Abstract
We are in an age increasingly shaped and inflected by digital and networked technologies, which can act to augment, amplify or disrupt existing discrimination, exclusion and inequality. Using the Feminist Principles of the internet as a framework, this article examines the different facets of the intersection between digitally networked technologies and feminism at the areas of economy, autonomy and data, as well as movement building. It calls for the recognition, exploration and participation of diverse actors in feminist and women’s movements into making a feminist internet.
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For example, proponents of the GNU General Public Licence for software development, one of the most widely adopted forms of F/LOSS licensing to date for opening up the process of software development and ownership.
Some examples include advocates of the Creative Commons license and the Design Science License.
Copyleft activists have engaged on these issues through their ‘access to knowledge’ movement.
For example, http://navdanya.org, accessed 19 January 2017.
At an Imagine A Feminist internet workshop, Malaysia, 2015.
Principle 7, Feminist Principles of the internet. Available: http://feministinternet.net/, accessed 19 January 2017.
Principle 7, Feminist Principles of the internet. Available: http://feministinternet.net/, accessed 19 January 2017.
For example, http://evrydayfeminism.tumblr.com/, accessed 19 January 2017.
For example, http://theladiesfinger.com/ and http://www.adventuresfrom.com/, accessed 19 January 2017.
Principle 4, Feminist Principles of the internet. https://www.feministinternet.net, accessed 19 January 2017.
At a workshop during the 2014 session of the Committee on the Status of Women.
http://internethalloffame.org/inductees/kanchana-kanchanasut, accessed 19 January 2017.
http://internethalloffame.org/blog/2017/01/16/ida-holz-uruguayan-internet, accessed 19 January 2017.
http://internethalloffame.org/inductees/anriette-esterhuysen, accessed 19 January 2017.
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Kee, J.s. Imagine a Feminist Internet. Development 60, 83–89 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41301-017-0137-2
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