A feminist Internet under construction
With the help of sixteen students from the University of the Arts in London, Dr. Charlotte Webb has started a project called Feminist Internet. Deliberately provocative, using the word “feminist” in the title, the movement is based on the premise that the internet as we know it is deeply unequal for women and all minority groups.
For Dr. Webb, equality on the web means equal rights to freedom of expression, privacy, data protection and access to the internet, regardless of race, class, gender, sexual identity, age, beliefs or abilities.
The Feminist Internet website explains that “many of society’s inequalities are encoded in its structures, processes and communities. Whether it’s digital platforms allowing online abuse against women, the lack of workforce diversity in the tech sector, biased data collection privileges or the sexist naming of bots initiating conversations on the web (chatbot).”
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