Women@Internet: Creating New Cultures in Cyberspace

* Contents * Preface: Freedom to Create: Women's Agenda for Cyberspace - Lourdes Arizpe * Cyborg Melody: An introduction to Women on the Net (WoN) - Wendy Harcourt * Part 1: Moving from Cyberspace to Cyberculture * 1. Crossing Borders: From crystal to tennis shoes- Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius * 2. Gender, place and networks: A political ecology of cyberculture- Arturo Escobar * 3. Virtual Voices: Real lives - Gillian Youngs * 4. Internet, Emergent Culture and Design - Silvia Austerlic * 5. Exclusion and Communication in the Information Era: From silences to global conversations - Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojevic * Part 2: Women Creating Global Communication * 6. Mapping Women's Global Communications and Networking - Alice Mastrangelo Gittler * 7. Global Networking for Change: Experiences from the APC Women's Programme - Edie Farwell, Peregrine Wood, Maureen James and Karen Banks * 8. Shifting Agendas at GK97: Women and international policy on ICT - Sophia Huyer * 9. Global Business, National Politics, Community Planning: Are women building the linkages? - Nidhi Tandon * Part 3: Women's Voices on the Internet * 10. They Speak, But Who Listens? - Laura Agustin * 11. Information Technology and Cyberculture: The case of Zanzibar - Fatma Alloo * 12. The Ho'okele Netwarriors in the Liquid Continent - Kekula P. Bray-Crawford * 13. Staking Their Claim: Electronic networking and training in Asia - Rhona O. Bautista * 14. Empowering on-line conversations: A pioneering Australian project to link rural and urban women - June Lennie, Margaret Grace, Leonie Daws and Lyn Simpson * 15. ALAI: A Latin American experience in social networking - Sally Burch * 16. Information and Communication Technologies and Identity Politics in Iran - Farideh Farhi * 17. Unveiling the Arab Women's Voice through the Net - Lamis Alshejni * Conclusion: Local/Global Encounters: WoN weaving together the virtual and actual - Wendy Harcourt