Inequities in Web 2.0: Let’s Tag About It
11.02.05The phenomena being called Web2.0 is disproportionately influenced by white men. Issues raised by anti-racist, anti-classist and disability and gender-rights activists in other contexts are just as relevant to this new technological and political development (Web2.0) as they are to any other.
There have been some very good articles written about this situation, including for example:
- Anil Dash - What It's Like at Web2.0
- Danah Boyd - The Biases of Links
- Halley Suitt - Blogher: He-Conferences and She-Conferences
- Mary Hodder - Favorite and not so Favorite Things About Web 2.0
So those are just some of the posts about these issues that have been commented on a lot. But how can a person find old and new blog posts, photos, podcasts or events about these subjects? I searched inside my own Furl.net and Del.icio.us archives and in the general archive for Del.icio.us/tag/web2.0+gender. Interestingly, there is really only one post referred to so far in Del.icio.us/tag/web2.0+race.
These conversations would be easier to find and keep up with if there was a common tag used. I propose this: webjustice2.0. Feel free to come up with some thing else, of course. But if that sounds good to you, then the following options are available:
- If you use the tag in any of the following:
del.icio.us (or any similar social bookmarking service that synchs with your del.icio.us account)
Furl.net Social Bookmarking
Technorati Blog Search
Flickr Photos
43Things Goal Making/Sharing
Upcoming.org Events, Owned by Yahoo!
Eventful.com Events not owned by Yahoo! - Then it will be delivered in this RSS feed: WebJustice2.0 RSS Feed
- If you'd like to display the 10 most recent items in the feed on your website (duplicates not removed right now) then you can copy and paste the following code into your template. Feel free to change anything you like. To see a sample of what it will look like, you can look at my blog's sidebar.
WebJustice2.0 Discussion<br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/SPQ1BO029H.js"><noscript><a href="http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/SPQ1BO029H.html">Click for "WebJustice2.0".</a> By <a href="http://www.feeddigest.com/">Feed Digest</a></noscript></script>
I am sending a link to this post to the authors of the above example articles and a few other people I think might be interested. This system should be easy to use, just subscribe to the RSS feed for tag and tag relevant items online. And of course if anyone wants to propose or use an alternate tag - there's absolutely nothing stopping you. I hope this will help the discussion by enabling easier, more thorough participation.
Technorati Tags: webjustice2.0, attention_streams, gender, Web2.0, race, disability, tagging, nptech, net2
November 2nd, 2005 at
Awesome idea, Marshall. I’d love to chat some more about this.
I’m going to go back through my posts and tag the appropriate ones with WebJustice2.0.
Tara
November 4th, 2005 at
I am not sure justice nails it.
WebEquality
or WebUniversalAccess
WebEnfranchisement
WebSuffrage
November 5th, 2005 at
[…] Inequeties in Web 2.0 The phenomena being called Web2.0 is disproportionately influenced by white men. Issues raised by anti-racist, anti-classist and disability and gender-rights activists in other contexts are just as relevant to this new technological and political development (Web2.0) as they are to any other. http://marshallk.com/inequities-in-web-20-lets-tag-about-it […]
November 13th, 2005 at
[…] Earlier this month I proposed using the tag WebJustice2.0 to designate something online as related to issues of inclusion in Web 2.0 - blog posts, events, images etc. related to the efforts to decrease the white male middle and upper class dominance of this emerging field. You can read about the WebJustice2.0 tag stream here. […]
November 21st, 2005 at
This is commendable, and I applaud your initiative.
However, I think you’re overlooking the significant body of work by Shelley Powers (at her blog “Burningbird”). It’d be nice to see her added to your list of examples (although I understand this is supposed to be a snapshot list, and not comprehensive).
If you need urls, I can email them to you, although she has categories and a search facility at her blog.
November 24th, 2005 at
Dear SourDuck, thanks for your comment last week on my post about the
WebJustice2.0 tag. I went into your del.icio.us archive and found
Shelley’s posts “When we are needed” and “follow up to when we are
needed” and tagged them webjustice2.0 in my archive, so they are now
included in the stream. Feel free to do the same with other posts of
hers or others if you see fit.
I remember looking around for key posts on Shelley’s site when I was
looking for examples, but I don’t remember why I didn’t select any in
particular. Looking in your del.icio.us archive to see which ones you
had saved was very helpful.
If you have any questions, suggestions or other thoughts at all about
the tag stream, please feel free to drop me a line.
Best of luck in all your endeavors and keep up the rockin’ work,
Marshall Kirkpatrick
December 30th, 2005 at
[…] I’m going to tag several of the pages above WebJustice2.0. (Check out that tagstream. Items submitted are slow and subscribers to the feed are way down this month. Is the idea not going to fly?) […]
January 9th, 2006 at
[…] 4. I like subscribing to tag search feeds on a variety of topics, be it a noun that I have an ongoing interest in (you know, a person, place or thing) or a group concept like the attention streams Nptech or WebJustice2.0. […]
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[…] Inequities in Web 2.0: Let’s Tag About It Conversations about injustice in web 2.0 would be easier to find and keep up with if there was a common tag used. I propose this: webjustice2.0 (tags: web2 gerechtigkeit feminismus genderblog gleichberechtigung gender rassismus socialbookmarks webjustice2.0) […]
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