Book overview. This edited collection explores theoretical and practical questions about multimodal, digital production through lenses of rhetoric/composition, digital writing studies, English studies, and the humanities.
Abstract. I present a framework and then engage in an exploration of how female, new media composers are taking hold of digital spaces to craft new products, make new knowledge, and contribute to a robust new media landscape. Implications point toward the ways in which digital networks potentially provide a space where women make new knowledge; identify and craft affiliations with other producers; and anchor themselves as creators, writers, and artists.
APA Citation: Devoss, Dànielle Nicole. (2011). Mothers and daughters of digital invention: Women, new media, and intellectual property. In Debra Journet, Cheryl E. Ball, & Ryan Trauman (Eds.), The new work of composing. Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. http://ccdigitalpress.org/nwc/chapters/devoss/
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DeVoss, Dànielle Nicole. (2008). Formidable females: Pink-collar workplaces, computers, and cultures of resistance. In Kristine Blair, Radhika Gajjala, & Christine Tulley (Eds.), Webbing cyberfeminist practice: Communities, pedagogies, and social action (pp. 345-384). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. Durack, Katherine T. (1997). Gender, technology, and the history of technical communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 6(3), 249-260. Giordano, R. (1988). From the frontier to the border: Women in data processing, 1940-1959. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the British Society for the History of Science and the History of Science Society (pp. 357-364). Manchester, UK. Gosling, Ju. (1998). My not-so-secret life as a cyborg. Retrieved February 2, 2009, from http://users.netmatters.co.uk/ju90/cylife.htm Halbert, Debora. (2006). Feminist interpretations of intellectual property. Journal of Gender, Social Policy, & the Law, 14(3), 431-460. Lenhart, Amanda, & Mary Madden. 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Madisonian.net: A Blog about Law, Technology, and Culture. Retrieved December 10, 2008, from http://madisonian.net/2007/08/02/nfl-professor-seltzer-and-the-dmca/ FURTHER READING I have rather artificially separated these suggested readings into three chunks: historical (which includes general analyses, research into, and critique of women and technology writ broadly), digital / networked (which moves into analyses, research, and critique of women’s work, interactions, and negotiations within networked spaces), and intellectual property. Historical Aschauer, Ann Brady. (1999). Tinkering with technological skill: An examination of the gendered uses of technologies. Computers and Composition, 16(1), 7-24. Benston, Margaret Lowe. (1988). Women’s voices/men’s voices: Technology as language. In Cheris Kramarae (Ed.), Technology and women’s voices: Keeping in touch (pp. 15-28). New York: Routledge. Cockburn, Cynthia. (1988). Machinery of dominance: Women, men and technical know-how. 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Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
Michigan State University