterson's "Sex and the Cybergirl" Bruckman's "Finding One's Own" Gilboa's "Elites, Lamers, Narcs, and Whores" "Gender and Technology Bibliography." http://mcs.open.ac.uk/gentech/bilbio.html Marcy Bauman. "Review." http://www.umd.umich.edu/~marcyb/ww.html Robin Morris. "Review." http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~ramorris/wirewom.html Elizabeth Weise. "A Whole New Female World Online, in Just Three Years." In-class: 1. Discuss all essays 2. Link themes to issues raised in technofeminism To prepare for next time: "Cyberpunk Info." (On reserve in Library) William Gibson. Neuromancer. NY: Ace Books, 1984. Vanessa Ghaderi and Eva Zydek. "Neuromancer Synopsis." http://www.mggym- horb.fds.bw.schule.de/e&v.htm "Links to Cyberpunk Related Sites." http://www.georgetown.edu/users/garrettj/projects/newflesh/links.htm "Searchable Index for the Book Neuromancer." http://uranium.chem.umn.edu/~steve/neuro.html "Resources on William Gibson." http://www.lib.loyno.edu/bibl/wgibson.htm ***Students are reminded that the class moves online during the week of July 19-23, 1999. We meet f2f again on Monday, July 26. Contact Me Back to Daily Course Materials Back to Front Page Back to Home Page