[WSIS CS-Plenary] Women in Action No. 1, 2004, issue on "Corporatised Media and ICT Structures and Systems"

[Aileen Familara]

The online version of Women in Action No. 1, 2004, issue on 
"Corporatised Media and ICT Structures and Systems" is now available at 
<http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/index.html>. The print edition 
will be off the press by the end of August 2004.

Women in Action No. 1, 2004
Theme: Corporatised Media and ICT Structures and Systems

Editorial: For Whom Media Speaks: The Paucity of Todays ICT Explosion
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/editorial.htm

Globalisation and Media: Making Feminist Sense
By Susanna George
Locates recent developments in mediathe fantabulous business mergers, 
the permeation of advertising in all of human activity, the ringside 
view of the Iraq warwithin the overall struggle against patriarchy.
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/susanna.htm

IT in India: Social Revolution or Approaching Implosion?
By Kalyani Menon-Sen
Warns against the dangers posed by the IT Revolution
including the numbers of women employed in call centres facetheir 
unused college education, abnormal working hours and consequently, 
compromised human interaction and relationships.
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/kalyani.htm

When Technology, Media and Globalisation Conspire: Old Threats, New 
Prospects
By Anita Gurumurthy
Speaks about the downsides of globalised ICTs and the actions that must 
be taken to counter these.
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/anita1.htm

False and Real Differences:Alternative and Mainstream Media in Latin 
America
By Maria Suárez Toro and Margaret Thompson
Relates how a womens organisation seized the potential of modern ICTs, 
introduced webcasts of its community radio programmes and captured a 
marketof women and menlooking for information other than that provided 
by mainstream media.
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/maria.htm

Choices We (Must) Make For Ourselves: Women and Transnational Media
By Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki
Analyses the methods of exclusion employed by the major media 
establishmentswhether those supportive of Americas agenda against the 
Muslim world, or those that seek to perpetuate the traditional, 
one-dimensional representations of Arab and Muslim women.
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/muthoni.htm

Media and ICT Systems, Globalisation, Militarism and Fundamentalisms
By Anuradha M. Chenoy
Dissects how media and ICTs are being used in India by nationalist 
groups to push their fundamentalist and militarist agenda. Such 
virtual 
recruitment
 of foot soldiers perpetuates not only womens subordination 
but also the ruling elites strategic political control.
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/anuradha.htm

Knowledge Economy: Does It Come with a Knowledge Society?
By Anita Gurumurthy
Presents the irony of a 
knowledge society
 in a context where ICTs are 
galloping but one-third of the population is illiterate and knowledge 
remains controlled by a few
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/anita2.htm

Recalling the Past, Looking to the Future
By Marilee Karl
Explores the changesbig and smallbrought about by the womens 
movements use of various communication technologies to forward gender 
equality; and identifies the issues that have fallen in the wayside
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/marilee.htm

Common Agenda, Different Methods: Womens Use of ICTs in Conflict 
Situations
By Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng
Examines how ICTs became a vehicle in Uganda for putting womens agenda 
on the international negotiating tables
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/ruth.htm

WILMA: Making a Difference
By Rhona O. Bauista
Describes the making of an ICT application that preserves information 
resources useful to womens movements and links feminists, activists and 
the public, with or without Internet connectivity
http://www.isiswomen.org/pub/wia/wia1-04/rhona.htm


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