Thesis Outline First Draft

I. Introduction

1. Background:

This summer I got an email which was an open call for participation in The Eclectic Tech Carnival (/ETC), a gathering of feminists who critically explore and develop everyday skills and information technologies in the context of free speech, free software and open hardware. While reading the description, I wondered why this international group of people, identified by their gender, have the need to gather in their own spaces in order to speak about computing, technology, art and activism.

2. Thesis Statement:

There is a need for feminists and activists to come together in order to discuss and shed light on the problematic issues of Technology and Software development, as gender-biased fields. In order to imagine alternative inclusive technolonesses of collective knowledge production and Do It Together practices that feminist and activist groups use, are documented, archived, shared and protected in order to learn from the histories of their movements and shape their future imperatives.