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Hermione Granger Fan Tributes
I posted seven here, just a fraction of what is available around the Internets. -Ann Bartow
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Paul Secunda, “Blogging While (Publicly) Employed: Some First Amendment Implications”
Abstract: While private-sector employees do not have First Amendment free speech protection for their blogging activities relating to the workplace, public employees may enjoy some measure of protection depending on the nature of their blogging activity. The essential difference between … Continue reading
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What Your Phone Can Do For You
I take back whatever I’ve said about the iPhone’s applications. Who knew that the iPhone could be a, well, er . . . personal massager? Betcha someone in Alabama came up with this app. -Bridget Crawford
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The Obameter: Tracking Obama’s Campaign Promises
From Politifact: PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, In the Works or Stalled. Once we find action is … Continue reading
A conference entitled “The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life” will be hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women in New York City on February 28, 2009
“The Politics of Reproduction” will focus on the global social, economic and political repercussions of new forms of reproduction, including assisted reproductive technology (ART) and transnational adoption. These new technologies have created a “baby business” that is largely unregulated and … Continue reading
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That “Report on Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies”
A production of the Berkman Institute for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, it’s available here. Below is an excerpt from the Executive Summary: At the outset, the Task Force recognized that we could not determine how technologies … Continue reading
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Cyber Sexual Harassment
Podcast of a radio show featuring fantastic feminist law prof Danielle Citron, plus Latoya Peterson of Racialicious and Jill Filipovic of Feminste, is available here. Danielle’s referenced law review article, Cyber Civil Rights, can be downloaded here. Below is the … Continue reading
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Watch out for “Fake College Facebook Groups”
Danielle Citron explains here at Concurring Opinions.
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“If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet …”
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Track Your Period the Feminist App Way
Search iPhone applications for the word “feminist,” and here is what you’ll find: 1. Period Tracker 2. Par 72 Golf 3. Twelve Steps Companion 4. iMensies [sic] (Period Calendar) 5. IMC Calc (BMI Calc). The market for feminist apps might … Continue reading
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Facebook v. Breastfeeding
Good overview of the controversy at Jezebel.
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A case of sexual harassment and mistaken identity in the digital age?
This “First Person” column in the Chron describes what the pseudonymous author asserts was a false charge of sexual harassment. His claim is that he was charged with sexually harassing a student who was also a university employee. The student, … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Losh, “Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes”
From the MIT Press page: Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor moderated chats, blogs, digital video clips, online tutorials, videogames, and virtual tours of national landmarks. Sophisticated online marketing campaigns target citizens with messages … Continue reading
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Colorado man charged with criminal libel over Craigslist posts suggesting his former lover traded sexual acts for legal services from her attorney
Yahoo News account here. Colorado is one of 17 states with a criminal libel statute, according to this site.
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Kimberly Mutcherson, “Making Mommies: Law, Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis, and the Complications of Pre-Motherhood”
The abstract: The article focuses on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (“PGD”), a technology that allows health care providers and potential parents to screen embryos for a range of characteristics prior to implanting them in a woman’s uterus. Many potential parents use … Continue reading
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“Porn in a flash”
That’s the title of this recent Salon article. Here’s the first paragraph: On a warm summer day two years ago, a 16-year-old girl put on a skirt and headed to the SuperTarget in her hometown of Tulsa, Okla. As she … Continue reading
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Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law
From the Program’s homepage: Lawyers need to be knowledgeable participants in the cultural and social debates such films provoke about the significance of our roles in the creation and maintenance of a just, democratic society. To fulfill this role, we … Continue reading
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Dean Saul Levmore on”The Internet’s Anonymity Problem”
Here, via Leiter.
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Cheryl B. Preston, “Internet Porn, ICANN, and Families: A Call to Action”
The abstract: Although the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) technically does not regulate Internet content, its day-to-day decisions consistently influence not only the structure of the Internet, but its content as well. ICANN policies concerning the approval … Continue reading
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Wikipedia and Feminism
As of this past September, Wikipedia has been cited by U.S. courts almost 300 times, according to Lee Peoples’ new article, The Citation of Wikipedia in American Judicial Opinions. It’s frightening to think that judges are according wikipedia so … Continue reading
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Query For Readers With An Interest In Internet Governance
Is anyone interested in being involved in a new constituency at ICANN for non-commercial Internet users? ICANN is looking to add a constituency to increase the breadth of the stakeholder representation on the Generic Name Supporting Organization (GNSO) council, … Continue reading
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“U.S. Judge Kozinski Accused of Ethics Breach by Lawyer Critic”
This article is a fairly detailed overview of the Kozinski porn story, written by Cynthia Cotts of Bloomberg News. And I am quoted in it. Cotts contacted me and asked if I would give her my opinion about some of … Continue reading
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There is no anonymity in cyberspace, part whatever.
The authorities figured out who hacked Sarah Palin’s e-mail account quite easily. When law enforcement refuse to help women victimized by internet harassers and stalkers, it is because they don’t want to, not because they can’t. –Ann Bartow
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2008 World Stem Cell Summit in Madison, Wisconsin
This week stem cell scientists from across the globe are meeting at the University of Wisconsin at Madison to discuss a multitude of issues they face including the scientific, business, legal, ethical and regulatory issues these doctors, clinicians and researchers … Continue reading
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For the Geeky, Nerdy Feminist Law Profs
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Privacy Issues Highlighted in the September issue of Scientific American
Via Dan Solove: Daniel J. Solove, Do Social Networks Bring the End of Privacy? Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau, Internet Eavesdropping: A Brave New World of Wiretapping Steven Ashley, Digital Surveillance: Tools of the Spy Trade Katherine Albrecht, How … Continue reading
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“IL Governor Signs Law to Track Domestic Batterers Using GPS Technology”
Ms. Magazine reports: llinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) signed a measure into law that allows authorities to track convicted domestic violence offenders via satellite using GPS technology. The new law allows judges to order that offenders wear a GPS device … Continue reading
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“Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.”
BBC account here. We don’t embed YouTube clips here at FLP but we do link to them sometimes. Hope checking them out hasn’t gotten anyone in trouble. The Order is accessible here. The court apparently concluded that the Video Privacy … Continue reading
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Thomas McGarity and Wendy Wagner, “Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research”
From here: In their book, McGarity and Wagner describe how scientists can find their research blocked, or find themselves threatened with financial ruin. Corporations, plaintiff attorneys, think tanks, even government agencies have been caught suppressing or distorting research on the … Continue reading
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Men Hate Us, Another Reminder
Interview with Jessica Valenti of Feministing here at Moblogic, is followed by large numbers of mostly horrible comments.
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James Grimmelmann, “Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law”
An Opinionated Primer that provides an excellent overview of current copyright issues concerning access to laws for intelligent people who have inexplicably failed to devote their lives to the study of copyright law. Via Laboratorium, via Froomkin. –Ann Bartow
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Stop Violence against Women website looking for volunteers!
The Advocates for Human Rights is seeking volunteers to create content for a website that is accessed by people all over the world. The Stop Violence against Women website (StopVAW) is an online resource with more than 4,000 pages of … Continue reading
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Are Blogs Bad News?
Law profs Cass Sunstein and Eugene Volokh debate this here.
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Ann Bartow, “Pornography, Coercion, and Copyright Law 2.0″
Abstract: The lack of regulation of the production of pornography in the United States leaves pornography performers exposed to substantial risks. Producers of pornography typically respond to attempts to regulate pornography as infringements upon free speech. At the same time, … Continue reading
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“Free Speech & the Menace of Hysteria”
I recently returned from a conference where one of the panels I spoke on concerned “hate speech” and the other addressed related topics. The audience skewed heavily libertarian, but the conversations sparked by the panels still seemed fairly productive. However, … Continue reading
“UK FEMINIST BLOGGERS”
Looks like a very cool new Google group.
Posted in Feminism and Technology, Feminist Blogs Of Interest, Sisters In Other Nations
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On Gender and Science
Echidne has a great post here unpacking the sexism infusing this article which argues that women just “self select” away from science. Below is an excerpt (but go read the whole thing): … To see what stinks in all this, … Continue reading
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Worldmapper
Allison at Economic Woman gives an overview here of the Worldmapper website, writing in part: A number of maps reflect the status of women around the globe. To get a sense of where the wage gap is widest, flip between … Continue reading
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Teenager Makes Rape Accusation Via YouTube Because She Says No One Else Will Listen
Whoa. Jezebel has the story and the clip.
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Conference May 23rd in NYC: New Dilemmas in Medicine
Conference: New Dilemmas in Medicine, co-hosted by the IHEU-Appignani Bioethics Center & Bioethics International Where: 777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd Fl., New York, NY When: May 23, 2008 9.30 am – 7.00 pm Topics include: “To Have the Best Child … Continue reading
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“Facebook, the world’s second-largest social networking Web site, is adding more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.”
That is the first sentence from this article, which also notes in pertinent part: The changes include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users’ ability to search online for subscribers under 18 and joining an existing task … Continue reading
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There is an “Anarchafeminist Channel” on YouTube.
Here. Via Screaming Into The Void.
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“Data show extent of sexism in physics”
Experiment at Fermilab gave women fewer opportunities to present at conferences. Women are poorly represented in physics, making up just 10% of faculty in the United States, for example, but the reasons for this have proved contentious. Now a particle … Continue reading
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“Women’s bodies: Just like open-source software!”
A friend sent me links to posts describing sci-fi/tech conferences in which a group of men went around asking the women in attendance whether they could touch their breasts. Yes I am aware of how strange that sounds. Rather than … Continue reading
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Alison Stein on “Women Lawyers Blog for Workplace Equality: Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method”
Alison I. Stein (J.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School) has posted to ssrn her article, “Women Lawyers Blog for Workplace Equality: Blogging as a Feminist Legal Method.” Here is the abstract: Legal scholars and academic commentators have … Continue reading
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“Person on the Street” Interviewer Describes Significant Differences Between Women and Men
Her observations can be viewed here at Mob Logic TV. I think there are valid reasons that women fear media exposure and the mockery (or worse) that may follow, but an unwillingness to take risks does keep us less visible.
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Lecture by Prof. Ben Barres on “the obstacles faced by women in academic science and what individuals and institutions can do to increase opportunities in the sciences for women.”
Viewable (with RealPlayer) here. From the related website: Professor Barres brings a unique perspective to this discussion: Professor Barres is transgender, and has experienced life as both a female and as a male scientist. His seminal article in the Journal … Continue reading
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Newsweek/Surrogacy II
Yesterday I noted the current Newsweek cover story on surrogacy. Here’s a bit more to think about in that regard. I’m prepared to assume that the practice of surrogacy is useful. (Even if I weren’t, I’d have to acknowledge it … Continue reading
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Still More Misogyny
This time from spoiled rich kids at a private high school in NYC. In about five years, give or take, some of them will be enrolling in law schools, but hopefully not mine. Via Jezebel. –Ann Bartow
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Surrogacy on the Cover of Newsweek
In yet another sign that there’s a resurgence of interest in this topic, surrogacy is the cover story in this week’s Newsweek magazine. Interestingly, the focus is on the women who are surrogates. I think this consistent with recent press … Continue reading
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